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1. The US Conceding Alone Would Lead to Successful Negotiations

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Viewpoint by Jonathan Power Photo: The talks are aimed at bringing Iran back into full compliance with the 2015 deal and paving the way for the US to rejoin. Source: Germany's international broadcaster ...

Created on 28 December 2021

2. An Important TPNW Signal from Germany—But Nothing More

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Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf This article was issued by Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. Photo: Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister. Photocosmos1/Shutterstock ...

Created on 22 December 2021

3. A New Cold War Between Russia and The West Is Unnecessary

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Viewpoint by Jonathan Power Photo: US President Biden met virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on 15 November 2021. Source: Los Angeles Times. LUND, ...

Created on 21 December 2021

4. Elimination of ICBMs Would Greatly Reduce the Chances of a Global Nuclear Holocaust

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Viewpoint by Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO, USA (IDN) — Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.” If you’d rather not think about them, ...

Created on 16 December 2021

5. Elimination of ICBMs Would Greatly Reduce the Chances of a Global Nuclear Holocaust

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Viewpoint by Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO, USA (IDN) — Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.” If you’d rather not think about them, ...

Created on 16 December 2021

6. It Is High Time to End Reliance on Nuclear Armaments

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Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — It's almost twenty-five years since General George Lee Butler made his confessional statement before the National Press Club in Washington—that as ...

Created on 30 November 2021

7. The NPT Will Probably Endure, But Its Longevity May Be at Stake

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Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte The writer is President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. NEW YORK (IDN) — The NPT turned ...

Created on 30 November 2021

8. The NPT Will Probably Endure, But Its Longevity May Be at Stake

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Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte The writer is President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. NEW YORK (IDN) — The NPT turned ...

Created on 30 November 2021

9. The High Stakes of the U.S.-Russia Confrontation over Ukraine

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Viewpoint by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK (IDN) — A report in Covert Action Magazine from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine describes grave fears ...

Created on 23 November 2021

10. Achieving The Possible Against the Odds: “A Middle East Nuclear and WMD Free Zone”

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Viewpoint by Tariq Rauf[1] VIENNA (IDN) — In normal times, the second session of the “United Nations Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons ...

Created on 22 November 2021

11. Time To Bolster the NPT's Disarmament Pillar

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Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball The following by Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director of The Arms Control Association, was published on October 29, 2021 in Arms Control Today. WASHINGTON, DC (IDN) ...

Created on 30 October 2021

12. The NPT Review Conference: Finally, New York, January 2022

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Viewpoint by Tariq Rauf* “We now have the opportunity to carry out the important work of the Review Conference and to ensure the NPT maintains its place as the cornerstone of the nuclear disarmament ...

Created on 28 October 2021

13. What If… We Could Build Trust in Northeast Asia

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Viewpoint by Hugh Miall This article was issued by Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. KENT | United Kingdom (IDN) — The new V&A Museum, designed by the Japanese ...

Created on 27 October 2021

14. North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program is a Logical Response to Repeated Threats from the US-Japanese-South Korean Alliance

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Viewpoint by Joseph Gerson The writer is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security; Co-Founder of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy; and author of “Empire and the ...

Created on 21 October 2021

15. Australia's Nuclear-Powered Submarines Will Risk Opening a Pandora's Box of Proliferation

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Viewpoint by Tariq Rauf This article was issued by Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. VIENNA (IDN) — After first suffering a seeming “brain snap” to acquire a fleet ...

Created on 30 September 2021

16. The Study of History Can Avert a New Cold War

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Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Does America know what a dangerous game its leaders have been playing? Does it know its history? And do the leaders of Europe, who should be a brake ...

Created on 27 July 2021

17. From Crossroads to Godzilla: The Cinematic Legacies of The First Postwar Nuclear Tests

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Viewpoint by Timothy Noël Peacock Photo: The "Baker" explosion, part of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear weapon test by the United States military at Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, on 25 July 1946. Credit: ...

Created on 24 July 2021

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

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Viewpoint by Van Jackson* WELLINGTON, New Zealand (IDN) — It was one of the most potent lessons of the Cold War—nukes are good for deterring others from using nukes, but not much else. Weapons capable ...

Created on 10 July 2021

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

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Viewpoint by Van Jackson* WELLINGTON, New Zealand (IDN) — It was one of the most potent lessons of the Cold War—nukes are good for deterring others from using nukes, but not much else. Weapons capable ...

Created on 10 July 2021

20. Hersey Helped Hiroshima Survivors Tell and Preserve Their Stories

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Viewpoint by John Loretz This book review was originally published in IPPNW’s designated journal, Medicine, Conflict and Survival. MALDEN, Massachusetts, USA (IDN) — In 1946, John Hersey wrote a ...

Created on 23 June 2021