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1. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who spoke about their experiences to Icelandic students while in Reykjavik. “These hibakusha travel on Peace Boat as part of the ‘Global Voyage for a Nuclear-Free World – Peace ...

Created on 08 November 2018

2. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

(Project Articles)

... of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who spoke about their experiences to Icelandic students while in Reykjavik. “These hibakusha travel on Peace Boat as part of the ‘Global Voyage for a Nuclear-Free World – Peace ...

Created on 08 November 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... could set a more positive tone more generally and to thus help to unstick other discussions in multilateral disarmament fora. [IDN-InDepthNews – 29 October 2018] Photo: Izumi Nakamitsu speaking at Hiroshima ...

Created on 29 October 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... in his opening remarks to the day-long debate, apparently moved by his visit to the Japanese city of Nagasaki – scene of the world's second nuclear attack on August 9, 1945 after Hiroshima – in August ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

(Project Articles)

... in his opening remarks to the day-long debate, apparently moved by his visit to the Japanese city of Nagasaki – scene of the world's second nuclear attack on August 9, 1945 after Hiroshima – in August ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... launch in Hiroshima in 2012. The Treaty was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in July 2017. It opened for signature on September 2017. Until now, 69 countries have signed and 19 ratified ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

(Project Articles)

... launch in Hiroshima in 2012. The Treaty was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in July 2017. It opened for signature on September 2017. Until now, 69 countries have signed and 19 ratified ...

Created on 30 September 2018

8. Peacebuilders for a Nuclear-Weapon Free World

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... carried out but with nuclear weapons that were smaller than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and that would not necessary lead to an all-out war between the United States and the Soviet Union. This avenue ...

Created on 27 September 2018

9. My Life Will Never be the Same Again

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and ensure that this never happens. Photo: Ilya Kursenko with a face mask. Credit: Katshuhiro Asagiri, IDN-INPS Multimedia Director. You will understand this once you see how Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Created on 15 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... so because the potential consequences of nuclear testing have been underlined by the first-hand accounts of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from survivors – the Hibakusha – highlighting the ...

Created on 07 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from survivors – the Hibakusha – have helped to cement in our minds the horrors of the use of nuclear weapons in warfare. Likewise, recognizing the impact of nuclear testing on ...

Created on 06 September 2018

12. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... for example, as few as 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs, small by modern standards, would put at least five million tons of soot into the upper atmosphere and cause climate disruption across the planet, cutting ...

Created on 30 August 2018

13. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city and of Hiroshima on August 6. "Millions of people, including here in Japan, live in a shadow cast by the dread of unthinkable carnage. States in possession ...

Created on 20 August 2018

14. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Project Articles)

... anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city and of Hiroshima on August 6. "Millions of people, including here in Japan, live in a shadow cast by the dread of unthinkable carnage. States in possession ...

Created on 20 August 2018

15. No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, No More Hibakusha

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the hibakusha, have become leaders for peace and disarmament here in Japan and around the world.  They are defined not by the cities that were destroyed, but by the peace ...

Created on 09 August 2018

16. Rising Nuclear Tensions Call For Elimination Of Atomic Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu Ms Izumi Nakamitsu is High Representative, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). Following is the text of the message she delivered to the Hiroshima Peace ...

Created on 06 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and most surprisingly, Japan, the only country to have ever suffered catastrophic nuclear bombing which was wreaked upon it twice in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. in August 1945. Let us do a thought ...

Created on 08 July 2018

18. NPT Proves To Be An Exercise In Bad Faith As It Turns 50

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that are at least as destructive as the atom bombs that wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki, since the subsequently developed hydrogen bombs in the U.S. arsenal are magnitudes more devastating and catastrophic.  ...

Created on 03 July 2018

19. What Kazakhstan's Nuclear Legacy Means For CTBTO

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Nuclear Test Site, known also as Semey polygon, in the eastern part of Kazakhstan. The energy of the tests released in turn was roughly equal to the capacity of 2,500 Hiroshima atomic bombs. The radioactive ...

Created on 31 May 2018

20. Le comunità religiose sollecitano la conferenza di Ginevra a preparare il cammino verso un mondo libero dalle armi nucleari

(Italian)

... sessant'anni. I sostenitori della dichiarazione congiunta richiamano alla mente le catastrofiche conseguenze umanitarie delle bombe atomiche su Hiroshima e Nagasaki nel 1945. "Da allora, l'umanità è ...

Created on 07 May 2018