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1. The US Conceding Alone Would Lead to Successful Negotiations

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... That is why he opposed the European-negotiated compromise. Bush ignored the findings of his own National Intelligence Estimate in 2007 which concluded Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons research ...

Created on 28 December 2021

2. Stockholm Initiative Determined to Achieve the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... but also the June 2021 presidential statement announcing a U.S.-Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue, which included a reaffirmation by that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought". These ...

Created on 25 December 2021

3. Stockholm Initiative Determined to Achieve the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

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... but also the June 2021 presidential statement announcing a U.S.-Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue, which included a reaffirmation by that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought". These ...

Created on 25 December 2021

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... pillar and NATO is an indispensable part of our security." But the observer status in the TPNW is by no means neutral, because observers must also participate in financing the conference, which will meet ...

Created on 22 December 2021

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... a danger which did not actually exist, but which might be brought into existence by too much discussion of the military balance and by the ostentatious stimulation of military rivalry?”. It was Kennan, ...

Created on 21 December 2021

6. Mayors for Peace Say the Danger of Nuclear War Is Real and Growing

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  World leaders recognized then that a new global institution was needed to replace the League of Nations, which failed to prevent World War II. They created the UN to maintain international peace and ...

Created on 18 December 2021

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the executive branch. The sea-based and air-based portions of the “nuclear triad” (submarines and bombers) are invulnerable to successful attack—unlike ICBMs, which are completely vulnerable. The subs ...

Created on 16 December 2021

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

(Project Articles)

... the executive branch. The sea-based and air-based portions of the “nuclear triad” (submarines and bombers) are invulnerable to successful attack—unlike ICBMs, which are completely vulnerable. The subs ...

Created on 16 December 2021

9. Middle East Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone, Long Elusive, is Making Progress, say Experts

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...   Speaking at the second “UN Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and other Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs),” which took place November 29 to December 3, ...

Created on 04 December 2021

10. Middle East Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone, Long Elusive, is Making Progress, say Experts

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...  Speaking at the second “UN Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and other Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs),” which took place November 29 to December 3, UN ...

Created on 04 December 2021

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... commander in chief of the US Strategic Command, which controls all army, navy and air force nuclear weapons, he'd had moral qualms and profound doubts about America's possession of nuclear weapons. [2021-11-30] ...

Created on 30 November 2021

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Committee (ENDC)[1] to negotiate, as a matter of urgency, a treaty to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and set forth the principles on which that instrument should be based. Among the main ...

Created on 30 November 2021

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

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... Committee (ENDC)[1] to negotiate, as a matter of urgency, a treaty to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and set forth the principles on which that instrument should be based. Among the main ...

Created on 30 November 2021

14. The Challenge of Nuclear Submarine Proliferation

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... than them and concerns all Agency Member States and the Secretariat. By creating within the NPT/IAEA regime a new system of pre-or non-NPT types of arrangements under which a State can operate two parallel ...

Created on 27 November 2021

15. The Challenge of Nuclear Submarine Proliferation

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... is bigger and broader than them and concerns all Agency Member States and the Secretariat. By creating within the NPT/IAEA regime a new system of pre-or non-NPT types of arrangements under which a State ...

Created on 27 November 2021

16. Driving Nuclear Submarines Through IAEA Safeguards!

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Soviet Union and the United States had nuclear-powered commercial (merchant) ships, the Otto Hahn, the Mutsu, the Sevmorput and the Savannah, respectively – three of which were decommissioned after successful ...

Created on 25 November 2021

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... 2014-15 Minsk Accords. [2021-11-23] The People’s Republics of  Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk (LPR), which declared independence in response to the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014, have once again ...

Created on 23 November 2021

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Nations, which any group of States, in the free exercises of their sovereignty, has established by virtue of a treaty or convention whereby: The statute of total absence of nuclear weapons to which ...

Created on 22 November 2021

19. Iran’s Failure to Cooperate with the IAEA is Raising Tensions

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... by creating gaps in the monitoring record of Iran’s nuclear program which make it more difficult—if not impossible—to restore the JCPOA’s verification regime and drives speculation of illicit activities ...

Created on 19 November 2021

20. New Report Shows Impact of Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty on Nuclear Weapons Business

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the nine nuclear armed countries for which data was available between January 2019 and July 2021.  Key findings from the report: While $685,184 million was made available to the 25 nuclear weapons ...

Created on 11 November 2021