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1. Faith-based & Other NGOs Look Forward to Entry into Force of the Nuclear Ban Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN (IDN) – When she learned that the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) reached the 50 states parties required for its entry into force, Setsuko Thurlow ...

Created on 10 November 2020

2. Faith-based & Other NGOs Look Forward to Entry into Force of the Nuclear Ban Treaty

(Project Articles)

By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN (IDN) – When she learned that the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) reached the 50 states parties required for its entry into force, Setsuko Thurlow ...

Created on 10 November 2020

3. Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal Under International Law

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... it is a landmark victory for the United Nations that continually for 75 years had on its agenda the issues relating to disarmament and abolition of nuclear weapons. It is remarkable that it coincided with ...

Created on 07 November 2020

4. Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal Under International Law

(Project Articles)

... it is a landmark victory for the United Nations that continually for 75 years had on its agenda the issues relating to disarmament and abolition of nuclear weapons. It is remarkable that it coincided with ...

Created on 07 November 2020

5. A Rallying Call for Nuclear Weapons Elimination By 2045

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... at least by 2045, arguing that setting the 2045 goal would provide a global rallying call to build a strong movement and that would leave no room for being dismissed as unrealistically early by those who ...

Created on 05 November 2020

6. Almost Unnoticed Nuclear Pandemic Is Spreading in Japan

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... into the sea. The catastrophic incident in Fukushima was triggered by the Tsunami that struck the north-eastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, submerging the power plant and causing the core of three ...

Created on 04 November 2020

7. US Pressurizes TPNW Signatories Triggering Uncertainty About Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people back in 1945. Paradoxically, there is also an often-quoted near-truism that “nuclear weapons have done more for world peace than ...

Created on 01 November 2020

8. Setsuko Thurlow: The TPNW – A Game Changer in Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  NEW YORK (IDN) – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has entered into force! This truly marks the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons! When I learned that we reached our 50th ratification, ...

Created on 28 October 2020

9. The U.S. Should Embrace TPNW's Vision of a More Democratic World

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). By its terms, the treaty will enter into force in 90 days, becoming legally binding for states that have joined the treaty. The treaty was negotiated in 2017 by 122 states, ...

Created on 28 October 2020

10. Mongolian NGO Greets 50th Ratification of TPNW

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... opportunity to congratulate all the states that took part in negotiating and adopting the treaty as well as the civil society organizations, coalitions and the survivors of the use of the nuclear weapons ...

Created on 28 October 2020

11. Soon Nuclear Weapons Will Be Prohibited

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... 90 days after that date. When in force, the TPNW will become part of the corpus of positive international law as the first multilateral agreement that comprehensively prohibits nuclear weapons and also ...

Created on 27 October 2020

12. Nuclear Ban Treaty Is Based on Common Sense

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on October 24, 2020. The Treaty will enter into force ninety days from that date. This will be an important result of the efforts of the United ...

Created on 26 October 2020

13. Towards Banning the Bomb

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to all those involved in the long struggle for a world free from the scourge of nuclear weapons, including the hibakusha, the states that played a leading role in this effort, the United Nations and its ...

Created on 26 October 2020

14. Nuclear-armed States Panic as Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty Becomes International Law

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Academy of International Law concluded that “the fact that the nuclear-armed States feel obliged to denounce the existence of a customary norm against the use and possession of nuclear weapons is, if nothing ...

Created on 26 October 2020

15. The Promise of the Treaty on Prevention of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... hearts and minds including the diplomats who initiated the TPNW negotiations at the United Nations. In essence, the TPNW prohibits nations that have ratified the Treaty from “developing, testing, producing, ...

Created on 25 October 2020

16. The Promise of the Treaty on Prevention of Nuclear Weapons

(Project Articles)

... hearts and minds including the diplomats who initiated the TPNW negotiations at the United Nations. In essence, the TPNW prohibits nations that have ratified the Treaty from “developing, testing, producing, ...

Created on 25 October 2020

17. Precarious Multilateralism Seizes CTBTO Nuclear-Test-Ban Organization

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Stephanie Liechtenstein*, Passblue VIENNA (IDN) – For the first time in its 24-year history, state parties to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a multilateral agreement that bans all nuclear testing ...

Created on 24 October 2020

18. 2045: A New Rallying Call for Nuclear Abolition

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the Security Council, in particular, to pledge to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons by 2045. The appeal was ignored at that time by the USA and Russia, who used the occasion of the special ...

Created on 22 October 2020

19. 2045: A New Rallying Call for Nuclear Abolition

(Project Articles)

... of the Security Council, in particular, to pledge to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons by 2045. The appeal was ignored at that time by the USA and Russia, who used the occasion of the special ...

Created on 22 October 2020

20. Forum Calls for New Approach to NE Asian Denuclearization and Economic Development

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that “establishing a Northeast Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone (NEA-NWFZ) and providing North Korea with a joint, credible mini-Marshall Plan might be a win-win solution for the Korean Peninsula as well ...

Created on 02 October 2020