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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)

... resolution by on December 2, 2009, which embodied the culmination of efforts by Kazakhstan and many other like-minded countries to acknowledge the vital importance of the decision made by President Nursultan ...

Created on 07 September 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... items in the arms control agenda. Because of the CTBT, we have transitioned away from a world in which nuclear tests were carried out with near impunity. Since the CTBT opened for signature in 1996, ...

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)

... scheduled to expire. Without a decision to extend the treaty, which is allowable under Article XIV, there will be no legally binding limits on the world's two largest arsenals for the first time since ...

Created on 02 September 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... TEXT VERSION PDF   This clarion call is backed by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas of Germany, which has been elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for 2019-2020. In a statement ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

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... TEXT VERSION PDF This clarion call is backed by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas of Germany, which has been elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for 2019-2020. In a statement ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

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By J C Suresh TORONTO (IDN) – The State Senate of California, the most populous state in the United States, has adopted Assembly Joint Resolution 33 (AJR 33), which calls upon the federal government ...

Created on 30 August 2018

7. Little Progress in Nuclear Disarmament Since Helsinki Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... troops. It is also leaning towards widening the conditions under which nuclear weapons may be used first in response to a non-nuclear act of aggression. This will revoke Obama-era assurances given to ...

Created on 21 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... TEXT VERSION PDF The statement also refers to the international symposium 'Perspectives for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament', which Pope Francis convened at the Vatican ...

Created on 20 August 2018

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

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... TEXT VERSION PDF The statement also refers to the international symposium 'Perspectives for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament', which Pope Francis convened at the ...

Created on 20 August 2018

10. Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... peace and lasting conditions for security are necessary for long-term development, we need to better understand the diverse areas in which achieving disarmament objectives can contribute to the implementation ...

Created on 10 August 2018

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

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... most important area in which U.S. and Russian security interests continue to align: reducing the risk of catastrophic nuclear war and curbing a qualitative nuclear arms race. The United States is ...

Created on 07 August 2018

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

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... poses new challenges. The report warns that the task of plugging the gaps and reducing material stockpiles is likely to be more challenging now that the summit process, the last gathering of which took ...

Created on 26 July 2018

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

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... and good for Russia, but it is good for the world." 200 years of diplomatic relations From the early 20th century, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, of which Russia was the core, were basically on a collision ...

Created on 21 July 2018

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

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... (INF), which helped dramatically reduce US-Soviet tensions in Europe. But this year’s NATO summit began with an openly acrimonious exchange over the allies’ relative defence spending, and the US and Russia ...

Created on 15 July 2018

15. UN Nuclear Watchdog Promotes Global Development Agenda

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  Topical studies on sustainable development and climate change. Addressing the session on SDG 6, which calls for clean water and sanitation for all people, Martin Krause, Director at the IAEA’s Department ...

Created on 13 July 2018

16. 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

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... own people, which is struggling with an increasingly disquieting economic situation. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader and apparently the sole ruler, is blaming the U.S. for protests in the ...

Created on 09 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... was to follow the endless step by step path of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, now 50 years old this month, which has only led to nuclear weapons forever. In light of the new détente Trump succeeded in ...

Created on 08 July 2018

19. Diplomacy With North Korea Crucial To Denuclearization

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... converted to peaceful uses under international supervision. This would be a major undertaking that could build on the experience from U.S. and Russian Cooperative Threat Reduction programs, which helped ...

Created on 04 July 2018

20. NPT Proves To Be An Exercise In Bad Faith As It Turns 50

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... nuclear weapons, while non-nuclear weapons states vowed not to acquire them. Every country in the world agreed to join the treaty except for India, Pakistan, and Israel which then went on to develop their ...

Created on 03 July 2018