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1. IAEA Keen to Enhance Nuclear Security in Africa

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Reinhard Jacobsen VIENNA (IDN) – Enhancing regulatory framework for nuclear security in Africa has been on the agenda of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), nuclear watchdog of the United ...

Created on 25 February 2019

2. UN Warns Against Emerging Hypersonic Weapon Technologies

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... powers, Russia and the United States, warns a new study. Nevertheless, several States are actively pursuing novel long-range manoeuvrable weapons, most significantly hypersonic boost-glide systems comprising ...

Created on 24 February 2019

3. On the Precipice of a Multipolar Qualitative Nuclear Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu Following are extensive excerpts from a video briefing by Izumi Nakamitsu, the United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), to the 65-nation Conference ...

Created on 23 February 2019

4. Europe Ventures to Speak Up Against USA

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... 'Trumpism', by prefacing his speech with: "I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump.” There was pin drop silence in the hall filled with some ...

Created on 22 February 2019

5. A Nuclear Arms Race Will Produce No Winners

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... destructive trends in world politics facing us today. [2019-02-21] The main idea guiding us on the path to signing the original treaty was expressed in a joint statement with the United States, adopted ...

Created on 21 February 2019

6. Experts Discuss Prospects Of Peace On The Korean Peninsula

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that agreements matter only when they are implemented. In fact, he proposed a summit meeting of all Asian countries involved and the United States. Joseph Y. Yun, a former U.S. special representative ...

Created on 20 February 2019

7. Experts Discuss Prospects Of Peace On The Korean Peninsula

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... that agreements matter only when they are implemented. In fact, he proposed a summit meeting of all Asian countries involved and the United States. Joseph Y. Yun, a former U.S. special representative ...

Created on 20 February 2019

8. Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

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... by the United Nations in October 1945, established in the aftermath of World War II by the victors of that conflagration, which ensured for themselves a privileged position and corresponding responsibilities ...

Created on 06 February 2019

9. Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

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... by the United Nations in October 1945, established in the aftermath of World War II by the victors of that conflagration, which ensured for themselves a privileged position and corresponding responsibilities ...

Created on 06 February 2019

10. Trashing Treaties: It’s Not Just Trump

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Donald Trump’s monumental strategic mistake in unilaterally withdrawing the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. It is indeed a blunder of the highest degree that not ...

Created on 04 February 2019

11. Next Steps Out Of The INF Treaty Crisis

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... DC (IDN-INPS) – The Trump administration announced on February 1 that effective February 2, the United States will suspend implementation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and ...

Created on 02 February 2019

12. Mayors, Legislators Push For A Nuclear Weapons Free World

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... related military systems, and provocative war games and nuclear threat postures. The INF Treaty is an historic agreement reached in 1987 between the United States and the then Soviet Union to eliminate ...

Created on 31 January 2019

13. Trump’s Missile Defence Buildup Plans Are Dangerous

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... at the Pentagon that the goal of U.S. missile defences is to “ensure we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the United States anywhere, anytime, anyplace.” This would be a costly, unachievable, ...

Created on 30 January 2019

14. Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Sustainable Development: Buddhist Leader Urges Increased Role For Youth

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...  the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) network of universities has been highlighted in a wide-ranging proposal by Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist movement. ...

Created on 28 January 2019

15. New U.S. Report Focuses On Possible Future Iranian ICBM

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... in accuracy, range, and lethality.” The report states that Iran’s “desire to have a strategic counter to the United States” could cause it to deploy an intercontinental ballistic missile and that investments ...

Created on 25 January 2019

16. UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament

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By Devinder Kumar NEW DELHI (IDN) – India is the first member country of the United Nations to have launched a fellowship programme on disarmament and international security for foreign diplomats. ...

Created on 23 January 2019

17. UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament

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By Devinder Kumar NEW DELHI (IDN) – India is the first member country of the United Nations to have launched a fellowship programme on disarmament and international security for foreign diplomats. ...

Created on 23 January 2019

18. Report Advising Sweden Not To Join Nuclear Ban Treaty Disappoints ICAN

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... while also stigmatising the behaviour of other states. The TPNW is no different in this regard, except that it is a United Nations disarmament treaty which was open to all states to negotiate (the nuclear-armed ...

Created on 19 January 2019

19. The Guterres Disarmament Agenda: Continuity And Change

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the United Nations, its Secretariat, and its secretary-general in advancing global disarmament objectives. Continuity That a UN secretary-general would speak out on disarmament should hardly evoke ...

Created on 15 January 2019

20. Pyongyang And Washington Do Not Speak The Same Language

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... means “removing all elements of nuclear threats from the areas of both the north and the south of Korea and also from surrounding areas from where the Korean peninsula is targeted.” The United States has ...

Created on 13 January 2019