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1. US Should Commit to A No-First-Use Nuclear Policy

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... unless they use theirs? If the credibility of a pledge is a priority, Washington can strengthen it through additional changes. Legislation constraining presidential authority is one mechanism, so is ...

Created on 10 July 2021

2. US Should Commit to A No-First-Use Nuclear Policy

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... unless they use theirs? If the credibility of a pledge is a priority, Washington can strengthen it through additional changes. Legislation constraining presidential authority is one mechanism, so is ...

Created on 10 July 2021

3. Sixteen States Urge the Nuclear-Weapon States to Take Decisive Steps Towards Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Aar Jay Persius BERLIN (IDN) — "A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." On June 16, at their meeting in Geneva, US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin re-affirmed ...

Created on 09 July 2021

4. Sixteen States Urge the Nuclear-Weapon States to Take Decisive Steps Towards Disarmament

(Project Articles)

By Aar Jay Persius BERLIN (IDN) — "A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." On June 16, at their meeting in Geneva, US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin re-affirmed ...

Created on 09 July 2021

5. Miles to Go Before the U.S. and Russia Move the World Further from the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Aar Jay Persius BERLIN (IDN) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed at their June 16 summit in Geneva the principle agreed on by President Ronald Reagan and ...

Created on 01 July 2021

6. Miles to Go Before the U.S. and Russia Move the World Further from the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe

(Project Articles)

By Aar Jay Persius BERLIN (IDN) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed at their June 16 summit in Geneva the principle agreed on by President Ronald Reagan and ...

Created on 01 July 2021

7. Belgium Banks Ban the Bomb

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... their government to join the UN nuclear ban treaty. The current government also recognizes that this treaty “could give new impetus to multilateral nuclear disarmament”. Belgium’s financial sector has ...

Created on 29 June 2021

8. The US Builds A 'Systemic' Pact to Counter China's Growing Influence

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... States and the European Union criticising China. The Chinese government firmly opposed any country imposing their own demands on other countries, Zhao Lijian, a spokesman from China's foreign ministry, ...

Created on 28 June 2021

9. The US Builds A 'Systemic' Pact to Counter China's Growing Influence

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... States and the European Union criticising China. The Chinese government firmly opposed any country imposing their own demands on other countries, Zhao Lijian, a spokesman from China's foreign ministry, ...

Created on 28 June 2021

10. Hersey Helped Hiroshima Survivors Tell and Preserve Their Stories

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... freely, and was able to leave without interference, unlike colleagues who had their notes and film confiscated. (Hersey, Blume tells us, actually took no notes during his interviews as a means of evading ...

Created on 23 June 2021

11. Nuclear Risks: Reduction or Elimination?

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... is that the five countries recognized by the NPT as possessors of nuclear weapons should also reaffirm the principle revived by Biden and Putin. Their declaration should now help convince the other three ...

Created on 23 June 2021

12. A Seismic Event in US-Russia Relations

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... anonymous) opined: “We are tired of US’s rants of nasty comments, their Russophobia, and crazy demands to behave. It is time they abdicate their delusional dominant superpower mentality and stop dictating ...

Created on 17 June 2021

13. Canadian and French Nuclear Weapons Policies Challenged for Violating the Right to Life

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... States. The nuclear weapons policies of Denmark have been challenged as part of the periodic review of their obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women. ...

Created on 07 June 2021

14. Canadian and French Nuclear Weapons Policies Challenged for Violating the Right to Life

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... The nuclear weapons policies of Denmark have been challenged as part of the periodic review of their obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The ...

Created on 07 June 2021

15. Young Disarmament and Arms Control Experts Make Their Voices Heard

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of talented young professionals. Each policy paper offered pragmatic measures to make progress on their chosen topics.  Ambassador Kevin Hamilton, the Director-General of International Security Policy ...

Created on 30 May 2021

16. Only 'No First Use' Policy Can Defuse Tension

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... declaration, in that strictly speaking, if the only purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter their use by an adversary, then should deterrence fail, nuclear weapons may not be used in retaliation. Under ...

Created on 23 May 2021

17. Stop Muddying The Waters On The Appointment Of The CTBTO Executive Secretary

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... case. This is surprising because, under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, States Signatories are obligated to honour treaty terms even if it has not entered into force. To their credit, the ...

Created on 16 May 2021

18. The Nuclear Threat in the New Information Age

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... nuclear weapons and common-sense strategies to reduce and eliminate them, ordinary people, along with concerned scientists, physicians, and diplomats have organized and successfully pressed their political ...

Created on 12 May 2021

19. Biden Should Return Quickly to the Obama-led Iran Nuclear Deal

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...    The years passed and eventually, Iran got to the point in their research where some outsiders began to sound the alarm. First and foremost, Israel had its own secretive bomb program. But also, ...

Created on 11 May 2021

20. Time to Think Beyond Current NWFZs

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of states possessing nuclear weapons has almost doubled against the background of further modernization of such weapons, lowering the threshold of their possible use and the increase in nuclear weapon ...

Created on 30 April 2021