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1. Nuclear Arms Control is Going Down a Trumpian Hole

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Reacting to the radio interview by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to mark Armistice Day, in which he was reported as saying, “We have ...

Created on 13 November 2018

2. Interfaith Statement Pushes for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

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... introduced by Bruce Knotts, President of the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security (NGOC DPS), during a side event To Safeguard Future Generations – Multi-Faith Responses to the Threat of Nuclear ...

Created on 11 November 2018

3. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

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... to disarmament that ignore global security conditions or undermine the NPT.” Recently, both George Schultz, former U.S. Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, and Mikhail Gorbachev, former president ...

Created on 08 November 2018

4. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

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... to disarmament that ignore global security conditions or undermine the NPT.” Recently, both George Schultz, former U.S. Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, and Mikhail Gorbachev, former president ...

Created on 08 November 2018

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

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... Editor WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) – Earlier this year, President Donald Trump told reporters that he wanted to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin "to discuss the arms race, which is getting ...

Created on 01 November 2018

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

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... the NPT fulfilled its core task: whereas U.S. President John F. Kennedy, speaking in 1963, imagined the world might soon have 15 to 25 nuclear-armed States, today there are only 9. The NPT’s ability to ...

Created on 29 October 2018

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

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... – 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

8. Experts Underline the Gravity of a Potential Nuclear Conflict

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... disaster of unimaginable scale to which no state or organization has the capacity to adequately respond,” she said. Another speaker, Carlos Umana, President of International Physicians for the Prevention ...

Created on 27 October 2018

9. Time Out for Nukes!

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... a time-out on nuclear gamesmanship, new threats, trillions of wasted dollars and IQ points on weapons systems that Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev acknowledged, back in 1987 at the end of the Cold War, ...

Created on 22 October 2018

10. Pompeo Heads to Pyongyang in Quest of Denuclearization

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... October 7 and is expected to meet with Chairman Kim Jong-un. Pompeo's trip could potentially jump-start action-for-action steps designed to advance the objectives agreed to by President Donald Trump ...

Created on 05 October 2018

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

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... President of the current session of the General Assembly, opened the meeting, saying the elimination of nuclear weapons "is probably the existential challenge of our times". It must remain a priority for ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

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... President of the current session of the General Assembly, opened the meeting, saying the elimination of nuclear weapons "is probably the existential challenge of our times". It must remain a priority for ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

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... in 1991. Our Head of State, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, took the daring and bold decision to renounce our nuclear arsenal and close the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site, the fourth and second ...

Created on 28 September 2018

14. 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

15. Upcoming UN General Assembly Promises a Whiff of History

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Fourth Woman President in 73 years – 18-year-old Female Activist to Speak at High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – The 73rd session of the United Nations ...

Created on 16 September 2018

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

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By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – The International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT) has been observed around the world on August 29 since 2010. A new element was added this year when President ...

Created on 07 September 2018

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

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... so without hesitation." The Meeting was convened by Miroslav Lajčák, President of the current session of the General Assembly to commemorate and promote August 29 as the International Day against Nuclear ...

Created on 06 September 2018

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

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... Race?' WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) – Five long years have passed since U.S. President Barack Obama proposed and Russian President Vladimir Putin unfortunately rejected negotiations designed to cut their ...

Created on 02 September 2018

19. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

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... Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29. The UN General Assembly proclaimed the day at the initiative of the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. They emphasize that it "is a symbolic day for Kazakhstan ...

Created on 30 August 2018

20. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

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... Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29. The UN General Assembly proclaimed the day at the initiative of the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. They emphasize that it "is a symbolic day for Kazakhstan ...

Created on 30 August 2018