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OPINION: Sleepwalking Towards Nuclear War
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By HELGE LURAS*
OSLO (IPS) – New military measures to deter what NATO perceives to be a direct threat from Russia were adopted at the alliance’s Heads of State meeting in Wales (Sep. 4-5). A few days earlier, President Barack Obama made promises in Estonia that the three tiny Baltic NATO member states would “never stand alone”
Since early 2014, Russia has done practically all that Western leaders have warned President Vladimir Putin in advance not to do. Crimea was occupied and annexed. Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine were encouraged and given practical support. Later, Russian personnel and equipment came more and more openly into conflict with Ukrainian forces. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF
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Mideast Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone Remains in Limbo
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By THALIF DEEN
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – After four long years of protracted negotiations, a proposal for a nuclear weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in the strife-torn Middle East remains in limbo – and perhaps virtually dead.
But United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a relentless advocate of nuclear disarmament, is determined to resurrect the proposal. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF SPANISH | TURKISH
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UN Report Faults Humanitarian Vigilance in Response To Nuclear Detonations
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By JAMSHED BARUAH
BERLIN (IDN) – About 22,000 nuclear weapons continue to threaten humankind’s survival nearly 70 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and more than 2,000 nuclear tests have been conducted to date, according to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). But the world is far from prepared to effectively respond to nuclear weapons detonations, “even at basic levels of preparedness, let alone a large-scale nuclear war”. [P] HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | PERSIAN (FARSI) | SPANISH | SWEDISH
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Ban on Nuke Tests OK, But Where’s the Ban on Nuke Weapons?
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By THALIF DEEN
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – As the United Nations commemorated the International Day Against Nuclear Tests on Aug. 29, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lamented the fact that in a world threatened by some 17,000 nuclear weapons, not a single one has been destroyed so far. [P] GERMAN | ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF
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OPINION: Why Kazakhstan Dismantled its Nuclear Arsenal
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By KAIRAT ABDRAKHMANOV*
– August 29 is the fifth observance of the International Day against Nuclear Tests. One of the first decrees of President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan was the historic decision to close on Aug. 29, 1991 the Semipalatinsk Nuclear test site, the second largest in the world.
Kazakhstan also voluntarily gave up the world’s fourth largest nuclear arsenal, with more than 110 ballistic missiles and 1,200 nuclear warheads with the capacity to reach any point on this earth. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH
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Austrian Parliament Backs Government Efforts For Nuclear Disarmament
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By JAMSHED BARUAH
VIENNA (IDN) – As the Austrian government prepares to host the third international conference on the humanitarian consequences of atomic weapons on December 8-9 in Vienna, the county’s parliament has provided it the legal basis for its commitment to usher in a world without nuclear weapons of mass destruction. [P] GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF
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IPPNW To Discuss Test Ban Treaty Future in Kazakhstan
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By JOHN LORETZ*
In the late 1980s, IPPNW helped bridge a dangerous and divided world to connect grassroots activists who wanted to stop nuclear testing by the United States and the former Soviet Union. Those “activists” were, in fact, ordinary people whose lives had been damaged (and sometimes taken from them) and whose communities had been destroyed by the contamination from nuclear weapons tests, which continued underground long after the Partial Test Ban Treaty outlawed them in the atmosphere, under water, and in space in 1963.
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69 Years On: Need To Tread A Nuke Free Road
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By AKIRA KAWASAKI*
August 6, 2014 marked the 69th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon over Japan. The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki held ceremonies commemorating those hundreds of thousands who perished in the two nuclear attacks in 1945, and the countless more whose lives would forever be affected. But in these past decades, can we say that we have truly learned from the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Is our recognition of the suffering inflicted upon those cities matched with the concrete action to ensure that it can never be repeated? Akira Kawasaki answers these and other questions in a contribution to IDN partner Pressenza.
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Inhumane, Illegal, Immoral and Cruel: A Survivor Account of the Hiroshima Bombing
Nuclear Abolition NewsDocument | ICAN
At the Little White House in Key West Florida, on 16 May 2014, atomic bomb testimony was delivered in an official forum on Truman ground for the first time. Together with Clifton Truman Daniel, Hibakusha Stories organized an event where Setsuko Thurlow and Yasuaki Yamashita were able to share their experience of being children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. Thanks to support from the Truman Family, The Little White House and The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, atomic bomb survivors are now on the official record defending the position that nuclear weapons are immoral no matter in whose hands. The following is Setsuko Thurlow’s speech from that evening. Watch video
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Atom Bomb Anniversary Spotlights Persistent Nuclear Threat
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– It has been 69 years, but the memory is fresh in the minds of 190,000 survivors and their descendants. It has been 69 years but a formal apology has yet to be issued. It has been 69 years – and the likelihood of it happening all over again is still a frightening reality. [P] ARABIC | GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF
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