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1. Nuclear Arms Control is Going Down a Trumpian Hole

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Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Reacting to the radio interview by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to mark Armistice Day, in which he was reported as saying, “We have ...

Created on 13 November 2018

2. Interfaith Statement Pushes for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

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... agenda, it has also established the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), which is examining  the use of unmanned and increasingly autonomous weapons systems. ...

Created on 11 November 2018

3. Combative Politics and Hostile Discourse Mark UN Disarmament Initiatives

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... First Committee Monitor 2018. [P 13] She is referring to the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security which met from October 8 to November ...

Created on 11 November 2018

4. Combative Politics and Hostile Discourse Mark UN Disarmament Initiatives

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... First Committee Monitor 2018. [P 13] She is referring to the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security which met from October 8 to November ...

Created on 11 November 2018

5. NATO's Gottemoeller Discusses Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence in China

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... environment. China is a leading actor in artificial intelligence and a hub for AI development, which makes this forum an especially appropriate venue for discussion of these issues. For many centuries, ...

Created on 08 November 2018

6. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

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... humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition on such weapons." The conference on October 29-30, 2018, which was attended ...

Created on 08 November 2018

7. Disarmament in Uncertain Times Discussed in Reykjavik

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... humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition on such weapons." The conference on October 29-30, 2018, which was attended ...

Created on 08 November 2018

8. INF Treaty Decision is a Debacle, But Worse May Be Coming

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... Editor WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) – Earlier this year, President Donald Trump told reporters that he wanted to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin "to discuss the arms race, which is getting ...

Created on 01 November 2018

9. The INF Treaty Looks Likely to be a Dead Letter by April 2019

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... He has a long record of research and publication on a wide range of conflict and peace issues. Smith served four years in the UN Peacebuilding Fund Advisory group, two of which (2010–2011) were as Chair. ...

Created on 28 October 2018

10. Experts Underline the Gravity of a Potential Nuclear Conflict

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... disaster of unimaginable scale to which no state or organization has the capacity to adequately respond,” she said. Another speaker, Carlos Umana, President of International Physicians for the Prevention ...

Created on 27 October 2018

11. Participation in Landmark NATO Exercise Reveals Iceland's Dilemma

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... Left-Green MP Kolbeinn Ottarsson Proppe said, in reality it is an exercise in killing other people. "We Icelanders can utilize the unique circumstances in which we live, a country without a military in ...

Created on 25 October 2018

12. Kazakh Initiated Forum Underlines Importance of NWFZs

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... by the General Assembly of the United Nations, which any group of States, in the free exercises of their sovereignty, has established by virtue of a treaty or convention whereby: "1. The statute of total ...

Created on 23 October 2018

13. Full Potential of Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones Has Yet to be Recognised

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... of Tlatelolco, which was signed in in 1967, to the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone, which entered into force in 2009, the world has experienced a growing adherence from States to nuclear weapon-free ...

Created on 23 October 2018

14. Time Out for Nukes!

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... accusing Russia of violating the Intermediate Nuclear Force treaty which eliminated a whole class of land-based conventional and nuclear missiles in Europe, and Russia planning new weapons systems in response ...

Created on 22 October 2018

15. India Needs to Reify its Global Nuclear Disarmament Policy

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... legally binding feature that was introduced on the global nuclear disarmament policy narrative, which did not exist previously in other UN mechanisms such as the NPT and the CTBT. Therefore, it is crucial ...

Created on 07 October 2018

16. Pompeo Heads to Pyongyang in Quest of Denuclearization

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... in talks between the United States and North Korea is "because the U.S. relies on coercive measures which are lethal to trust-building," He listed a number of steps that North Korea has taken, including ...

Created on 05 October 2018

17. UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament

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... more than 50 countries, as well as Observer States and civil society, took the floor to spotlight the many ways in which nuclear weapons endanger humanity – from the modernization of existing arsenals ...

Created on 30 September 2018

18. UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament

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... more than 50 countries, as well as Observer States and civil society, took the floor to spotlight the many ways in which nuclear weapons endanger humanity – from the modernization of existing arsenals ...

Created on 30 September 2018

19. Japan Considers Ways of Shedding the Straitjacket and Go the Whole Hog for Nuclear Abolition

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... of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, which was observed first time in 2014 in accordance with a decision of the UN General Assembly. [P 10] JAPANESE TEXT ...

Created on 30 September 2018

20. Japan Considers Ways of Shedding the Straitjacket and Go the Whole Hog for Nuclear Abolition

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... of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, which was observed first time in 2014 in accordance with a decision of the UN General Assembly. [P 10] JAPANESE TEXT ...

Created on 30 September 2018