The strength is not in nuclear bombs and missiles. The trust of the world community is a real defence,” said the Kazakh President at the Security Council stressing that only nuclear disarmament and confidence-building measures through the complete elimination of nuclear arsenals constitute the only and absolute guarantee against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. “It is the largest nuclear powers that should be in the lead of the struggle for a nuclear weapons-free world and set an example by reducing WMD. This does not mean that the rest of the countries should stand by and that their actions are irrelevant”, said Nazarbayev.
INF Treaty in jeopardy: Gorbachev appeals to the Presidents of Russia and the U.S.
INF was the start of the process of radically cutting back nuclear arsenals, which was continued with the 1991 and 2010 strategic arms reduction treaties and the agreements reducing tactical nuclear weapons. The scale of the process launched in 1987 is evidenced by the fact that, as Russia and the United States reported to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in 2015, 80 percent of the nuclear weapons accumulated during the Cold War have been decommissioned and destroyed. ... The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, however, is now in jeopardy. I call upon Russia and the United States to prepare and hold a full-scale summit on the entire range of issues. It is far from normal that the presidents of major nuclear powers meet merely “on the margins” of international gatherings. I hope that the process of preparing a proper summit is in the works even now…
Nobel Peace Prize 2017: Ian Sinclair interviews Rebecca Starkey, ICAN
This year’s Nobel prize winners are changing the culture on nuclear weapons –
Changing the culture around nuclear weapons to seeing them as just another dangerous weapon of mass destruction,
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on U.S.-North Korea Relations
The Carter Center (Atlanta/Georgia, USA) recently published a statement published 10 August 2017, a statement
Bulletin of atomic Scientists: How will South Korea and Japan respond to North Korea?
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Martin Schulz: No Arms Increase in Germany and Europe
The Chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and candidate for chancellor, Martin Schulz, stated
Latest News on UN Nucelar Weapons Ban Consultations by ICAN
The non-governmental organisation ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) provides up-to-date
Hiroshima mayor calls on U.N. to adopt nuclear weapons ban treaty
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Thursday strongly called for the adoption of a treaty to legally ban nuclear
UN Conference for Nuclear Weapon Ban releases Draft for Resolution
As a intermediate result of the recent negotiation between 132 UN member states in late march 2017, on May 22
