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1. Nuclear Nightmare Persists As UN Treaty Awaits Ratification: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... President Ronald Reagan and his counterpart from the then Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, signed on December 10, 1987 in Washington. Thirty years on, Gorbachev – who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ...; Created on 14 October 2017
2. Nuclear Strike No Longer an All-Encompassing Taboo: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In order to protect the lives of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who were fighting their way from the south of Japan to Tokyo the bombs had to be used. In fact we ...; Created on 10 October 2017
3. Nobel Peace Prize for ICAN Significant for Nuclear Disarmament: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... of a Commission “to make specific proposals for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction”. Based mainly on humanitarian considerations, ...; Created on 08 October 2017
4. The Complementarity Between Nuclear Ban Treaty and the NPT: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... challenges result in fact from the very existence of nuclear arsenals. Early involvement and participation in the ban process would have enabled nuclear weapon States to raise and explain the security ...; Created on 03 October 2017
5. Trump Should Reaffirm That "A Nuclear War Must Never Be Fought": (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... To start, President Trump should refrain from making further nuclear threats and reaffirm the 1985 statement by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that "a nuclear war cannot ...; Created on 02 October 2017
6. A Nuke-free World – Through Inclusive, Step-by-Step Approach: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... Treaty (CTBT), several speakers appealed for the remaining Annex II countries that had yet to sign or ratify that instrument to do so. Delegates from the Middle East, noting that Israel was not a party ...; Created on 01 October 2017
7. Sri Lanka Criticised for Not Signing the UN Nuke Ban Treaty: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); By J Nastranis NEW YORK | COLOMBO (IDN) – Sri Lanka has refrained from signing the landmark UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that was adopted by 122 countries on July 7, 2017 and opened ...; Created on 29 September 2017
8. Conference Calls for Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Becoming International Law: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... Iraq. In a progress report to the conference, Japan and Kazakhstan, the co-presidency of the Article XIV process from September 2015 to September 2017, reaffirmed “their commitment and readiness to work ...; Created on 24 September 2017
9. Kazakhstan Plans a Summit of Nuclear Weapon States with an Eye on a Nuke-free World: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); By Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Kazakhstan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Following are extensive excerpts from Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov's address to the United Nations General Assembly ...; Created on 23 September 2017
10. U.S. State Secretary Lauds Kazakh Decision to Renounce Nukes: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... Act spearheaded by U.S. Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar, Kazakhstan opted to remove from its territory former Soviet weapons and related nuclear technologies, and joined the Non-Proliferation Treaty ...; Created on 22 September 2017
11. The Threat of a Nuclear Attack Remains a Grim Reality: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); By Rex W. Tillerson, the U.S. Secretary of State Following are extensive excerpts from remarks by the U.S. Secretary of State during the United Nations Security Council Session on Nuclear Non-Proliferation ...; Created on 22 September 2017
12. UN Treaty Signing a Significant Step Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons: (Project Articles); ... from lending assistance, which includes such prohibited acts as financing for their development. The treaty will enter into force 90 days after 50 or more countries have ratified, accepted, approved ...; Created on 21 September 2017
13. UN Treaty Signing a Significant Step Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... from lending assistance, which includes such prohibited acts as financing for their development. The treaty will enter into force 90 days after 50 or more countries have ratified, accepted, approved ...; Created on 21 September 2017
14. Opening for Signature of the UN Treaty a Milestone for Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... solution. The very first Resolution of the General Assembly decided to create a Commission charged with, inter alia, “making specific proposals for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons”. ...; Created on 20 September 2017
15. Opening for Signature of the UN Treaty a Milestone for Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons: (Project Articles); ... first Resolution of the General Assembly decided to create a Commission charged with, inter alia, “making specific proposals for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons”. The rivalry ...; Created on 20 September 2017
16. Heed the Voices of the Hibakusha Urging All States to Sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... significance of the Treaty is found in its prohibition of nuclear weapons in all their phases and aspects – from possession, to use and threat of use. No exceptions or mitigating circumstances are recognized. ...; Created on 18 September 2017
17. Heed the Voices of the Hibakusha Urging All States to Sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: (Project Articles); ... significance of the Treaty is found in its prohibition of nuclear weapons in all their phases and aspects – from possession, to use and threat of use. No exceptions or mitigating circumstances are recognized. ...; Created on 18 September 2017
18. Astana Conference Pleads for Ban on Nuclear Tests and More: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... from 1949 until 1989 with little regard for their effect on the local people or environment. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev also made sure that all Soviet nuclear weapons were withdrawn from the ...; Created on 14 September 2017
19. Ulaanbaatar Conference Stresses the Role of Individual States in Nuclear Disarmament Process: (Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses); ... it would work to acquire security assurances from the five NWS (nuclear weapon states) – China, the Russia Federation (then the Soviet Union), the United States, Britain and France who are also the five ...; Created on 13 September 2017
20. Ulaanbaatar Conference Stresses the Role of Individual States in Nuclear Disarmament Process: (Project Articles); ... it would work to acquire security assurances from the five NWS (nuclear weapon states) – China, the Russia Federation (then the Soviet Union), the United States, Britain and France who are also the five ...; Created on 13 September 2017