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1. Nuclear Arms Control is Going Down a Trumpian Hole

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... just suggested that Europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the U.S., China and Russia. Very insulting.” In fact Trump’s reaction was based on reading a false report of what Macron ...

Created on 13 November 2018

2. Interfaith Statement Pushes for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the world has committed immense stores of material, economic, technical and intellectual resources to the production and maintenance of a vast and growing array of armaments. Far from ensuring peace ...

Created on 11 November 2018

3. Combative Politics and Hostile Discourse Mark UN Disarmament Initiatives

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... First Committee Monitor 2018. [P 13] She is referring to the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security which met from October 8 to November ...

Created on 11 November 2018

4. Combative Politics and Hostile Discourse Mark UN Disarmament Initiatives

(Project Articles)

... First Committee Monitor 2018. [P 13] She is referring to the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security which met from October 8 to November ...

Created on 11 November 2018

5. NATO's Gottemoeller Discusses Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence in China

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... 8th Beijing Xiangshan Forum in China from October 24 to 26 2018. Speaking at a special session on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Gottemoeller highlighted how technological advances provide challenges ...

Created on 08 November 2018

6. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... said the focus would be on disarmament. "Disarmament is not discussed enough at NATO meetings,” she told IDN. In Brussels, she took the opportunity of meeting delegates from the International Campaign ...

Created on 08 November 2018

7. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

(Project Articles)

... said the focus would be on disarmament. "Disarmament is not discussed enough at NATO meetings,” she told IDN. In Brussels, she took the opportunity of meeting delegates from the International Campaign ...

Created on 08 November 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... nothing to bring Russia back into compliance, and it distracts from Russian actions that precipitated the INF Treaty crisis. Worse yet, U.S. withdrawal opens the door for Russia to produce and deploy ...

Created on 01 November 2018

9. Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament Go Hand in Hand

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu Following are extensive excerpts from remarks by Under-Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), at the Roundtable Discussion ...

Created on 29 October 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... – The Editor STOCKHOLM (IDN-INPS) – At a political rally on October 20, U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the 1987 Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range ...

Created on 28 October 2018

11. Experts Underline the Gravity of a Potential Nuclear Conflict

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

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

12. Participation in Landmark NATO Exercise Reveals Iceland's Dilemma

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... elite counter-terrorism unit Viking Squad also took part. In conjunction with an organizational meeting for Trident Juncture on October 19-20, ten naval warships from the U.S., UK, Denmark and Canada ...

Created on 25 October 2018

13. Kazakh Initiated Forum Underlines Importance of NWFZs

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to guarantee compliance with the obligations deriving from that statute." Nakamitsu also commended Ashikbayev for his "active and personal dedication to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation and ...

Created on 23 October 2018

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

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Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu The following are extensive excerpts from a statement by Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) at a side event on October 18, 2018, ...

Created on 23 October 2018

15. Time Out for Nukes!

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... in a new Cold War time-warp, totally inappropriate to the times. We were warned last week from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that prior calculations about the risk of catastrophic ...

Created on 22 October 2018

16. India Needs to Reify its Global Nuclear Disarmament Policy

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... challenges have warranted special attention both from regional and global contexts for several decades. India's tumultuous relationship with its neighbours and its desire to be a regional and global power ...

Created on 07 October 2018

17. Pompeo Heads to Pyongyang in Quest of Denuclearization

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... halting nuclear and missile tests, but said Pyongyang is waiting to see a "corresponding response from the United States." Ri denounced the Trump administration's plan of "denuclearization first" and said ...

Created on 05 October 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... more than 50 countries, as well as Observer States and civil society, took the floor to spotlight the many ways in which nuclear weapons endanger humanity – from the modernization of existing arsenals ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

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... more than 50 countries, as well as Observer States and civil society, took the floor to spotlight the many ways in which nuclear weapons endanger humanity – from the modernization of existing arsenals ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and the 2017 Nobel Peace laureate, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) titled "Everything You Treasure – For a World Free From Nuclear Weapons" that opened for the first time in Tokyo ...

Created on 30 September 2018