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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)

By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – The International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT) has been observed around the world on August 29 since 2010. A new element was added this year when President ...

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)

... it is vital that the world's two largest nuclear-armed powers pursue further measures to reduce their bloated stockpiles and the risk of a nuclear confrontation. Yet, Moscow's brazen effort to interfere ...

Created on 02 September 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... reaffirms the commitment of Kazakhstan and the CTBTO to realizing a world free of nuclear testing and renews their resolve to achieve the entry into force of the CTBT. "For the last 22 years the CTBT ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Project Articles)

... reaffirms the commitment of Kazakhstan and the CTBTO to realizing a world free of nuclear testing and renews their resolve to achieve the entry into force of the CTBT. "For the last 22 years the CTBT ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... consequences that could occur should nuclear weapons be used again. The Resolution notes: The use of even a tiny fraction of these weapons could cause worldwide climate disruption and global famine; ...

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)

... that the world needs a treaty to prevent stationing such weapons in outer space in order to maintain global “strategic stability” among the major powers and enable nuclear disarmament. Although the Outer ...

Created on 21 August 2018

9. Little Progress in Nuclear Disarmament Since Helsinki Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... want to develop nuclear weapons. For the last seven decades, since the end of World War 2, the world is probably living in its most benign years of peace. Yes, there are a number of civil wars but interstate ...

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)

... durable peace, security and development by calling for the maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion of the world’s economic and human resources for arms.   For ...

Created on 10 August 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... history. It is a global inspiration for all those who seek to create a safer and more secure world. This city, your city, is a beacon of hope and strength, and a monument to the resilience of its people. ...

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)

... issue we discussed at our meeting...was the reduction of nuclear weapons throughout the world.” But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee July 25 that no specific ...

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)

... the world and the continued dedicated leadership role of several lawmakers, there is a need for Congress to play a more active role in shaping nuclear security policy," noted Kingston Reif, Director for ...

Created on 26 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... I firmly believe that the meeting between the Presidents of the United States and Russia – the world’s most powerful nuclear-armed superpowers – is a momentous occasion that helps avert catastrophic confrontations. ...

Created on 21 July 2018

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

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... over the last 20 years, and now we see them being trashed wholesale. The world leaders responsible are perhaps best described by General Jack D. Ripper in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove: “They have neither ...

Created on 15 July 2018

19. UN Nuclear Watchdog Promotes Global Development Agenda

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of a training course organized by the IAEA, the world's central intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field. At side events, the IAEA, described as the United ...

Created on 13 July 2018

20. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  The world’s largest humanitarian organisation, the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement, has called “on all States to promptly sign, ratify or accede to, and faithfully implement the Treaty on the Prohibition ...

Created on 13 July 2018