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1. Nuclear Arms Control is Going Down a Trumpian Hole

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... powers that now have medium range systems of their own. In an editorial on October 24, the Financial Times argued: “There is a temptation to see the idea of nuclear confrontation between great powers ...

Created on 13 November 2018

2. Interfaith Statement Pushes for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the concerns of any state or nation over the good of the human and planetary whole. The horrific destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes their abolition the only path to authentic human security. In July ...

Created on 11 November 2018

3. Combative Politics and Hostile Discourse Mark UN Disarmament Initiatives

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... compared with the 48 per cent approved by consensus during the Committee's 72nd session. Some delegates elaborated on this trend in explaining the positions of their delegations after casting their votes, ...

Created on 11 November 2018

4. Combative Politics and Hostile Discourse Mark UN Disarmament Initiatives

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... compared with the 48 per cent approved by consensus during the Committee's 72nd session. Some delegates elaborated on this trend in explaining the positions of their delegations after casting their votes, ...

Created on 11 November 2018

5. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... kept and Gorbachev asking if it was not too late to return to dialogue and negotiations. Their opinions formed an opener for panel discussion at the disarmament seminar. Tytti Eräsö, who works with the ...

Created on 08 November 2018

6. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

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... kept and Gorbachev asking if it was not too late to return to dialogue and negotiations. Their opinions formed an opener for panel discussion at the disarmament seminar. Tytti Eräsö, who works with the ...

Created on 08 November 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... charges and point to their own concerns that the U.S. missile interceptor launchers deployed in Romania might be used to deliver offensive missiles. Since Trump took office, U.S. and Russian officials ...

Created on 01 November 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... it would also cast a pall on the Review Conference. For that reason, I encourage the United States and the Russian Federation to resolve their differences over the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ...

Created on 29 October 2018

9. Experts Underline the Gravity of a Potential Nuclear Conflict

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... their elimination,” he said. The symposium was hosted by the Academic Affairs branch of the IAA in collaboration with the PEAC Institute, a non-governmental organization based in New Jersey. PEAC had ...

Created on 27 October 2018

10. Kazakh Initiated Forum Underlines Importance of NWFZs

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By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu has expressed her "gratitude" to the Kazakhstan for their continued partnership with the UN Office ...

Created on 23 October 2018

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

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... stories in the collective pursuit of a world free of nuclear weapons, their full potential has yet to be achieved. First, cooperation among zones is still weak. The five-yearly conferences of State Parties ...

Created on 23 October 2018

12. Time Out for Nukes!

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... 50 nations required to ratify the treaty for it to enter into force have put it through their legislatures, the U.S. and Russia are in an unholy struggle to keep the nuclear arms race going – with Washington ...

Created on 22 October 2018

13. Pompeo Heads to Pyongyang in Quest of Denuclearization

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... and Chairman Kim at their Summit in Singapore – and possibly pave the way for a second summit later this year. The meeting in Pyongyang follows a busy round of multilateral and bilateral discussions ...

Created on 05 October 2018

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

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... possessing nuclear weapons have well-funded, long-term plans to modernize their nuclear arsenals, in 2013 the UN declared September 26 as the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

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... possessing nuclear weapons have well-funded, long-term plans to modernize their nuclear arsenals, in 2013 the UN declared September 26 as the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... event during the Second NPT preparatory committee session in Geneva in April 2018. The video introduced voices of ordinary young people in Nagasaki on their perception of nuclear weapons. These included ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

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... event during the Second NPT preparatory committee session in Geneva in April 2018. The video introduced voices of ordinary young people in Nagasaki on their perception of nuclear weapons. These included ...

Created on 30 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... as, in his Manifesto "The World. 21st Century" noted that the largest nuclear powers should be at the vanguard in the advocacy for a nuclear-weapon-free world, and lead by example in reducing their WMD. ...

Created on 28 September 2018

19. Peacebuilders for a Nuclear-Weapon Free World

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that we look at the ways in which governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have tried to deal with the existence of nuclear weapons, their control and their possible abolition. There have ...

Created on 27 September 2018

20. Upcoming UN General Assembly Promises a Whiff of History

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. Over 120 countries attended negotiations; however, all nine nuclear weapons possessing states along with some allies ...

Created on 16 September 2018