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21. Almost Unnoticed Nuclear Pandemic Is Spreading in Japan

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... it to make it less radioactive (however, to what extent it is not known) with a process which will last 30 years. There is also radioactive sludge accumulated in the decontamination filters of the plant, ...

Created on 04 November 2020

22. US Pressurizes TPNW Signatories Triggering Uncertainty About Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people back in 1945. Paradoxically, there is also an often-quoted near-truism that “nuclear weapons have done more for world peace than ...

Created on 01 November 2020

23. Setsuko Thurlow: The TPNW – A Game Changer in Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... obligations of the treaty as well — such as victims assistance and environmental remediation which will be a hallmark for taking responsibility for the inter-generational effects of radiation. It is vitally ...

Created on 28 October 2020

24. The U.S. Should Embrace TPNW's Vision of a More Democratic World

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... important because they recognize and address concretely the unacceptable suffering and devastation that have resulted from the use and testing of nuclear arms—which could result again if current trends ...

Created on 28 October 2020

25. Soon Nuclear Weapons Will Be Prohibited

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... by nuclear-weapon States in opposition to the Treaty. The five NPT nuclear-weapon States formally declared that “accession to the ban treaty is incompatible with the policy of nuclear deterrence, which ...

Created on 27 October 2020

26. Nuclear Ban Treaty Is Based on Common Sense

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) by which each of its parties undertook to pursue negotiations on effective measures relating to the cessation of the nuclear arms race and to nuclear disarmament. Moreover, it ...

Created on 26 October 2020

27. Nuclear-armed States Panic as Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty Becomes International Law

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... prohibition of nuclear weapons will become international law under which nuclear weapons shall be regarded as prohibited weapons and their possession shall be considered illegal under international law. ...

Created on 26 October 2020

28. The Promise of the Treaty on Prevention of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... have undermined, but not completely destroyed, the NPT’s legitimacy by refusing to fulfil their Article VI and 2010’s “irrevocable” commitments. These failures which jeopardize human survival, along with ...

Created on 25 October 2020

29. The Promise of the Treaty on Prevention of Nuclear Weapons

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... have undermined, but not completely destroyed, the NPT’s legitimacy by refusing to fulfil their Article VI and 2010’s “irrevocable” commitments. These failures which jeopardize human survival, along with ...

Created on 25 October 2020

30. Precarious Multilateralism Seizes CTBTO Nuclear-Test-Ban Organization

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and Greece, had voted for the Russian list, which included Iran, and not for the list of nine countries that were adopted. Mikhail Ulyanov, the permanent representative of Russia to the International ...

Created on 24 October 2020

31. 2045: A New Rallying Call for Nuclear Abolition

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of whom were focused more on whether or not they would join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which was opened for signature in September 2017. However, the idea caught the attention ...

Created on 22 October 2020

32. 2045: A New Rallying Call for Nuclear Abolition

(Project Articles)

... of whom were focused more on whether or not they would join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which was opened for signature in September 2017. However, the idea caught the attention ...

Created on 22 October 2020

33. UN Chief Concerned About Standstill in Arms Control Talks

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the General Assembly resolution in 1946, which committed the UN to the goal of ridding the planet of nuclear weapons. Because of these, "the world continues to live in the shadow of nuclear catastrophe". ...

Created on 27 September 2020

34. UN Chief Concerned About Standstill in Arms Control Talks

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... of the General Assembly resolution in 1946, which committed the UN to the goal of ridding the planet of nuclear weapons. Because of these, "the world continues to live in the shadow of nuclear catastrophe". ...

Created on 27 September 2020

35. U.S. Shifts Arms Control Strategy with Russia

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... might put a cap on, rather than reduce, such warheads. “What we likely will see is a hybrid approach that would maintain limitations on the strategic systems but which would provide for a method of ensuring ...

Created on 17 September 2020

36. Fervent Calls for The CTBT To Be Urgently Brought into Force

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... for IDANT, which is marked annually on August 29, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged all states that have not yet signed or ratified the CTBT to do so without further delay. "The nuclear menace ...

Created on 31 August 2020

37. Extinguishing Prometheus’ Nuclear Flame: International Day Against Nuclear Tests

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of which recede with each passing year as a new nuclear arms race is ignited and the CTBT is overtaken by the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Kazakhstan’s Role In the void of leadership ...

Created on 31 August 2020

38. Extinguishing Prometheus’ Nuclear Flame: International Day Against Nuclear Tests

(Project Articles)

... of which recede with each passing year as a new nuclear arms race is ignited and the CTBT is overtaken by the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Kazakhstan’s Role In the void of leadership ...

Created on 31 August 2020

39. The Limits of Breakout Estimates in Assessing Iran’s Nuclear Program

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... by which policymakers, particularly members of Congress, judged the value of the accord. Supporters of the JCPOA highlighted the 12-month breakout achieved by the deal as a measure of success in rolling ...

Created on 10 August 2020

40. Looking Back at the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuclear Attacks on 75th Anniversary

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... regarding nuclear weapons". Later Szilárd recalled that "In March 1945, I prepared a memorandum which was meant to be presented to President Roosevelt. This memorandum warned that the use of the bomb ...

Created on 06 August 2020