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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)

... from member states of the United Nations evoked the catastrophic consequences and suffering caused by the testing and use of nuclear weapons, and called upon countries that have not done so to sign – and ...

Created on 07 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... entry into force: China, the DPRK, Egypt, India, Israel, Iran, Pakistan, and the United States. Given what we know about the devastating consequences of nuclear testing for humans, the environment, and ...

Created on 06 September 2018

3. Uncertainty About Whether the U.S. and Russia Can Avert a New Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Daryl G. Kimball The United States and Russia are rushing forward with costly, ambitious plans to upgrade their Cold War nuclear arsenals and develop new types of destabilizing nuclear weapon, ...

Created on 02 September 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... States: France, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom. But 44 specific nuclear technology holder countries must sign and ratify before the CTBT can enter into force. The Astana joint statement ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Project Articles)

... States: France, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom. But 44 specific nuclear technology holder countries must sign and ratify before the CTBT can enter into force. The Astana joint statement ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By J C Suresh TORONTO (IDN) – The State Senate of California, the most populous state in the United States, has adopted Assembly Joint Resolution 33 (AJR 33), which calls upon the federal government ...

Created on 30 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of war into space itself” that pose a threat to American satellites. But despite a virtual blackout in the mainstream media, Russia and China have been arguing for years in the halls of the United Nations ...

Created on 21 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the first UN chief to attend the annual ceremony in Nagasaki, added Tainaka, "deftly sidestepped naming the United States, but there was no disguising that his speech was a scathing indictment of the Trump ...

Created on 20 August 2018

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

(Project Articles)

... the first UN chief to attend the annual ceremony in Nagasaki, added Tainaka, "deftly sidestepped naming the United States, but there was no disguising that his speech was a scathing indictment of the Trump ...

Created on 20 August 2018

10. Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – The idea that disarmament and arms control are connected to development is not new. Article 26 of the Charter of the United Nations recognizes disarmament as a precondition for ...

Created on 10 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by António Guterres The survivors of the atomic bombings, known in Japanese as the hibakusha, have become global "leaders for peace and disarmament", United Nations Secretary-General António ...

Created on 09 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... D.C. (IDN-INPS) – The much-anticipated July 16 summit meeting in Helsinki between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin did not go well for the United States. In a news conference following ...

Created on 07 August 2018

13. Rising Nuclear Tensions Call For Elimination Of Atomic Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu Ms Izumi Nakamitsu is High Representative, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). Following is the text of the message she delivered to the Hiroshima Peace ...

Created on 06 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... planet, boycotted the 2016 Summit and ended most nuclear security cooperation with the United States in 2014. Cooperation with other countries that pose significant nuclear security risks remains limited. ...

Created on 26 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK (IDN | INPS) – In a historic bilateral summit, the United States President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. ...

Created on 21 July 2018

16. UN Nuclear Watchdog Promotes Global Development Agenda

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of a training course organized by the IAEA, the world's central intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field. At side events, the IAEA, described as the United ...

Created on 13 July 2018

17. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... ago, on 7 July 2017 at the United Nations in New York, 122 nations took a historic step when they voted to adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The Treaty filled a gaping hole in international ...

Created on 13 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Trump that Reagan promised that if Gorbachev didn't object to a united East Germany entering NATO, after the wall came down and Gorbachev miraculously let go of all of Eastern Europe without a shot, the ...

Created on 08 July 2018

19. Diplomacy With North Korea Crucial To Denuclearization

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... frame for action-for-action steps. The process could be coordinated through high-level, three-party consultations involving the United States, South Korea, and North Korea. An early goal should be to ...

Created on 04 July 2018

20. NPT Proves To Be An Exercise In Bad Faith As It Turns 50

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... St. George slaying the dragon. The dragon is created from fragments of Soviet SS-20 and United States Pershing nuclear missiles. UN Photo/Milton Grant IDN is flagship agency of the International Press ...

Created on 03 July 2018