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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)

... other nuclear explosions and the need for their cessation as one of the means of achieving the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world. Its origins go back to the unanimous adoption of the General Assembly ...

Created on 07 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Tests. Dr Zerbo shared the podium "with my good friend" Karipbek Kuyukov, ATOM Project Honorary Ambassador who, he said, "is an incredible inspiration" for him and for all those who have dedicated their ...

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)

By Daryl G. Kimball The United States and Russia are rushing forward with costly, ambitious plans to upgrade their Cold War nuclear arsenals and develop new types of destabilizing nuclear weapon, ...

Created on 02 September 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of nuclear weapons and preventing nuclear tests for their further development. "It's clear that we need swift entry into force of the CTBT," Maas adds. It would put in place a binding instrument of international ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Project Articles)

... of nuclear weapons and preventing nuclear tests for their further development. "It's clear that we need swift entry into force of the CTBT," Maas adds. It would put in place a binding instrument of international ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... remarkably successful at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to additional countries. But it has failed to compel the nuclear-armed nations to fulfill their obligation to negotiate in good faith for ...

Created on 30 August 2018

7. Little Progress in Nuclear Disarmament Since Helsinki Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... pressure Trump might authorise their use and that a military used to obeying orders would initiate a launch. "A demented commander-in-chief could start a conflagration that no one could forestall, veto ...

Created on 21 August 2018

8. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of nuclear weapons are spending vast sums to modernize their arsenals," he said. This, Masato Tainaka commented in the The Asahi Shimbun, was "a thinly veiled attack on the Trump administration". Guterres, ...

Created on 20 August 2018

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

(Project Articles)

... of nuclear weapons are spending vast sums to modernize their arsenals," he said. This, Masato Tainaka commented in the The Asahi Shimbun, was "a thinly veiled attack on the Trump administration". Guterres, ...

Created on 20 August 2018

10. Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... sites. The safe and secure management of stockpiles, including the identification of surpluses and their destruction, helps prevent such incidents from occurring. Through the development and dissemination ...

Created on 10 August 2018

11. No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, No More Hibakusha

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that the world needs and they seek to build. From the other side of the apocalypse, the hibakusha have raised their voices on behalf of the entire human family.  We must listen. There can be no ...

Created on 09 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... poised to spend more than $1.7 trillion over the next 30 years on maintaining and upgrading its nuclear delivery systems (bombers, land-based missiles, and submarines) and their associated warheads and ...

Created on 07 August 2018

13. 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

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and the exodus of congressional members and staff who formed their worldviews through the Cold War. To better understand past and present congressional engagement on nuclear security, Partnership for ...

Created on 26 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the working group on anti-terrorism; help Syrian refugees go back to their homes; and to help Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan to decrease the migratory pressure upon the European states." ...

Created on 21 July 2018

16. 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

17. UN Nuclear Watchdog Promotes Global Development Agenda

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... said, nuclear techniques make a contribution to the sustainability of cities and their communities. "In the areas of energy, water, sanitation, waste management and air pollution nuclear technologies ...

Created on 13 July 2018

18. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”. Yet none of the nuclear-armed states are fulfilling their legally-binding obligation to disarm. Some hopeful but uncertain developments ...

Created on 13 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Iranian economy. Traders shut their stores in June 2018 to protest rising prices and the weakening of Iran’s currency as Iranian officials took action to allay concerns that an economic crisis was looming. ...

Created on 09 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and Putin repeats Gorbachev’s offer to the U.S. that he is willing for both countries to rid the world of all their nuclear weapons if Reagan drops his plans to dominate and control the military use of ...

Created on 08 July 2018