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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)

... from member states of the United Nations evoked the catastrophic consequences and suffering caused by the testing and use of nuclear weapons, and called upon countries that have not done so to sign – and ...

Created on 07 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the world has benefitted from the strongly solidified de facto international norm against testing. There are 183 States that have signed the Treaty, of which 166 have ratified. Only three countries have ...

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)

By Daryl G. Kimball The United States and Russia are rushing forward with costly, ambitious plans to upgrade their Cold War nuclear arsenals and develop new types of destabilizing nuclear weapon, ...

Created on 02 September 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | VIENNA | ASTANA (IDN) – The Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Kairat Abdrakhmanov and CTBTO Executive Secretary Dr Lassina Zerbo have called on all States Signatories "to ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

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By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | VIENNA | ASTANA (IDN) – The Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Kairat Abdrakhmanov and CTBTO Executive Secretary Dr Lassina Zerbo have called on all States Signatories "to ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By J C Suresh TORONTO (IDN) – The State Senate of California, the most populous state in the United States, has adopted Assembly Joint Resolution 33 (AJR 33), which calls upon the federal government ...

Created on 30 August 2018

7. 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

8. 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

9. Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the SDGs. All Member States have committed themselves to taking such an integrated approach. A central concern for disarmament and arms control is the protection of civilians from the impact of weapons. ...

Created on 10 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of unthinkable carnage. States in possession of nuclear weapons are spending vast sums to modernize their arsenals. More than $1.7 trillion was spent in 2017 on arms and armies – the highest level ...

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)

... D.C. (IDN-INPS) – The much-anticipated July 16 summit meeting in Helsinki between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin did not go well for the United States. In a news conference following ...

Created on 07 August 2018

12. Rising Nuclear Tensions Call For Elimination Of Atomic Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... needs your continued moral leadership. After decades of momentum towards the shared goal of a world free of nuclear weapons, progress has stalled. Tensions between nuclear-armed States are rising. Nuclear ...

Created on 06 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... planet, boycotted the 2016 Summit and ended most nuclear security cooperation with the United States in 2014. Cooperation with other countries that pose significant nuclear security risks remains limited. ...

Created on 26 July 2018

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

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Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK (IDN | INPS) – In a historic bilateral summit, the United States President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. ...

Created on 21 July 2018

15. Nuclear Disarmament Is Crucial For Global Security – It Shouldn't Have To Wait

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... integrated disarmament into its work with the support of its member states, that could change the game profoundly. But will the member states heed Guterres’s call? Will civil and political society rally ...

Created on 15 July 2018

16. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... there was a welcome rush to sign. Fifty states signed that day, three of them ratifying at the same time. We’re now up to 59 signatures and 11 ratifications, from diverse regions. The pace of ratifications ...

Created on 13 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the Korean negotiations and the possibility of its achieving any promising outcomes. Other naysayers are the members of the U.S. nuclear alliance including NATO states as well as Australia, South Korea, ...

Created on 08 July 2018

18. Diplomacy With North Korea Crucial To Denuclearization

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... frame for action-for-action steps. The process could be coordinated through high-level, three-party consultations involving the United States, South Korea, and North Korea. An early goal should be to ...

Created on 04 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) turned 50. In that agreement, five nuclear weapons states – the U.S., Russia, UK, France, and China – pledged to make "good faith efforts" to give up their ...

Created on 03 July 2018

20. UN Chief Favours Implementation of Iran Nuclear Deal

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... reimpose sanctions. Guterres also called upon all states to support the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), saying “it is important that the withdrawal of one country ...

Created on 30 June 2018