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1. Kudos for Kazakhstan's 'Leading Role' as UN General Assembly Campaigns for Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Nazarbayev to close the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test site on August 29, 1991. More than 450 nuclear test explosions were conducted at this site between 1949 – the year of the first nuclear test by the ...

Created on 07 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... 1949 – the year of the first nuclear test by the Soviet Union – and 1989. Following the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union, one of the first decisions of the newly independent Republic ...

Created on 06 September 2018

3. Uncertainty About Whether the U.S. and Russia Can Avert a New Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... scheduled to expire. Without a decision to extend the treaty, which is allowable under Article XIV, there will be no legally binding limits on the world's two largest arsenals for the first time since ...

Created on 02 September 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the first Soviet nuclear test in 1949 and the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. In the intervening years, 456 tests were carried out at that site, with devastating consequences. Globally, ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Project Articles)

... of the first Soviet nuclear test in 1949 and the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. In the intervening years, 456 tests were carried out at that site, with devastating consequences. Globally, ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. Little Progress in Nuclear Disarmament Since Helsinki Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... troops. It is also leaning towards widening the conditions under which nuclear weapons may be used first in response to a non-nuclear act of aggression. This will revoke Obama-era assurances given to ...

Created on 21 August 2018

7. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the first UN chief to attend the annual ceremony in Nagasaki, added Tainaka, "deftly sidestepped naming the United States, but there was no disguising that his speech was a scathing indictment of the Trump ...

Created on 20 August 2018

8. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Project Articles)

... the first UN chief to attend the annual ceremony in Nagasaki, added Tainaka, "deftly sidestepped naming the United States, but there was no disguising that his speech was a scathing indictment of the Trump ...

Created on 20 August 2018

9. Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu The author is Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. This article first appeared in UN Chronicle, Vol. LV No. 2 2018 | August 2018.  ...

Created on 10 August 2018

10. No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, No More Hibakusha

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence. Peace is not an abstract concept ...

Created on 09 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the Duma. If New START is not extended, then in 2021 there will be no legally-binding limits on the world’s two largest strategic arsenals for the first time since 1972. Unconstrained U.S.-Russian nuclear ...

Created on 07 August 2018

12. Study Finds Congressional Attention on Nuclear Security Waning as Nuclear Terrorism Threat Persists

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... a Secure America (PSA) and the Arms Control Association (ACA) jointly undertook a first-ever study of current congressional staff attitudes on the issue and explored case studies of congressional leadership ...

Created on 26 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Treaty in 1963, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty in 1972; the Apollo-Soyuz project in space where the cold-war rivals met in orbit in 1975; the first joint U.S.-Russian space shuttle mission in ...

Created on 21 July 2018

14. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Nuclear Weapons filled a gaping hole in international law by declaring the last weapons of mass destruction illegal. On the first anniversary of its adoption, how is the treaty faring? One year ...

Created on 13 July 2018

15. Trump-Putin Summit A New Opportunity To Ban The Bomb

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Alice Slater, World BEYOND War The writer serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War. Following is the text of her article first published with the caption Watch Out World: ...

Created on 08 July 2018

16. Diplomacy With North Korea Crucial To Denuclearization

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... he said. With Pompeo expected to make a return trip to Pyongyang soon, the first order of business must be to agree on a framework for ongoing, direct, expert-level negotiations on the details and time ...

Created on 04 July 2018

17. Experts Accentuate the Significance of Trump-Putin Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to extend New START, and if the INF Treaty comes to an end, there would be no legally-binding limits on the world's two largest nuclear superpowers for the first time since 1972, and the risk of unconstrained ...

Created on 30 June 2018

18. Revolutionary Change Bringing in DPRK From the Cold

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... rapport with Kim Jong Un first as a basket ball fan and then as a black American citizen who helped demystify the mightiest nation to the head of the “hermit kingdom” to bring it out of self imposed isolation. ...

Created on 22 June 2018

19. Nuclear Ban Treaty Beacons the End of Nuclear Age

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... sustainable ways of living. The 2017 Nuclear Prohibition Treaty is the first multilateral nuclear treaty since the UN General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in September 1996. ...

Created on 20 June 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and practical implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for such vision in the first place. The work now has to proceed at multiple levels. The CD has a mandated role to negotiate ...

Created on 18 June 2018