The following is the text of a statement by Sergio Duarte, President, and Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Secretary-General of the 1995 Nobel Peace Laureate Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs on the Ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by 50 States. ROME (IDN) – Pugwash notes with deep appreciation the deposit […]
Precarious Multilateralism Seizes CTBTO Nuclear-Test-Ban Organization
By Stephanie Liechtenstein*, Passblue VIENNA (IDN) – For the first time in its 24-year history, state parties to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a multilateral agreement that bans all nuclear testing worldwide, have taken a controversial decision by a two-thirds majority. Decisions in the treaty’s body are usually taken by consensus. The majority decision on […]
Forum Calls for New Approach to NE Asian Denuclearization and Economic Development
By Alan Gua ULAANBAATAR (IDN) – Former Mongolian Ambassador to the United Nations and Chairman of Blue Banner NGO of Mongolia, Dr Jargalsaikhany Enkhsaikhan, believes that “establishing a Northeast Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone (NEA-NWFZ) and providing North Korea with a joint, credible mini-Marshall Plan might be a win-win solution for the Korean Peninsula as well as […]
UN Chief Concerned About Standstill in Arms Control Talks
By Jamshed Baruah GENEVA (IDN) – “We need a strengthened, inclusive and renewed multilateralism built on trust and based on international law that can guide us to our shared goal of a world free of nuclear weapons,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, commemorating the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September […]
U.S. Shifts Arms Control Strategy with Russia
By Kingston Reif and Shannon Bugos While Kingston Reif is the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy, Shannon Bugos is research assistant at the Arms Control Association. WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) – The Trump administration has softened its demand that China immediately participate in trilateral nuclear arms control talks with the United States and Russia […]
Extinguishing Prometheus’ Nuclear Flame: International Day Against Nuclear Tests
By Tariq Rauf* VIENNA (IDN) – The first nuclear explosive device was detonated at the Alamogordo Test Range in the New Mexico desert in the United States of America on July 16, 1945, and then on August 6 and 9 the US carried out the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the next seven […]
Nuclear Testing Should Have No Place in the 21st Century
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has in a message for the International Day against Nuclear Tests warned of resurgent nuclear menace and called for a complete ban on testing. Following is the full text of his message. Commemorated annually since 2010 on the anniversary of the closure of […]
Three More Countries Ratify the UN Treaty to Ban the Bomb
By Tony Robinson The writer is Humanist Movement activist, coordinating committee member of Abolition 2000 – Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, author of the book “Coffee with Silo and the quest for meaning in life” and producer of the film “The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons”. The article originally appeared on Pressenza, […]
Japanese and American Catholics Take on the Bomb
By Drew Christiansen Writer Drew Christiansen, S. J., is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He is the co-editor with Carole Sargent of A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown University Press, […]
New START’s Future Continues to Hang in the Balance
By Kingston Reif and Shannon Bugos While Kingston Reif is director for disarmament and threat reduction policy, Shannon Bugos is research assistant at the Arms Control Association. The analysis below was first published in July/August 2020 issue of Arms Control Today WASHINGNTON, D.C. (IDN) – The United States and Russia concluded the latest round of […]