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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)

... lives to abolishing nuclear testing as crucial step towards a world free from nuclear weapons. They were both in Kazakhstan August 28 to September 2 participating in the 2018 CTBTO GEM – Youth International ...

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)

... 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

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... issued to mark the International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT) on August 29, he declares: "The danger posed by nuclear weapons is particularly concrete when it comes to nuclear tests. Despite a de ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Project Articles)

... issued to mark the International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT) on August 29, he declares: "The danger posed by nuclear weapons is particularly concrete when it comes to nuclear tests. Despite a de ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. 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

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

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あの日から７３年、依然として幻の「核兵器なき世界」 【ベルリンIDN＝ラメシュ・ジャウラ】 ノーベル平和賞受賞者のアドルフォ・ペレス・エスキベル氏と仏教哲学者の池田大作氏は、「われわれは常に新しい日の夜明けに立っているのである“we are always on the threshold of a new dawn”」というマーチン・ルーサー・キング・ジュニア牧師の言葉を想起すると共に、２０１７年７月の核兵器禁止条約の採択こそが、そうした「新しい日の夜明け（＝境目“threshold”）」であったと断じている。 ...

Created on 29 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... “Space Force all the way!” Pence’s rationale for this disturbing expansion of U.S. militarization to the heavens is that “our adversaries”, Russia and China, “have been working to bring new weapons ...

Created on 21 August 2018

9. Little Progress in Nuclear Disarmament Since Helsinki Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Trump being in Putin's pocket yet when, soon after Trump became president, Putin suggested major cuts in nuclear weapons Trump turned him down. This would have been a fantastic way to start his presidency. ...

Created on 21 August 2018

10. 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

11. 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

12. Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the SDGs. All Member States have committed themselves to taking such an integrated approach. A central concern for disarmament and arms control is the protection of civilians from the impact of weapons. ...

Created on 10 August 2018

13. No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, No More Hibakusha

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of unthinkable carnage. States in possession of nuclear weapons are spending vast sums to modernize their arsenals. More than $1.7 trillion was spent in 2017 on arms and armies – the highest level ...

Created on 09 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... supporting infrastructure. The Trump administration’s 2018 Nuclear Posture Review spells out – with more frightening specificity than before – the circumstances under which use of American nuclear weapons ...

Created on 07 August 2018

15. Rising Nuclear Tensions Call For Elimination Of Atomic Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... thanks to the Hibakusha and the people of Hiroshima for their decades of dedication to educating the world about the threat nuclear weapons pose to our global, national and human security. The world ...

Created on 06 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... place in March 2016, and the high-level political attention it brought to this issue has come to an end. In addition, Russia, which possesses the largest cache of nuclear weapons usable material on the ...

Created on 26 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... briefing by saying, "…we believe it necessary to work together to interact on the disarmament agenda; on military and technical cooperation; on the agenda of non-placement of weapons in space; re-establish ...

Created on 21 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the UN-sanctioned inspection regimes provide a sound technical blueprint for verified elimination of weapons of mass destruction. The OSCE’s various agreements, confidence- ...

Created on 15 July 2018

19. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Tilman Ruff AM Associate Professor Tilman Ruff AM is co-founder and founding chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. ...

Created on 13 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the July 11-12 NATO summit, the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons celebrated its first birthday on July 7 when 122 nations voted a year ago ...

Created on 08 July 2018