The US Conceding Alone Would Lead to Successful Negotiations

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power

Photo: The talks are aimed at bringing Iran back into full compliance with the 2015 deal and paving the way for the US to rejoin. Source: Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

LUND, Sweden (IDN) — The negotiations over Iran’s supposed nuclear bomb-building abilities seem to be stuck in a rut. On December 27, they re-started once again. Given the detailed undertakings by Iran made in the agreement negotiated by the administration of President Barack Obama before President Donald Trump sabotaged it, it should have only been a hop, skip and a jump to forge a final agreement once President Joe Biden decided to resurrect it. [2021-12-28] 

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Stockholm Initiative Determined to Achieve the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – Italian

Iniziativa di Stoccolma determinata ad ottenere l’eliminazione delle armi nucleari

Di Ramesh Jaura

BERLINO | STOCCOLMA (IDN) —  L’Iniziativa di Stoccolma di 16 nazioni per il disarmo nucleare ha sollecitato la Decima Conferenza di Revisione del Trattato di Non Proliferazione Nucleare (TNP) in arrivo dal 4 al 28 gennaio 2022, “a dimostrare la leadership politica, onorare gli impegni e i risultati raggiunti ai sensi del Trattato, e a imporre un percorso decisivo verso un mondo libero dalle armi nucleari, nell’interesse di preservare l’umanità”.

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Stockholm Initiative Determined to Achieve the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

By Ramesh Jaura

Photo: Gathering of Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament against the backdrop of the city of Stockholm (August 2020) showing the Kastellet, Vasa Museum, and Nordic Museum.

BERLIN | STOCKHOLM (IDN) — The 16-nation Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament has urged the upcoming Tenth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) from January 4-28, 2022, “to demonstrate political leadership, honour commitments and achievements made under the Treaty, and set ourselves on a decisive path towards a world free of nuclear weapons, in the interest of preserving humanity”. [2021-12-25-22] ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN

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Stockholm Initiative Determined to Achieve the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

By Ramesh Jaura

Photo: Gathering of Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament against the backdrop of the city of Stockholm (August 2020) showing the Kastellet, Vasa Museum, and Nordic Museum.

BERLIN | STOCKHOLM (IDN) — The 16-nation Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament has urged the upcoming Tenth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) from January 4-28, 2022, “to demonstrate political leadership, honour commitments and achievements made under the Treaty, and set ourselves on a decisive path towards a world free of nuclear weapons, in the interest of preserving humanity”. [2021-12-25-22] ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN

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Stockholm Initiative Determined to Achieve the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – Norwegian

Stockholm-initiativet målrettet om å eliminere atomvåpen

av Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN | STOCKHOLM (IDN) — Stockholm-initiativet for kjernefysisk nedrustning, som støttes av 16 nasjoner, har oppfordret den kommende tiende tilsynskonferansen til Ikkespredningsavtalen (NPT) den 4.-28. januar 2022, til å “vise politisk lederskap, overholde forpliktelser og oppnåelser som har blitt gjort som en del av avtalen og få oss inn på en målrettet vei mot en verden uten atomvåpen, for å bevare menneskeheten.”

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An Important TPNW Signal from Germany—But Nothing More

Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf

This article was issued by Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission.

Photo: Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister. Photocosmos1/Shutterstock

BONN (IDN) — The new German coalition government will not rock the foundations of German foreign and security policy. It wants to remain a reliable partner in the EU and NATO. But it sends an important signal for disarmament and arms control efforts. The 177-page coalition agreement contains the following passage on the TPNW: [2021-12-22]

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A New Cold War Between Russia and The West Is Unnecessary

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power

Photo: US President Biden met virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on 15 November 2021. Source: Los Angeles Times.

LUND, Sweden (IDN) — George Orwell, the author of “Animal Farm”, the satire on how a dictatorship can slowly but steadily evolve in a democratic society, and “1984”, a novel about a future dystopian dictatorship, was the first person to use the phrase “Cold War” in a 1945 newspaper article, written just after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [2021-12-21]

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The Challenge of Nuclear Submarine Proliferation

 

原子力潜水艦拡散の危険

【ニューヨークIDN＝J・ナストラニス、タリク・ラウフ】

海軍が保有する核燃料を検証し、高濃縮ウランを低濃縮ウランに転換することについて、法律・技術・政策の側面から多くの専門家が真摯な検討を重ねてきているが、残念なことに現実は、高濃縮ウランを使うどの海軍も、それを低濃縮ウランへと転換したり、国際原子力機関（IAEA）を初めとした査察官を１スカンジナビアマイル（１０キロメートルに相当）に近づけることにすら関心を持っていない。

米海軍は、ノーチラス級の原子力推進攻撃潜水艦（SSN）に始まって、高濃縮ウランを使った燃料と原子力船推進用原子炉の先陣を切ってきた。１９５５年１月１７日、ユージン・ウィルキンソン指揮の下、米潜水艦「ノーチラス」（SSN-571）が原子力艦船として初就航した。ウェスティンハウス社製７０MWthの加圧水型原子炉（S2W）を推進力としていた。ウィルキンソンは大西洋潜水艦隊司令官に「原子力にて航行中」という歴史的なメッセージを打電した。以来、艦船推進と海軍技術におけるこの革新は、今日まで続いている。

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Mayors for Peace Say the Danger of Nuclear War Is Real and Growing

By Mayors for Peace

The following is the text of an Open Letter Issued by Mayors for Peace to NPT States Parties.

Photo: Protest march in 2015. Credit: Mayors for Peace.

HIROSHIMA (IDN) — On behalf of Mayors for Peace, a global non-governmental organization with 8,059 member cities, we are writing to express our views prior to the NPT Review Conference that will open next January in New York.

We urge all participants to recall the solemn historical circumstances facing this conference. The use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki had catastrophic humanitarian consequences. [2021-12-18]

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Middle East Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone, Long Elusive, is Making Progress, say Experts

待ち望まれた中東非核兵器地帯、進展を見せる

【ニューヨークIDN＝タリフ・ディーン】

政治的、軍事的に激動の中東に非核兵器地帯を創設するという提案が長らく実現できずにいる。１９６７年以来、ラテンアメリカ・カリブ地域、南太平洋、東南アジア、アフリカ、中央アジアと、世界の５か所に非核兵器地帯が創設されてきた。

１１月２９日から１２月３日まで開催された第２回「核兵器及びその他の大量破壊兵器のない中東地帯の創設に関する国連会議」で、国連のアントニオ・グテーレス事務総長は、既存の５つの地帯は国連の１９３の加盟国の６０％を占めており、南半球のほとんどをカバーしていると指摘した。

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