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41. Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US-Russia Relations and Finally Ban the Bomb

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... after which the Russians made their own bomb; -- Reagan rejected Gorbachev's offer to give up Star Wars as a condition for both countries to eliminate all their nuclear weapons when the wall came down ...

Created on 06 August 2019

42. CEND Is Creating the Conditions to ‘Never Disarm’ – 74 Years Since Hiroshima, Nagasaki

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and have lowered the threshold of nuclear weapon use in their declaratory and operational policies. Furthermore, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) has not entered into force 23 years after ...

Created on 05 August 2019

43. Nuclear Disarmament Through the Vortex of Global Concern

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to ensure safety alone, which in the first place provided the immediate rationale for their acquisition or production, but, often, to seek to achieve an advantage over others perceived as rivals or competitors. ...

Created on 04 August 2019

44. China Holds Firm on No First Use of Nuclear Weapons, Misses U.S. Assurances

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... or scale back their nuclear modernization efforts if the United States were willing to assure China’s leaders it would never use nuclear weapons first in a military conflict with China. Chinese experts ...

Created on 03 August 2019

45. INF Treaty’s Demise Opens Door to a Dangerous Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... conventionally-armed, are destabilizing because they can strike targets deep inside Russia and in Western Europe with little or no warning. Their short time-to-target capability increases the risk of miscalculation ...

Created on 02 August 2019

46. Growing Concern about US-Russian Disarmament Treaties

(Project Articles)

... without any mutual constraints on their nuclear forces, cautions Wright. "Without the INF Treaty, as well as the soon expiring New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), there would be no legally binding, ...

Created on 31 July 2019

47. Growing Concern about US-Russian Disarmament Treaties

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... without any mutual constraints on their nuclear forces, cautions Wright. "Without the INF Treaty, as well as the soon expiring New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), there would be no legally binding, ...

Created on 31 July 2019

48. Iran at the Edge of a Cliff as the Bomb Question Hangs Fire

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... did cross the nuclear threshold the same deterrence will apply. No one rational would want to provoke their own incineration. Columbia university professor, Kenneth Waltz, the distinguished theorist on ...

Created on 24 July 2019

49. NATO Chief Should Urge USA to Work with Russia For Arms Control

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... 9M729 ground-launched cruise missiles that have been deployed so far. Given that the United States and NATO forces current can hold hundreds of key Russian military targets at risk using their existing ...

Created on 21 July 2019