IDN InDepthNews informs on topics related to globalization, global governance and international cooperation http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=ARMS Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:20:27 +0100 http://indepthnews.net/images/rechts.jpg http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=ARMS 292 117 IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters de-de rjaura@globalommedia.com(Ramesh Jaura) jbusse@globalommedia.com(Joerg-Werner Busse) 60 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-29%2014:20:27&key2=1 RAMESH JAURA INTERVIEWS SGI PRESIDENT DAISAKU IKEDA IDN-InDepthNews Service BERLIN (IDN) - A world free of nuclear weapons is no longer a utopia. There is more than one reason to believe that it is a concrete possibility, says Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Buddhist association, Soka Gokkai International (SGI). http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-29%2014:20:27&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-26%2019:33:28&key2=1 BY FAREED MAHDY IDN-InDepthNews Service ISTANBUL (IDN) - Exactly seven years ago, George W. Bush of the United States and Tony Blair of UK fabricated 'evidence' that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and soon after invaded the country. Now their successors Barack Obama and Gordon Brown appear to be fabricating new 'evidence' suggesting that Iran is indeed intending to develop nuclear weapons. It seems that it is about different players but the same game. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-26%2019:33:28&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-24%2021:53:21&key2=1 BY ERNEST COREA IDN-InDepthNews Service WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - Cancellation by the US of its planned but non-existent strategic missile defence system has caused distress and critical comment both here and abroad. The reactions, some of them emotional or highly politicized, have resulted in the broader issues involved receding into the background. More of this later. The cancelled system would have been East Europe-based and would not have been fully operational until "at least 2017" in the opinion of Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates. Initial deployment of its proposed replacement is scheduled for 2011. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-24%2021:53:21&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-20%2023:22:55&key2=1 BY RAMESH JAURA IDN-InDepthNews Service Analysis BERLIN (IDN) - While the world debates a nuclear weapons free world and implications of President Barack Obama's decision to change Bush's plans for missile defence in Europe, a post-Cold War arms race is gathering momentum. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-20%2023:22:55&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-12%2017:51:29&key2=1 BY MARIA LUISA VARGAS IDN-InDepthNews Service MEXICO CITY (IDN) - If Tadatoshi Akiba, the mayor of Hiroshima, had his way, the special UN Security Council session to be chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama on Sep. 24 would decide to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons by 2020 -- a year that would mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the terrible destruction caused by U.S. atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-12%2017:51:29&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-30%2013:18:34&key2=1 BY TARO ICHIKAWA IDN-InDepth News Service TOKYO (IDN) - If a world without nuclear weapons is not to remain distant and just a dream, the nuclear haves must demonstrate political will, leadership and flexibility at the landmark Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference slated for May next year in New York. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-30%2013:18:34&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-25%2001:51:41&key2=1 BY JAYA RAMACHANDRAN IDN-InDepthNews Service GENEVA (IDN) - The UN Conference on Disarmament (CD) is faced with a deadlock again, only three months after it ended 12 years of stalemate. The Conference adopted a consensus document on May 29 that contains a work plan in run up to the crucial nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference next year. The first signs of a deadlock surfaced when Australian Ambassador Caroline Millar, chairperson of the conference convened in Geneva, told delegates August 10 that Pakistan had asked that morning for the programme of work to be reopened. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-25%2001:51:41&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-22%2010:36:43&key2=1 BY FAREED MAHDY IDN-InDepthNews Service Special Correspondent CAIRO (IDN) - Africa, the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent after Asia has now become the world's largest nuclear free zone comprising 53 countries with about one billion people. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-22%2010:36:43&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-18%2019:58:27&key2=1 BY FAREED MAHDY IDN-InDepthNews Service (IDN Middle East Special Correspondent) - A spectre haunted the U.S.-Egyptian summit -- the spectre of a U.S. nuclear umbrella for the Middle East. In run-up to President Hosni Mubarak's first Washington visit in five years, both the Egyptian leader and his senior aides categorically rejected an undeclared U.S. offer to guarantee defence of the region against atomic weapons as part of a comprehensive Middle East peace plan. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-18%2019:58:27&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-07-19%2012:18:05&key2=1 "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones," Albert Einstein. BY BAHER KAMAL MADRID (IDN) - Three months after one of his great goodwill speeches, in Prague last April, in which he promised to work for a world free of nuclear weapons, U.S. President Barack Obama signed with his Russian colleague Dmitry Medvedev, on July 6 in Moscow, an understanding aimed to reduce part of their stockpiles of nuclear weapons within seven years. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-07-19%2012:18:05&key2=1