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 […]
Nuclear-Weapon States Should Pledge No First Use
By Chie Sunada The writer is the Director of Disarmament and Human Rights at Soka Gakkai International. TOKYO | 21 August 2024 (IDN) — This summer, Hironobu Maekawa, alongside his wife Hiroko, spoke for the first time about an experience from almost eight decades earlier. Just weeks after the August 6, 1945, atomic bombing of […]
Compromise Is a Way Out of the Cold War Turning Hot
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 20 August 2024 (IDN) — Nearly everyone I talk politics to says the world is in a mess. But I live in a student town and most of them have nothing to measure their opinions against. They know not much about the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis, Watergate […]
Kazakhstan Hosts UNODA-backed Non-proliferation Regional Conference
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | NEW YORK |19 August 2024 (IDN) — Nearly twenty years ago, the United Nations Security Council took a consequential step to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by unanimously adopting resolution 1540 (2004). This global instrument requires Governments to prevent non-State actors or terrorists from acquiring, proliferating […]
Nuclear-weapon States Urged to Promote Non-proliferation and Disarmament
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | 11 August 2024 (IDN) — The United States deserves unequivocal accolades for joining Egypt and Qatar in exerting its diplomatic weight to avert a wider war in the Middle East. It is regretful, however, that such zeal was missing at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the Eleventh […]
Nuclear Exercises of Russia – Stark Reminder to Dutch F-16s in Ukraine
By Drago Bosnic The writer is an independent geopolitical and military analyst. OSLO | 5 August 2024 (IDN) — On the very last day of July, the Russian military announced it started “the third and ‘final’ phase of drills to practice the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons”. The Kremlin’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) also initiated […]