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21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. Time to Think Beyond Current NWFZs

(Project Articles)

... 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

28. Sleepwalking into Nuclear War?

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that read, “We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as their least bad option”. [2021-04-27]   This ...

Created on 27 April 2021

29. Plea for Diverting Funds from Nuclear Weapons to Combating COVID-19

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... allows for a unique opportunity to hit the nuclear weapons producers where it hurts—their wallets," an ICAN campaign says. [2021-04-14|01] GERMAN | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | As the risk ...

Created on 14 April 2021

30. Plea for Diverting Funds from Nuclear Weapons to Combating COVID-19

(Project Articles)

... allows for a unique opportunity to hit the nuclear weapons producers where it hurts—their wallets," an ICAN campaign says. [2021-04-14|01] GERMAN | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF  As the risk ...

Created on 14 April 2021

31. Nuclear Disarmament: Thinking Outside the Silo

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Russia) and the United States – as nuclear weapons states while enjoining them to negotiate to give up their nuclear weapons as part of a broader goal of general disarmament.  At the end of the Cold ...

Created on 03 April 2021

32. The Vatican Secretary of State Stresses the Significance of Disarmament for Integral Security after Pandemic

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... She said pressure from institutional and activist investors has forced several corporations to abandon their weapon-producing operations. “Together, we can build and sustain the norms that make weapons ...

Created on 30 March 2021

33. The NPT--From Promise to Reality

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... weapons or such explosive devices. For their part, non-possessors would renounce receiving the transfer of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or of control over such weapons or explosive ...

Created on 27 March 2021

34. Instead of Increasing Nuclear Stockpile, the UK Should Be Leading The Way on Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... inclined to expand their arsenals. The final reason given by the author makes for almost haunting reading in the context of the government's announcement: that 'unlike some others in the P5 club, the ...

Created on 20 March 2021

35. Gorbachev's Legacy After 30 Years of the Soviet Union's Disintegration

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to modernize the archaic political system Perestroika very quickly provoked the resistance and opposition of conservative forces concerned with the perspective of losing their privileged positions. Another ...

Created on 05 March 2021

36. Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons: The Role of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Nuclear Weapons with the goal of joining it at an appropriate time. There are good reasons for such a move. First, it would align the countries’ actions with their proposed political agenda of reaching ...

Created on 04 March 2021

37. UN Youth4Disarmament Recognized by 'Billion Acts of Peace'

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and graduate school) and 25 to 29 years (early career professionals). Through the challenge, young people around the world were invited to express in 75 words what disarmament means to them and their ...

Created on 28 February 2021

38. UN Youth4Disarmament Recognized by 'Billion Acts of Peace'

(Project Articles)

... and graduate school) and 25 to 29 years (early career professionals). Through the challenge, young people around the world were invited to express in 75 words what disarmament means to them and their ...

Created on 28 February 2021

39. Nuclear Modernization Race Continues Despite New START

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... we have no arms control agreement with China in any way, so we have no insight into their nuclear doctrine," he added. "That is a difficult place to be." The other problem, the DOD believes, is that ...

Created on 28 February 2021

40. Nuclear Modernization Race Continues Despite New START

(Project Articles)

... we have no arms control agreement with China in any way, so we have no insight into their nuclear doctrine," he added. "That is a difficult place to be." The other problem, the DOD believes, is that ...

Created on 28 February 2021