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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... CTBT opened for signature in 1996, 183 States have signed the Treaty, of which 166 have ratified. Only three countries have violated this norm since 1996, and only one country – North Korea – has tested ...

Created on 07 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... verification to monitor an end to nuclear tests in North Korea as part of any denuclearization agreement. The CTBTO and its verification regime can be explicitly called upon to verify this aspect of an ...

Created on 06 September 2018

3. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... facto ban, these tests are unfortunately still taking place. Only one year ago, North Korea conducted its most recent nuclear test." Germany's chief priority therefore continues to be fighting the proliferation ...

Created on 30 August 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Project Articles)

... facto ban, these tests are unfortunately still taking place. Only one year ago, North Korea conducted its most recent nuclear test." Germany's chief priority therefore continues to be fighting the proliferation ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... India, North Korea, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom – hold the rest of the nuclear weapons. In his testimony in support of AJR 33, Rick Wayman, Deputy Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and North Korea – that together possess around 15,000 nuclear weapons – are willing to abandon their atomic arsenal. This is true of NATO member nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, ...

Created on 20 August 2018

7. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Project Articles)

... and North Korea – that together possess around 15,000 nuclear weapons – are willing to abandon their atomic arsenal. This is true of NATO member nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, ...

Created on 20 August 2018

8. Trump and Putin Can Put the Brakes on a New, Potentially More Dangerous, Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  For decades, U.S. leadership has limited the spread of nuclear weapons, drastically reduced the global inventory of these weapons, brought about a halt to all nuclear testing by all but one state (North ...

Created on 07 August 2018

9. A U.S.-Russia Summit That Left Trump In The Hot Seat

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  Putin praised Trump for taking the initiative to resolve the North Korean issue, and his willingness to adhere to the Minsk agreement on the Ukrainian crisis. On Russia's interference in the U.S. elections, ...

Created on 21 July 2018

10. Nuclear Disarmament Is Crucial For Global Security – It Shouldn't Have To Wait

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... have both threatened to withdraw from the INF altogether. Outside of the North Korea-US talks, disarmament and nuclear arms control are all but left out of today’s high-level summits. All the while, ...

Created on 15 July 2018

11. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... in relation to North Korea notwithstanding, no disarmament negotiations are underway, and the nuclear-armed states are collectively investing over US$100 billion annually in refurbishing their weapons ...

Created on 13 July 2018

12. Trump-Putin Summit A New Opportunity To Ban The Bomb

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... negotiating with the long-despised and isolated North Korea, it just might be possible that peace is breaking out, to the great consternation and disapproval of the military-industrial-academic-congressional-media ...

Created on 08 July 2018

13. Diplomacy With North Korea Crucial To Denuclearization

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball Contrary to President Donald Trump’s claim that there is “no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea” following his June 12 summit meeting with Kim Jong Un, the mission ...

Created on 04 July 2018

14. NPT Proves To Be An Exercise In Bad Faith As It Turns 50

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... is a potential bomb factory since its operation produces radioactive waste which can be enriched into bomb-grade fuel for nuclear bombs. North Korea developed its promised “peaceful” nuclear technology ...

Created on 03 July 2018

15. Revolutionary Change Bringing in DPRK From the Cold

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... his North Korean counterpart at the Pan Mun jom border, and China. And then lurking behind was the strange figure of the star retired U.S. basket ball player Dennis Rodman who had established an amazing ...

Created on 22 June 2018

16. Ulaanbaatar Forum Pleads For Denuclearization Leading To Korean Unification

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Chairman of the Blue Banner NGO, a co-organizer of the Forum backed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, told IDN. He added: "There were different views on the possible outcome of the U.S.-North ...

Created on 17 June 2018

17. Substance Eludes Kim-Trump Historic Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  The statement also contains an explicit promise by President Trump to provide security guarantees to North Korea and the reaffirmation of Chairman Kim Jong-un’s “unwavering commitment” to complete denuclearization ...

Created on 16 June 2018

18. The Trump-Kim Singapore Summit Relieves Tensions, Nuclear Dangers Remain

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... by Trump when Mike Pence had referred to the “Libya model” for North Korean nuclear disarmament, and a North Korean official had called Pence a “political dummy.” North Korean officials were understandably ...

Created on 14 June 2018

19. Paving the Way to Denuclearization and Peace with North Korea

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Daryl G. Kimball The author is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. Following is the text of an Issue Brief analyzing the prospects beyond the U.S.-North Korean Summit on June 12 ...

Created on 09 June 2018

20. The Alphabet Soup NPT, CTBT, NBT

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... zone in North East Asia makes some progress, then we will have a very significant strengthening of the NPT. This will require, obviously, the denuclearization of the DPRK. However, there are serious ...

Created on 08 June 2018