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1. Interfaith Statement Pushes for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Religion News Service (RNS) quotes Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Executive Director for Peace and Global Issues Kazuo Ishiwatari saying: “No machine should ever have the right to decide on life and death. ...

Created on 11 November 2018

2. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to disarmament that ignore global security conditions or undermine the NPT.” Recently, both George Schultz, former U.S. Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, and Mikhail Gorbachev, former president ...

Created on 08 November 2018

3. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

(Project Articles)

... to disarmament that ignore global security conditions or undermine the NPT.” Recently, both George Schultz, former U.S. Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, and Mikhail Gorbachev, former president ...

Created on 08 November 2018

4. The INF Treaty Looks Likely to be a Dead Letter by April 2019

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... year, the number continues to fall. By the start of 2018 the global total of nuclear weapons was 14 700 compared with an all-time high of some 70 000 in the mid-1980s. While nuclear weapons are ...

Created on 28 October 2018

5. Participation in Landmark NATO Exercise Reveals Iceland's Dilemma

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... opening of the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik on October 19, Prime Minister Jakobsdottir told some 2,000 delegates from over 60 countries that she wants "the global North" to become a weapons-free ...

Created on 25 October 2018

6. Full Potential of Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones Has Yet to be Recognised

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... zone in 1999, represent an effective, practical and regional approach to strengthening global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament norms. As the Secretary-General said in his Disarmament Agenda, ...

Created on 23 October 2018

7. India Needs to Reify its Global Nuclear Disarmament Policy

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Pulkit Mohan India's challenge in asserting its stance on global nuclear disarmament requires a precise articulation of its goals and plans, writes Pulkit Mohan, a Research Intern at ...

Created on 07 October 2018

8. UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... [P 11] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | THAI Commemorating that Day against the backdrop of a deteriorating global security environment and to mobilize international efforts towards achieving ...

Created on 30 September 2018

9. UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament

(Project Articles)

... [P 11] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | THAI Commemorating that Day against the backdrop of a deteriorating global security environment and to mobilize international efforts towards achieving ...

Created on 30 September 2018

10. The World Needs a Strong Legal Framework for Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... one of the most important and necessary building blocks of the global architecture of non-proliferation. This treaty, when fully operative, will definitely help foster mutual trust and confidence. Kazakhstan ...

Created on 28 September 2018

11. Upcoming UN General Assembly Promises a Whiff of History

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... rights activist Kehkashan Basu will address the General Assembly. Espinosa has selected her to speak as one of the two representatives of global civil society. She has called the forthcoming High-Level ...

Created on 16 September 2018

12. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

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グローバルな核実験禁止の発効を呼びかけ 【ベルリン／ウィーン／アスタナIDN＝ラメシュ・ジャウラ】 カザフスタンのカイラット・アブドラフマノフ外相と包括的核実験禁止条約機構（CTBTO）準備委員会のラッシーナ・ゼルボ事務局長が、すべての包括的核実験禁止条約（CTBT）署名国に対して、２２年間も停滞しているCTBTを「発効させて核実験の禁止に法的拘束力を持たせるべく全力を傾けるよう」訴えた。 ...

Created on 16 September 2018

13. My Life Will Never be the Same Again

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... staff and from the whole international and global community take, we will ensure that the world is safe and prosperous. Instead of destroying it, instead of bombing it and testing nuclear weapons, we ...

Created on 15 September 2018

14. Kudos for Kazakhstan's 'Leading Role' as UN General Assembly Campaigns for Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... nuclear weapons testing. The aim, according to Kuyukov, is to unify world support against nuclear weapons testing and reinvigorate a global dialogue about its dangers, and Influence the world’s leaders ...

Created on 07 September 2018

15. Test-Ban Treaty Will Produce Tangible Benefits for Humankind

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... infrasound and radionuclide technologies. This system, which is over 90 per cent complete, has truly global reach and is supported by an International Data Centre (IDC) in Vienna that continuously processes ...

Created on 06 September 2018

16. Uncertainty About Whether the U.S. and Russia Can Avert a New Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... nuclear weapons within about 20 minutes of a "go" order. Each side would have hundreds more nuclear weapons available in reserve for counterstrikes. The result would be a global catastrophe. Clearly, ...

Created on 02 September 2018

17. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... has been a beacon of hope," Foreign Minister Abdrakhmanov said in an opening address to the Conference. "However, as stated recently by the UN Secretary General global peace yet remains elusive. Lack of ...

Created on 30 August 2018

18. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Project Articles)

... has been a beacon of hope," Foreign Minister Abdrakhmanov said in an opening address to the Conference. "However, as stated recently by the UN Secretary General global peace yet remains elusive. Lack of ...

Created on 30 August 2018

19. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece of national security policy, and spearhead a global effort to prevent nuclear war. Santa Barbara's ...

Created on 30 August 2018

20. U.S. Goes for 'Space Force All the Way'

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that the world needs a treaty to prevent stationing such weapons in outer space in order to maintain global “strategic stability” among the major powers and enable nuclear disarmament. Although the Outer ...

Created on 21 August 2018