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1. 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

2. IAEA Keen to Enhance Nuclear Security in Africa

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Reinhard Jacobsen VIENNA (IDN) – Enhancing regulatory framework for nuclear security in Africa has been on the agenda of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), nuclear watchdog of the United ...

Created on 25 February 2019

3. UN Warns Against Emerging Hypersonic Weapon Technologies

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... a decade in general, and as early as later in 2019 in one case, authors of the study caution. In addition to these three States, it has been reported that Australia, France, India and Japan have conducted ...

Created on 24 February 2019

4. On the Precipice of a Multipolar Qualitative Nuclear Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the matters that are most germane to this body. Your responsibility as the single disarmament negotiating forum has rarely been greater. I welcome the constructive deliberations generated by the draft ...

Created on 23 February 2019

5. Europe Ventures to Speak Up Against USA

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... right-wing populism around the world, and the rapidly brewing “regime change” in Venezuela, to name a few. International security has been further threatened by Trump’s upending of the carefully crafted ...

Created on 22 February 2019

6. Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... multilateral machinery is urgently needed to ensure the elimination of the threat posed to every nation’s security by the existence of nuclear weapons. The Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament has been ...

Created on 06 February 2019

7. Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

(Project Articles)

... multilateral machinery is urgently needed to ensure the elimination of the threat posed to every nation’s security by the existence of nuclear weapons. The Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament has been ...

Created on 06 February 2019

8. Next Steps Out Of The INF Treaty Crisis

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... agreement. Diplomatic options that could bring Russia back into compliance are possible but have not yet been explored. Each side appears to be more interested in winning the blame game than taking the ...

Created on 02 February 2019

9. Trump’s Missile Defence Buildup Plans Are Dangerous

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... are unaffordable, unworkable, and massively destabilizing. The review states that no decision has yet been made on whether to deploy a third GMD site and that the location for a potential site “will ...

Created on 30 January 2019

10. Time Is Running Out For Sensible Decision-Making On Missile Defences

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Technology, America’s leading scientific university, an expert on NATO’s nuclear policy, says: "All the tests have been characterised by extraordinary efforts to eliminate all objects that could possibly ...

Created on 29 January 2019

11. Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Sustainable Development: Buddhist Leader Urges Increased Role For Youth

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) network of universities has been highlighted in a wide-ranging proposal by Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist movement. ...

Created on 28 January 2019

12. New U.S. Report Focuses On Possible Future Iranian ICBM

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... a decision to build the site has not yet been made. While Iran’s conventionally-armed ballistic missiles pose a regional threat, the argument that the United States must build a third GBI site to counter ...

Created on 25 January 2019

13. UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... have been United Nations disarmament fellows. India has been one of the most active participants in the programme. The subsequent career paths of these fellows stand as an impressive testament both to ...

Created on 23 January 2019

14. UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament

(Project Articles)

... have been United Nations disarmament fellows. India has been one of the most active participants in the programme. The subsequent career paths of these fellows stand as an impressive testament both to ...

Created on 23 January 2019

15. Report Advising Sweden Not To Join Nuclear Ban Treaty Disappoints ICAN

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... one-sided report by Lars Erik Lundin, which mainly repeats many of the same misconceptions about the TPNW that have been debunked time and time again,” says Executive Director Beatrice Fihn. “We look ...

Created on 19 January 2019

16. The Guterres Disarmament Agenda: Continuity And Change

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... maintain that the “grand bargain” in the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) has not been implemented. In frustration, many in civil society, working with several governments, are promoting the newly ...

Created on 15 January 2019

17. Pyongyang And Washington Do Not Speak The Same Language

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the establishment of working groups, but there has been little evidence that these developments are being realized. Still, Pompeo described the negotiations thus far as a “great process” in a December ...

Created on 13 January 2019

18. The INF Treaty Crisis Is A Global Security Problem

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... have been deployed in western Russia. This would also mean forgoing Trump’s plans for a new ground-launched, INF Treaty-prohibited missile. Because the United States and its NATO allies can already deploy ...

Created on 10 January 2019

19. Time To Leave The Nuclear Age, Create A Green Planet At Peace

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  A burgeoning number of cities, states, and parliamentarians around the world have been enrolled in the campaign to call on their governments to support the new treaty. In the U.S. Congress, however, ...

Created on 09 January 2019

20. Time To Leave The Nuclear Age, Create A Green Planet At Peace

(Project Articles)

...  A burgeoning number of cities, states, and parliamentarians around the world have been enrolled in the campaign to call on their governments to support the new treaty. In the U.S. Congress, however, ...

Created on 09 January 2019