By Michael Biontino* This commentary was issued by The European Leadership Network. BERLIN | 8 December 2024 (IDN) — In its 79th session (2024), the UN Committee on Disarmament and International Security (First Committee) ad-opted with an overwhelming majority a resolution through which the SecretaryGeneral is tasked to seek the views of Member States on […]
Ukraine War: UN Peace Forces as Part of a Comprehensive Peace Deal?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 20 November 2024 (IDN) — To its credit the Soviet Union and its successor state, Russia, has long supported UN peacekeeping, a practice that originated in 1960 in the time of UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, who evolved the concept during the great Congolese civil war when it was in […]
Nuclear Disarmament Is More Important Than Tackling Global Warming
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 22 October 2024 (IDN) — There’s a lot of end-of-the-world hyperbole around on climate change, as every mass flooding is matched by outrageous wildfires. So there should be. But it blankets out other important causes that are even more imminently important—wiping out malaria, sleeping sickness and introducing pure water […]
Would Trump Use Nuclear Weapons?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 16 October 2024 (IDN) — In the Cold War days, some of us used to say, “Better red than dead”—to rebuff those who believed in nuclear deterrence as a way of political life that gave them security. Now those of us who are frightened that Trump could start a nuclear […]
From High Noon to Steadfast Noon
By Tariq Rauf* VIENNA | 14 October 2024 (IDN) — As the ink dried on the announcement of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to Nihon Hidankyo, the grassroots movement of the Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki); the merchants of death continued weapons supplies to ongoing wars in central […]
2024 Nobel Peace Prize Win Could Not Have Come at a More Important Moment
By Josepth Gerson* This article was first published in Common Dreams. It is being republished under Creative Commons 3.0 license NEW YORK | 13 October 2024 (IDN) — The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo is long overdue and could not come at a more important time. The Hibakusha (A-bomb witness/survivors) of Nihon Hidankyo […]
UN Pleads for Elimination of Nuclear Weapons as the Goal Goes on Distance
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | 29 September 2024 (IDN) — Global nuclear disarmament has been the highest arms control priority of the United Nations since 1946 when the General Assembly resolved to establish the Atomic Energy Commission (dissilved in 1952), with a mandate to make specific proposals for the control of nuclear energy and the […]
Is NATO Close to Starting War with Russia?
By Stephen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 18 September 2024 (IDN) —There is no other way to interpret it: Washington and its client NATO members are declaring war on Russia. That is the direct meaning of the forthcoming visit of Zelensky […]
US Nuclear Arsenal: Do Kamala Harris and Donald Trump Think Alike?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 17 September 2024 (IDN) — So far in the US electoral contest there has not been a significant difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on nuclear armaments—unlike in the fight in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Indeed, many observers have considered that the right-winger, Nixon, […]
Iran: Neutralizing Nuclear Threat Without Force or Sanctions
By Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK 22 August 2024 (IDN)— All past efforts to block Iran’s march toward becoming a nuclear power have failed. It is time for the US and Israel to develop a new strategy that factors in the possibility that Iran will become a nuclear power but renders it futile without using […]