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1. Test-Ban Treaty Will Produce Tangible Benefits for Humankind

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Conference in Astana. Following are detailed excerpts from Dr Zerbo's remarks to the General Assembly. The five day Conference, entitled 'Remembering the past, looking into the future', provided a ...

Created on 06 September 2018

2. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... during the five-day 2018 Youth International Conference of the CTBTO Youth Group and the Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) – from August 28 to September 2 – also calls on all States "to continue the moratoria ...

Created on 30 August 2018

3. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Project Articles)

... during the five-day 2018 Youth International Conference of the CTBTO Youth Group and the Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) – from August 28 to September 2 – also calls on all States "to continue the moratoria ...

Created on 30 August 2018

4. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Conference (Summit) on Nuclear Disarmament originally scheduled for May 2018. However, according to Alyn Ware – co-chair, World Future Council Disarmament Commission – pro-nuclear forces managed to have ...

Created on 20 August 2018

5. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Project Articles)

... Conference (Summit) on Nuclear Disarmament originally scheduled for May 2018. However, according to Alyn Ware – co-chair, World Future Council Disarmament Commission – pro-nuclear forces managed to have ...

Created on 20 August 2018

6. Trump and Putin Can Put the Brakes on a New, Potentially More Dangerous, Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... D.C. (IDN-INPS) – The much-anticipated July 16 summit meeting in Helsinki between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin did not go well for the United States. In a news conference following ...

Created on 07 August 2018

7. A U.S.-Russia Summit That Left Trump In The Hot Seat

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... [IDN-InDepthNews – 21 July 2018] Photo: Vladimir Putin (right) and Donald Trump (left) at a news conference after their summit meeting in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. Credit: en.kremlin.ru IDN is flagship ...

Created on 21 July 2018

8. NPT Proves To Be An Exercise In Bad Faith As It Turns 50

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... 50 years since the NPT states promised “good faith” efforts to disarm, and the required Review and Extension conference 25 years ago, which since then has instituted substantive review conferences every ...

Created on 03 July 2018

9. Experts Accentuate the Significance of Trump-Putin Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... for conflict resolution and common security, such as the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe," which is now called the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). "As such, ...

Created on 30 June 2018

10. A Call To 'Action Now' On United Nations Disarmament Agenda

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... UN Conference on Disarmament last adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996. All efforts and initiatives aimed at making the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons possible, including ...

Created on 18 June 2018

11. Substance Eludes Kim-Trump Historic Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... “denuclearization” is completed. At a press conference in Seoul a day after the meeting the secretary admitted that the implementation of the deal will not be easy, but added that the United States hoped ...

Created on 16 June 2018

12. The Alphabet Soup NPT, CTBT, NBT

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Paolo Cotta-Ramusino The writer is Secretary-General of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Pugwash), an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures ...

Created on 08 June 2018

13. UN Chief's Disarmament Agenda Faces Rough Waters

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... is unmistakable. The General Assembly had agreed just a month earlier on April 26 that the United Nations high-level international conference on nuclear disarmament stands postponed indefinitely. The ...

Created on 07 June 2018

14. UN Chief's Disarmament Agenda Faces Rough Waters

(Project Articles)

... is unmistakable. The General Assembly had agreed just a month earlier on April 26 that the United Nations high-level international conference on nuclear disarmament stands postponed indefinitely. The ...

Created on 07 June 2018

15. What Kazakhstan's Nuclear Legacy Means For CTBTO

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Marzhan Nurzhan The CTBTO Youth Group (CYG) holds its second international conference in Kazakh capital city Astana from August 28-30, 2018. The author is a CYG member from Kazakhstan, ...

Created on 31 May 2018

16. ICAN Expects Nuclear Ban Treaty to Enter into Force in 2019

(Project Articles)

... signed and 10 have ratified it. Fifty countries must ratify the Treaty for it to enter into force. The UN High Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament scheduled for May 14-16, 2018 has been postponed indefinitely. ...

Created on 29 May 2018

17. ICAN Expects Nuclear Ban Treaty to Enter into Force in 2019

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... signed and 10 have ratified it. Fifty countries must ratify the Treaty for it to enter into force. The UN High Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament scheduled for May 14-16, 2018 has been postponed indefinitely. ...

Created on 29 May 2018

18. Asian Sympathy Swinging Towards North Korea

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... past, when it simply played host to a multilateral conference,” he said. Rahul Pathak of The Straits Times noted that with doors suddenly being opened for the first ever summit of US and North Korean ...

Created on 29 May 2018

19. Nuclear Weapon States' Long Arm Seen Behind Deferral of Landmark UN Conference

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「核軍縮に関する国連ハイレベル会議」延期の裏に核保有国の影 【ニューヨークIDN＝アラン・ウェア】 ２０１８年５月１４日は、「とりわけ核兵器に関する包括的条約を含め、核兵器の完全廃絶実現に向けた効果的な核軍縮措置」を討論するための３日間にわたる「核軍縮に関する国連ハイレベル会議」の開会日となるはずであった。 国連総会は５年前、丸１日を費やすハイレベル会合を国連で毎年開催したのちに、２０１８年にこうした会議を開くことを決定していた。 ...

Created on 22 May 2018

20. The Bumpy Road to Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Process

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Sergio Duarte The writer is President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. NEW YORK (IDN) – On July 1, 2018 the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ...

Created on 14 May 2018