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1. Nuclear Arms Control is Going Down a Trumpian Hole

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia and even the United States of America… We need a true European army”, President Donald Trump blew a fuse. He tweeted: “President Macron of France has ...

Created on 13 November 2018

2. Interfaith Statement Pushes for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and security, these preparations for war and violence have locked states into the "security dilemma" of escalating mistrust and fear. They have inflamed and entrenched conflicts throughout the world, bringing ...

Created on 11 November 2018

3. Combative Politics and Hostile Discourse Mark UN Disarmament Initiatives

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and your actions as Member States result in consequences which we must all face," said Chair of the First Committee, Ambassador Ion Jinga, Permanent Representative of Romania to the UN, in his closing ...

Created on 11 November 2018

4. Combative Politics and Hostile Discourse Mark UN Disarmament Initiatives

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... and your actions as Member States result in consequences which we must all face," said Chair of the First Committee, Ambassador Ion Jinga, Permanent Representative of Romania to the UN, in his closing ...

Created on 11 November 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... leading innovation in AI research and development. The United States is charting the course – the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has pioneered ground-breaking research and development in AI ...

Created on 08 November 2018

6. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

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By Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK (IDN) – With tension rapidly escalating between the United States and Russia – and indeed between these countries and others – a seminar on disarmament held in parallel with ...

Created on 08 November 2018

7. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

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By Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK (IDN) – With tension rapidly escalating between the United States and Russia – and indeed between these countries and others – a seminar on disarmament held in parallel with ...

Created on 08 November 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of concern to bring Russia back into compliance. Trump claims that the United States is pulling out to show Russia that he will not tolerate its alleged violation of the treaty, but U.S. withdrawal does ...

Created on 01 November 2018

9. 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

10. 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

11. Experts Underline the Gravity of a Potential Nuclear Conflict

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... last year [July 2017] by an overwhelming majority of UN member-states, is the international community's response to the ever increasing awareness of the impact of nuclear weapons and to the urgency of ...

Created on 27 October 2018

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

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... in Iceland in recent years. The joint declaration between Iceland and Norway on defence cooperation, dated March 2017, states: "Iceland is increasing funding for defence-related activities and is committed ...

Created on 25 October 2018

13. Kazakh Initiated Forum Underlines Importance of NWFZs

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... by the General Assembly of the United Nations, which any group of States, in the free exercises of their sovereignty, has established by virtue of a treaty or convention whereby: "1. The statute of total ...

Created on 23 October 2018

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

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... of Tlatelolco, which was signed in in 1967, to the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone, which entered into force in 2009, the world has experienced a growing adherence from States to nuclear weapon-free ...

Created on 23 October 2018

15. Time Out for Nukes!

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... came down and he miraculously freed all of Eastern Europe without a shot, that NATO would not move “one inch” to the East.  At this time, none of the nine nuclear weapons states – USA, Russia, UK, ...

Created on 22 October 2018

16. India Needs to Reify its Global Nuclear Disarmament Policy

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... cannot be divorced from the intentions of nuclear states like Pakistan and China. In order to engage major nuclear powers in a productive dialogue, there has to be special effort from New Delhi to reify ...

Created on 07 October 2018

17. Pompeo Heads to Pyongyang in Quest of Denuclearization

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...  According to an interview with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha published October 3 in The Washington Post, South Korea wants the United States to hold off, for now, on a demand for an inventory ...

Created on 05 October 2018

18. 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

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

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... the Treaty. It will enter into force 90 days after 50 states have ratified. Japan did not attend the Treaty negotiations; it has neither signed nor will it ratify the Treaty. Foreign Minister Taro Kono ...

Created on 30 September 2018