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1. Faith Communities Sound a Clarion Call for Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... weapons." SGI Buddhist association links over 12 million practitioners around the world. It has been engaged in efforts to promote the abolition of nuclear weapons for over sixty years. The full text ...

Created on 04 May 2019

2. High School Students' Conference Stimulates Youth Engagement in Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the two countries’ cooperation at a time when the relationship between these two countries is at a post-Cold War low. Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School that has been actively promoting nuclear ...

Created on 28 April 2019

3. UN Eager to Advance Commitment to Nuclear Non-Proliferation

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... “The prospect of the use of nuclear weapons is higher than it has been in generations,” warned Nakamitsu. However, she added that whatever new arms control and disarmament approaches in the twenty-first ...

Created on 23 April 2019

4. UN Eager to Advance Commitment to Nuclear Non-Proliferation

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... “The prospect of the use of nuclear weapons is higher than it has been in generations,” warned Nakamitsu. However, she added that whatever new arms control and disarmament approaches in the twenty-first ...

Created on 23 April 2019

5. New Attempt to Tackle Nuclear Proliferation Threat in the Middle East

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... been consigned to oblivion until the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) decided  in December 2018 "to entrust to the Secretary-General the convening" of an international ...

Created on 22 April 2019

6. New Attempt to Tackle Nuclear Proliferation Threat in the Middle East

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... been consigned to oblivion until the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) decided  in December 2018 "to entrust to the Secretary-General the convening" of an international ...

Created on 22 April 2019

7. Eminent Buddhist Leader Urges Halt to Nuclear Weapons and Killer Robots

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... The TPNW has so far been signed by 70 states and ratified by 23 states since it was adopted at the UN in July 2017. Even though it has long been said that it is impossible to prohibit nuclear weapons, ...

Created on 19 April 2019

8. African Nations Can Choose Their Own Destiny

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... armed conflict that could have seen each use nuclear weapons against the other. Had they done so, the devastating consequences would not have been confined to South-East Asia. Experts have calculated ...

Created on 14 April 2019

9. South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that all of South Africa’s nuclear weapons had been dismantled. South Africa has been champion a world without nuclear weapons ever since. On April 11, 1996, the ...

Created on 13 April 2019

10. South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal

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... By 1994, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that all of South Africa’s nuclear weapons had been dismantled. South Africa has been champion a world without nuclear weapons ever since. ...

Created on 13 April 2019

11. Call for Renewed U.S.-Russian Strategic Dialogue

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and Canadian Studies Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN) and held at the Gorkachev Institute in Moscow. Previous conferences in this series have been co-organized by ISKRAN, the Arms ...

Created on 12 April 2019

12. 2020 Trump Budget Aims to Boost U.S. Nuclear Capabilities

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... in support of” developing a new SLCM, but the specific amount has not been announced. Such an analysis is one of the first steps the Pentagon takes in the usually lengthy process to acquire a new weapons ...

Created on 03 April 2019

13. Not Collusion with Russia but Trump’s Confrontational Policies Threaten Peace

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – President Donald Trump has been exonerated of collusion with Russia. As I wrote a while back, I expected this conclusion from the investigation ...

Created on 26 March 2019

14. Beyond the U.S.-North Korean Summits in Singapore and Hanoi

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... U.S. schedule for February 28 included a signing ceremony – suggesting that the Trump administration anticipated that reaching some type of agreement may have been possible – it is not clear if the ceremony ...

Created on 22 March 2019

15. Germany Backs UN Chief in Countering Autonomous Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... control regimes. "We are especially concerned about the future of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which has been crucial for security in Europe for over thirty years. We reiterate our urgent ...

Created on 17 March 2019

16. Countering Challenges Affecting Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... infrastructure that has been indispensable to global security. Second, the design and acquisition of new weapon technologies with unclear and potentially dangerous applications is outpacing our normative ...

Created on 16 March 2019

17. Strategic Realities Impeding Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... treaties and agreements on different aspects of nuclear armaments have been successfully concluded, all of them mainly aimed at curbing the proliferation of atomic weapons. Bilateral agreements between ...

Created on 13 March 2019

18. The Trump-Kim Hanoi Summit Disappointing But Not Devastating

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... If so, that should have been anticipated well before his arrival in Hanoi and his team should have had a plan to achieve some tangible progress despite that demand. If not, the summit should not have occurred. ...

Created on 07 March 2019

19. Ushering in an Era of Peace and Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... conflict and other reasons, and trade disputes impacting the global economy. Besides, the United Nations has been calling for urgent action on disarmament. SGI, the world's largest Buddhist lay organization ...

Created on 03 March 2019

20. South Africa: From Nuclear Armed State to Disarmament Hero

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Africa’s nuclear weapons had been dismantled. South Africa has been a champion for a world without nuclear weapons ever since. In 1996, they joined other African nations in declaring Africa a nuclear-weapons-free ...

Created on 28 February 2019