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1. Nuclear Arms Control is Going Down a Trumpian Hole

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... treaty, argued that ballistic missile defence could provoke an arms race, and that it might provoke a surprise first-strike against the nation fielding the defence. The Russians regarded the Bush annulment ...

Created on 13 November 2018

2. Interfaith Statement Pushes for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... public statement submitted in October to the UN General Assembly's First Committee in New York. The statement is the tenth of its kind issued by the group since 2014. For the first time it also stresses ...

Created on 11 November 2018

3. Combative Politics and Hostile Discourse Mark UN Disarmament Initiatives

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By Jaya Ramachandran NEW YORK (IDN) – "If one had to pick a single word to describe this year's First Committee, contentious would be a reasonable contender. The increased volume – in all senses of ...

Created on 11 November 2018

4. Combative Politics and Hostile Discourse Mark UN Disarmament Initiatives

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By Jaya Ramachandran NEW YORK (IDN) – "If one had to pick a single word to describe this year's First Committee, contentious would be a reasonable contender. The increased volume – in all senses of ...

Created on 11 November 2018

5. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Beatrice Fihn at the seminar, told participants: "At present, nuclear-armed states simply have no plans to disarm. So first, you have to agree on the general goal, and prohibit the weapon. Only afterwards ...

Created on 08 November 2018

6. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

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... Beatrice Fihn at the seminar, told participants: "At present, nuclear-armed states simply have no plans to disarm. So first, you have to agree on the general goal, and prohibit the weapon. Only afterwards ...

Created on 08 November 2018

7. INF Treaty Decision is a Debacle, But Worse May Be Coming

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... world’s two largest nuclear arsenals for the first time since 1972. Both countries would be in violation of their Article VI nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty obligation to "pursue negotiations in good faith ...

Created on 01 November 2018

8. The INF Treaty Looks Likely to be a Dead Letter by April 2019

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Viewpoint by Dan Smith The following article by Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), first appeared on October 23, 2018 on the Institute's website. ...

Created on 28 October 2018

9. Experts Underline the Gravity of a Potential Nuclear Conflict

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By Claire Ochroch This report first appeared on October 25, 2018 in The Daily Pennsylvanian. NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – Speakers from across the world stopped by Penn's Perry World House on October 23 ...

Created on 27 October 2018

10. Kazakh Initiated Forum Underlines Importance of NWFZs

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... for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), including through a series of Nuclear Discussion Forums (NDF), now in its eighth year. She was addressing a side event of the UN General Assembly's First Committee ...

Created on 23 October 2018

11. Full Potential of Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones Has Yet to be Recognised

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... stories in the collective pursuit of a world free of nuclear weapons, their full potential has yet to be achieved. First, cooperation among zones is still weak. The five-yearly conferences of State Parties ...

Created on 23 October 2018

12. India Needs to Reify its Global Nuclear Disarmament Policy

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... India's prestigious Observer Research Foundation. The article first appeared on 28 September 2018, and is being reproduced courtesy the Foundation. NEW DELHI (IDN-INPS) – For India, non-proliferation ...

Created on 07 October 2018

13. Pompeo Heads to Pyongyang in Quest of Denuclearization

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... first appeared in the Inaugural Issue: The North Korea Denuclearization Digest on October 3, 2018. It is being reproduced courtesy Arms Control Association. – The Editor WASHIGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) – ...

Created on 05 October 2018

14. UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament

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By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – The United Nations has pursued the goal of nuclear disarmament since the adoption of the very first General Assembly resolution in 1946. But aware that countries ...

Created on 30 September 2018

15. UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament

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By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – The United Nations has pursued the goal of nuclear disarmament since the adoption of the very first General Assembly resolution in 1946. But aware that countries ...

Created on 30 September 2018

16. Japan Considers Ways of Shedding the Straitjacket and Go the Whole Hog for Nuclear Abolition

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... of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, which was observed first time in 2014 in accordance with a decision of the UN General Assembly. [P 10] JAPANESE TEXT ...

Created on 30 September 2018

17. Japan Considers Ways of Shedding the Straitjacket and Go the Whole Hog for Nuclear Abolition

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... of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, which was observed first time in 2014 in accordance with a decision of the UN General Assembly. [P 10] JAPANESE TEXT ...

Created on 30 September 2018

18. The World Needs a Strong Legal Framework for Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

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... of our commitments. To realize this goal, we must first and foremost establish a final ban on nuclear testing. Secondly, Atoms for Peace should remain our important moral compass. However, in the meantime, ...

Created on 28 September 2018

19. Peacebuilders for a Nuclear-Weapon Free World

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... nuclear issues alone. The first avenue proposed was the Baruch Plan, named after Bernard Baruch, a financier, often adviser to U.S. presidents going back to Woodrow Wilson and the First World War. He ...

Created on 27 September 2018

20. Upcoming UN General Assembly Promises a Whiff of History

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... Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament to underscore the need for a nuclear-weapons-free world. The first time the General Assembly organized such a meeting was in 2013. Espinosa has had only three previous ...

Created on 16 September 2018