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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)

By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – The International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT) has been observed around the world on August 29 since 2010. A new element was added this year when President ...

Created on 07 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... also engaged in substantive discourse aimed at promoting the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) as the ultimate means to ensure that this destructive practice is forever abandoned. The adoption ...

Created on 06 September 2018

3. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

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... TEXT VERSION PDF   This clarion call is backed by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas of Germany, which has been elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for 2019-2020. In a statement ...

Created on 30 August 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

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... TEXT VERSION PDF This clarion call is backed by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas of Germany, which has been elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for 2019-2020. In a statement ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

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... organization of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, NAPF shares in the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded for our work on this groundbreaking treaty," he added. As the Treaty ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. U.S. Goes for 'Space Force All the Way'

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... “Space Force all the way!” Pence’s rationale for this disturbing expansion of U.S. militarization to the heavens is that “our adversaries”, Russia and China, “have been working to bring new weapons ...

Created on 21 August 2018

7. Little Progress in Nuclear Disarmament Since Helsinki Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Trump being in Putin's pocket yet when, soon after Trump became president, Putin suggested major cuts in nuclear weapons Trump turned him down. This would have been a fantastic way to start his presidency. ...

Created on 21 August 2018

8. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of nuclear weapons are spending vast sums to modernize their arsenals," he said. This, Masato Tainaka commented in the The Asahi Shimbun, was "a thinly veiled attack on the Trump administration". Guterres, ...

Created on 20 August 2018

9. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

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... of nuclear weapons are spending vast sums to modernize their arsenals," he said. This, Masato Tainaka commented in the The Asahi Shimbun, was "a thinly veiled attack on the Trump administration". Guterres, ...

Created on 20 August 2018

10. Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu The author is Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. This article first appeared in UN Chronicle, Vol. LV No. 2 2018 | August 2018.  ...

Created on 10 August 2018

11. No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, No More Hibakusha

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... in Nagasaki. My country, Portugal, has deep political, cultural and religious ties with this city, going back nearly five centuries. But Nagasaki is not just an international city with a long and fascinating ...

Created on 09 August 2018

12. Trump and Putin Can Put the Brakes on a New, Potentially More Dangerous, Arms Race

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... to be “extremely strong and powerful.” Nor does it appear that the meeting has resulted in any tangible breakthrough toward the goal of improving the strained U.S.-Russian relationship. This includes the ...

Created on 07 August 2018

13. Rising Nuclear Tensions Call For Elimination Of Atomic Weapons

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... 6 August 1945 cannot and must not ever happen again. The future of our children and of our children’s children depends upon it. The legacy of Hiroshima is one of resilience. The city we see today, this ...

Created on 06 August 2018

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

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... leadership on this issue. "As the threat of nuclear terrorism continues to loom, America must maintain its leadership of global efforts to keep dangerous nuclear and radiological materials out of the ...

Created on 26 July 2018

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

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... from 1995-2000. This article first appeared on The Sunday Times of Sri Lanka. The author's previous related articles on IDN can be accessed at: https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/the-world/eu-europe/1729-the-importance-of-putin-and-russia-s-presidential-election ...

Created on 21 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the time nor inclination for strategic thought.” The latest round of top-level summits and meetings have duly been coloured by a very real fear of war – but it doesn’t have to be this way. This year’s ...

Created on 15 July 2018

17. UN Nuclear Watchdog Promotes Global Development Agenda

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and below ground. This research allows experts to determine replenishments rates for groundwater and assess the vulnerability of groundwater to pollution, he said, pointing out that 71 ongoing technical ...

Created on 13 July 2018

18. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

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... This article has been published on the website of Australian Institute of International Affairs and in Pearls and Irritations on 12 July 2018.  SYDNEY (IDN-INPS) – The Treaty on the Prohibition ...

Created on 13 July 2018

19. Iran Sandwiched Between 'Regime Change' Threat and Menacing Discontent Within

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... Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. "We are all angry with the economic situation: we cannot continue our businesses like this. But we are not against the regime,” The Guardian quoted a merchant, who asked ...

Created on 09 July 2018

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

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... was to follow the endless step by step path of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, now 50 years old this month, which has only led to nuclear weapons forever. In light of the new détente Trump succeeded in ...

Created on 08 July 2018