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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... As early as 1948, uranium-rich South Africa was interested in atomic energy, and the mining, trade and energy industry that could be built around it. The government bought its first reactor from the U.S. ...

Created on 28 February 2019

2. Beyond the Second Trump-Kim Nuclear Weapons Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... troops 50 km across the border. It will probably create two buffer zones. First, to blockade North Korea’s major ports. Second, to intercept and search fleeing refugees and military personnel.  Within ...

Created on 26 February 2019

3. IAEA Keen to Enhance Nuclear Security in Africa

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... material and developed action plans to address any identified gaps during the IAEA’s first School on Drafting Nuclear Security Regulations for African Countries. [2019-02-25] Several participants ...

Created on 25 February 2019

4. UN Warns Against Emerging Hypersonic Weapon Technologies

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  Photo: A U.S. Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 Stratofortress from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., carries an X-51A Waverider prior to the scramjet’s first hypersonic flight test on March 26, 2010. ...

Created on 24 February 2019

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of 116 activities listed on the implementation plan. We have just completed our first quarterly review, the results of which are available on our website. And we are making good progress – more than a ...

Created on 23 February 2019

6. Europe Ventures to Speak Up Against USA

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... here to reaffirm our commitment that ‘America First’ does not mean America alone and tell leaders, allies and countries around the world that America is stronger than ever before and America’s leading ...

Created on 22 February 2019

7. A Nuclear Arms Race Will Produce No Winners

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... at our first meeting in Geneva: “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” That INF Treaty was the first step, and it was followed by others — the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START ...

Created on 21 February 2019

8. Experts Discuss Prospects Of Peace On The Korean Peninsula

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... 1953. A Peace Treaty was not high on the agenda of the first summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018 in Singapore. Nor is it likely to ...

Created on 20 February 2019

9. Experts Discuss Prospects Of Peace On The Korean Peninsula

(Project Articles)

... 1953. A Peace Treaty was not high on the agenda of the first summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018 in Singapore. Nor is it likely to ...

Created on 20 February 2019

10. Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... VERSION PDF | SPANISH Nuclear weapons were used for the first time in 1945. By today’s standards, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs can be considered “low-yield”, but together they killed over ...

Created on 06 February 2019

11. Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

(Project Articles)

... VERSION PDF | SPANISH Nuclear weapons were used for the first time in 1945. By today’s standards, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs can be considered “low-yield”, but together they killed over ...

Created on 06 February 2019

12. Trashing Treaties: It’s Not Just Trump

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... INF Treaty, negotiated in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, was the first nuclear arms treaty to eliminate an entire class of weapons. Now, nothing prevents Russia or the United States from ...

Created on 04 February 2019

13. Next Steps Out Of The INF Treaty Crisis

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... date. Otherwise, there will be no legally-binding limits on the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals for the first time since 1972. The INF Treaty prohibited all U.S. and Soviet missiles with ranges ...

Created on 02 February 2019

14. Mayors, Legislators Push For A Nuclear Weapons Free World

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... measures such as no-first-use and the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and to put an end to city and state investments in nuclear weapons corporations." "Legislators in nuclear armed ...

Created on 31 January 2019

15. Trump’s Missile Defence Buildup Plans Are Dangerous

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the U.S. homeland with additional ground- and sea-based Aegis SM-3 Block IIA missile interceptors. Even before the release of the review, Congress during the first two years of the Trump administration ...

Created on 30 January 2019

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the range to reach Moscow. How can Iran ever be a threat is the first of many questions. Voluntarily, in an agreement negotiated with the Administration of President Barack Obama, Iran has forsaken the ...

Created on 29 January 2019

17. UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Devinder Kumar NEW DELHI (IDN) – India is the first member country of the United Nations to have launched a fellowship programme on disarmament and international security for foreign diplomats. ...

Created on 23 January 2019

18. UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament

(Project Articles)

By Devinder Kumar NEW DELHI (IDN) – India is the first member country of the United Nations to have launched a fellowship programme on disarmament and international security for foreign diplomats. ...

Created on 23 January 2019

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  First, some of the report’s main conclusions are rather bizarre. For instance, it claims that the TPNW “is not a mainstream arms control convention between the states most concerned but primarily an ...

Created on 19 January 2019

20. The Guterres Disarmament Agenda: Continuity And Change

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... a prominent advocate for disarmament. He was the first incumbent secretary-general to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, and the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. ...

Created on 15 January 2019