IDN InDepthNews informs on topics related to globalization, global governance and international cooperation http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=ARMS Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:50:55 +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=2010-07-30%2016:50:55&key2=1 By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TOKYO (IDN) - Nuclear abolition is not yet around the corner. But the United States, Britain and France have apparently come round to the view that the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an appropriate opportunity to underline a paradigm shift under way. Reliable reports say that senior officials of the three nuclear powers will for the first time attend the annual ceremony in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 to commemorate the atomic bombing of the city in 1945. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-30%2016:50:55&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-21%2000:51:55&key2=1 IDN Special IDN-InDepth NewsInterview of Daisaku Ikeda BERLIN/TOKYO (IDN) - An eminent Buddhist thinker, Daisaku Ikeda, has called for an early start of negotiations for a global treaty to abolish nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction, to coincide -- ideally -- with the 70th anniversary of the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An international treaty in the form of a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) would prohibit the development, testing, production, stockpiling, transfer, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons . . . http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-21%2000:51:55&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-16%2020:20:45&key2=1 By Jeremy Scahill* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NEW YORK (IDN) - The United States military is in the process of taking bids from private war contractors to secure and ship massive amounts of U.S. military equipment through sensitive areas of Pakistan into Afghanistan, where it will then be distributed to various U.S. Forward Operating Bases and other facilities. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-16%2020:20:45&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-29%2010:02:25&key2=1 By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - Gloom-and-doom headlines in the waning days of the 2010 review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) caused many observers to assume that negotiations would collapse in deadlock, but the Final Declaration of the conference was adopted without dissent. Consensus on potentially contentious issues was a significant milestone on the path toward nuclear disarmament. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-29%2010:02:25&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-29%2002:25:41&key2=1 By Jamshed Baruah IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) - While the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sounds rather upbeat on the outcome of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference that wrapped up on May 28, official Washington's reaction is rather critical of some important parts of the 28-page final document. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-29%2002:25:41&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-24%2010:22:31&key2=1 By Fareed Mahdy IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis ISTANBUL (IDN) - Arab delegates to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review conference in New York (May 3-28), are confronted with strong U.S. resistance to their demand for a nuclear weapons free Middle East. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-24%2010:22:31&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-12%2002:17:12&key2=1 By Jamshed Baruah IDN-InDepth NewsInterview BERLIN/TOKYO (IDN) - As senior officials from around the world negotiate in New York an agreement aimed at curbing the spread of nuclear weapons, a close look at the attitudes of the youth in six countries offers a critical insight into the need for spreading word about the culture of peace. Youth members of Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist association with 12 million members around the world, asked their peers what they think about nuclear weapons and their abolition. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-12%2002:17:12&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-04-30%2000:29:11&key2=1 By Jayantha Dhanapala* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - The quinquennial ritual of preparing for the Review Conference of the states parties of the Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will reach its climax (or anticlimax) from May 3-27 in New York. Action plans for the three main pillars of the NPT - nonproliferation, disarmament and peaceful uses of nuclear energy - are being composed in the hope of achieving a consensus. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-04-30%2000:29:11&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-04-29%2000:48:09&key2=1 By Fareed Mahdy IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis ISTANBUL (IDN) - Strongly backed by Arab countries and Turkey, Egypt has escalated its intensive diplomatic offensive for freeing the Middle East of all kinds of weapons of mass destruction, starting with nuclear arms. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-04-29%2000:48:09&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-04-27%2000:17:18&key2=1 By Badriya Khan* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BARCELONA (IDN) - The world is over-armed; the world is over-hungry. This is not a new slogan - this is a proven fact showing that the world spends well over 1 trillion dollars a year on weapons, while more than one billion people are hungry. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-04-27%2000:17:18&key2=1