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1. Kazakhstan Calls for Rigorous Implementation of the NPT

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... achievements of Kazakhstan are based on the successfully implemented anti-nuclear initiatives of the First President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Deputy Foreign Minister Ashikbayev said. He pointed out that ...

Created on 03 May 2019

2. UNODA Chief Focuses on Youth Engagement in Meeting with NGOs

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... considered how to meaningfully involve youth during the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, including organizing an international working group on youth during the First Committee in November 2020. ...

Created on 02 May 2019

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... for the first time. It was encouraging to have such a diverse mixture of global and local components in this education program. The conference offered students from five Japanese high schools, three ...

Created on 28 April 2019

4. UN Organizes Events Engaging Youth in Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Caroline Mwanga NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – The United Nations played host to three important events in the month of April, focusing on youth engagement. The first of these witnessed the Office for Disarmament ...

Created on 24 April 2019

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

(Project Articles)

... 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

9. North Korea Stays in Focus Amid Talk About Next Summits

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... it had test-fired a new tactical guided weapon, in its first publicly reported weapons test since the Hanoi summit. It was not immediately clear what type of weapon the North Koreans fired, but it does ...

Created on 20 April 2019

10. South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and energy industry that could be built around it. The government bought its first reactor from the U.S. in 1957. The apartheid government developed a three-stage deterrence strategy in 1978, fearing ...

Created on 13 April 2019

11. South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal

(Project Articles)

... mining, trade and energy industry that could be built around it. The government bought its first reactor from the U.S. in 1957. The apartheid government developed a three-stage deterrence strategy in ...

Created on 13 April 2019

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... a public statement calling on U.S. and Russian officials to get back to the arms control negotiating table, with the first order of business being agreement on a five-year extension of the 2010 New Strategic ...

Created on 12 April 2019

13. 2020 Trump Budget Aims to Boost U.S. Nuclear Capabilities

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... documentation and close-out activities will be completed fiscal year 2020. The agency said in February that it had completed the first production unit for the warhead. The Defense Department request ...

Created on 03 April 2019

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that gave the players pause, it was an “apprehension about domestic, global, allied or peer reputational costs”. They didn’t want to become a pariah by being the first to advocate use since 1945. They ...

Created on 26 March 2019

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... for foreign affairs said March 15 that Pyongyang is considering halting the diplomatic process because Kim “may have lost the will” to continue negotiations. Since the first Trump-Kim summit in Singapore ...

Created on 22 March 2019

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... for a number of reasons. Two of those are of direct relevance to this conference. First, in the face of a manifest deterioration in great power relations on matters of international peace and security ...

Created on 16 March 2019

17. Ushering in an Era of Peace and Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... with approximately 12 million practitioners in 192 countries and territories, launched a second People’s Decade for Nuclear Abolition in 2018, to build on the work of the first Decade, which concluded ...

Created on 03 March 2019

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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