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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)

... from member states of the United Nations evoked the catastrophic consequences and suffering caused by the testing and use of nuclear weapons, and called upon countries that have not done so to sign – and ...

Created on 07 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... on September 6, 2018, CTBTO Executive Secretary Dr Lassina Zerbo exhorted "all countries – small and large – that have not yet signed or ratified" the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) "to do ...

Created on 06 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... dramatically. A Russian violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty has put that treaty at risk and the nuclear arms reduction dialogue remains stalled. As a result, each side still ...

Created on 02 September 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... spare no effort to ensure that the nuclear test ban becomes legally binding by achieving the entry into force" of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in limbo for 22 years. [P 09] JAPANESE ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Project Articles)

... spare no effort to ensure that the nuclear test ban becomes legally binding by achieving the entry into force" of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in limbo for 22 years. [P 09] JAPANESE ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... State Assembly member Monique Limón introduced the Resolution emphasizing that since the height of the Cold War, the United States and Russia have dismantled more than 50,000 nuclear warheads, but 15,000 ...

Created on 30 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... President Donald Trump’s urging that “It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space: we must have American dominance in space.” Pence’s announcement was greeted by Trump, tweeting in response, ...

Created on 21 August 2018

8. Little Progress in Nuclear Disarmament Since Helsinki Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to do it. This doesn't sound to me like Putin, the supposed puppet master, was pulling the strings on his marionette, Trump. Let that be, maybe we'll find out the truth soon enough. Meanwhile the massive ...

Created on 21 August 2018

9. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... a new dawn" – and aver that the adoption of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in July 2017 is such a 'threshold'. In a joint appeal 'To the Youth of the World', released to the media ...

Created on 20 August 2018

10. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Project Articles)

... a new dawn" – and aver that the adoption of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in July 2017 is such a 'threshold'. In a joint appeal 'To the Youth of the World', released to the media ...

Created on 20 August 2018

11. Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – The idea that disarmament and arms control are connected to development is not new. Article 26 of the Charter of the United Nations recognizes disarmament as a precondition for ...

Created on 10 August 2018

12. No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, No More Hibakusha

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Guterres said at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony in Japan on 9 August 2018, commemorating the 73rd anniversary of that devastating day. Following are extensive extracts from Guterres' remarks. – The ...

Created on 09 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to be “extremely strong and powerful.” Nor does it appear that the meeting has resulted in any tangible breakthrough toward the goal of improving the strained U.S.-Russian relationship. This includes the ...

Created on 07 August 2018

14. Rising Nuclear Tensions Call For Elimination Of Atomic Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the blinding flash of nuclear destruction, and in the weeks, months and years that followed, and to stand in solidarity with the Hibakusha and their families. JAPANESE What occurred in Hiroshima on ...

Created on 06 August 2018

15. Study Finds Congressional Attention on Nuclear Security Waning as Nuclear Terrorism Threat Persists

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... issue of nuclear security, broadly defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as “security of nuclear materials and the facilities that house them," has all but faded from the U.S. national ...

Created on 26 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... election, giving impetus to a steady drumbeat of demands that Trump cancel the meeting. The New York Times reported, "according to an internal government document, the U.S. has imposed sanctions on 213 ...

Created on 21 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... NATO Summit and the upcoming Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki present the best opportunities in years for today’s leaders to emulate their more distinguished predecessors, who understood that disarmament ...

Created on 15 July 2018

18. UN Nuclear Watchdog Promotes Global Development Agenda

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... presentations of key elements of the IAEA’s capacity building framework for energy planning that integrate the complex challenges associated with the sustainable development goals. The IAEA instructors ...

Created on 13 July 2018

19. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... law, providing a comprehensive prohibition on the last weapons of mass destruction to be declared illegal; the only weapons that could not only end all of us, but deny future generations of our kind and ...

Created on 13 July 2018

20. Iran Sandwiched Between 'Regime Change' Threat and Menacing Discontent Within

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... beginning of 2017 partly turned into "riots". These prompted Iran government spokesmen Mohammad-Baqer Nobakht declare that the government recognizes the people's right to protest within the framework of ...

Created on 09 July 2018