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Tactical nuclear weapons were designed to be used on the battlefield rather than for strategic defense, but that doesn’t mean there’s a plausible case for using them.
Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses (…)
When the unthinkable becomes thinkable, it’s a crisis. And when the unthinkable actually happens, it is a catastrophe. Much effort will be spent on rebuilding what has been destroyed in Ukraine, and not nearly enough effort will be spent on rethinking our assumptions. Because we were wrong in (…)
Dear friends, The 2020 NPT Review Conference, which has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, will be held at the UN headquarters in New York on January 4-28, 2022. Based on the UN Charter that makes it a rule to refrain from threat or use of force in international relations and (…)
I am honored to bring heartfelt greetings of solidarity to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to the participants of this World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs , from the Asia Europe People’s Forum (AEPF).
AEPF is a broad network of major regional and national civil society (…)
The 2021 World Conference against A & H Bombs, taking place shortly after the historic achievement of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), renews its pledge to move forward toward the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, at the time when people (…)
At their recent meeting, Biden and Putin agreed to set up discussions about controlling nuclear weapons.
Before looking at decisions the U.S. took in recent years that have increased the danger of nuclear war, it is useful to recall how the nuclear age began.
It was the U.S. that developed (…)
Photo Credit: (The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons/Google Images)
The most significant multilateral treaty for nuclear disarmament in fifty years came into force on January 22. The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has now been ratified by (…)
In 1945, United States scientists who worked on the first nuclear weapons (two were used against Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki) set up an organization to print The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which warned of the dangers of nuclear weapons. As the Soviet Union began to develop such (…)
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons founder describes weapons review as ‘a chilling document’ that echoes cold war era.
Australia’s Nobel peace laureate says America’s aggressive new nuclear policy is “a blueprint for nuclear war” that returns the world to a cold war mentality. (…)
The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for the campaign’s “ground-breaking efforts” to secure a prohibition on such weapons.
In July, ICAN was at the forefront of international efforts to establish a global agreement against (…)
Maybe you thought America’s nuclear arsenal, with its thousands of city-busting, potentially civilization-destroying thermonuclear warheads, was plenty big enough to deter any imaginable adversary from attacking the U.S. with nukes of their own. Well, it turns out you were wrong.
The Pentagon (…)
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a coalition of hundreds of NGOs from dozens of countries, puts in stark relief the irresponsibility of those states – including France – who base their security on dissuasion by terror. (…)
Text of CNDP Statement following the Award of the Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN.
The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) with a deep sense of solidarity, warmly welcomes the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). By bestowing (…)
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, the Switzerland-based coalition of civil society groups that led successful efforts to approve a nuclear weapons ban treaty. The UN voted in favor of the treaty in July; it will take effect (…)
Dear friends:
In whatever part of the world you are in, surely you are faced by many challenges that hinder every human being from living lives of peace, security and prosperity. But among all issues, there is one that we should never forget and we should continue to fight for - the abolition (…)
Phil Hearse writes about Trump’s threat of genocide in North Korea, as US Secretary of Defence, General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis puts it: “Kim Jong-un risks the end of his regime and the destruction of his people.”
Donald Trump’s threats of ‘fire and fury’ against North Korea are an expression (…)
We are witnessing a striking shift in the global paradigm of how the world views nuclear weapons.
On July 7, 2017, at a UN Conference mandated by the UN General Assembly to negotiate a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, the only weapons of mass destruction yet to be banned, 122 nations (…)
For more than seven decades, the international community has grappled with the threat of nuclear weapons. At the United Nations on Friday, July 7th, the vast majority of the world’s governments made clear their total rejection of these abhorrent devices, concluding a treaty to prohibit them, (…)
A treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons was adopted by an overwhelming vote and met with loud cheers this week at the United Nations. More than 70 years in the making, the treaty offers widely agreed principles, commitments, and mechanisms for ending the nuclear weapons age. Getting here (…)
Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima, but the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is in Asia to promote militarism and imperial rivalries, writes Khury Petersen-Smith.
MAYBE HISTORY will measure Barack Obama’s tenure as president not by the number of years that he spent in office, but by the number (…)
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