US uranium laser enrichment technology threatens Nuclear Non-Profileration...
Source: Voice of Russia Original post date: 26 December 2013The uranium laser enrichment technology that has been given a new impetus in the US is capable of knocking the bottom out of the Treaty on...
View ArticleJapan's energy pact with Turkey raises nuclear weapons concerns
Source: Asahi Shimbun (Japan) Original post date: 7 January 2014A pact required for Japan’s first nuclear plant export after the Fukushima disaster faces opposition over concerns about a possible...
View ArticleDoomsday Clock Remains Still
Source: NTI's Global Security Newswire Original post date: 14 January 2014The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Monday said its famous Doomsday Clock would stay at five minutes to midnight,...
View ArticleMinisters ignore vote, JSF jet fighter could carry nuclear weapons
Source: Dutch News (Netherlands) Original post date: 14 January 2014The Joint Strike Fighter may be used to carry nuclear weapons in the future, according to defence minister Jeanine...
View ArticleThe long slog toward a nuclear-free world
Source: Washington Post Original post date: 14 January 2014Efoorts by Iran and North Korea to acquire nuclear weapons have been at the forefront of diplomacy and international concern over the past...
View ArticleReturn arms-grade plutonium: U.S.
Source: The Japan Times/Kyodo News Original post date: 27 January 2014Washington has been pressing Tokyo to return over 300 kg of mostly weapons-grade plutonium given to Japan for research purposes...
View ArticleAfghanistan Exit Is Seen as Peril to C.I.A. Drone Mission
Source: New York Times Original post date: 26 January 2014The risk that President Obama may be forced to pull all American troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year has set off concerns...
View ArticleInside China: Ukraine gets nuclear umbrella
Source: Washington Times (US) Original post date: 12 December 2013Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych escaped protests in his country last week with a state visit to Beijing, where he received...
View ArticleTaking Action to Ban Nuclear Weapons
Source: Huffington Post (US) Original author(s): Jody Williams Original post date: 11 February 2014When one thinks of a sunny Mexican resort, the devastation of nuclear weapons is not usually what...
View ArticleMPs criticise UK refusal to attend nuclear weapons conference
Source: The Guardian (UK) Original author(s): Richard Norton-Taylor Original post date: 11 February 2014Britain will not attend an international conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear...
View ArticleThe UK government's stand against humanitarian disarmament
Date: 13 February 2014Dr Rebecca JohnsonOver 140 governments are gathering in Nayarit, Mexico, for the Second International Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, hosted by the...
View ArticleDesmond Tutu: Imagine world without nuclear weapons
Source: CNN Original author(s): Desmond Tutu Original post date: 13 February 2014In February 1990, the same month that Nelson Mandela, also known as Madiba, walked free after 27 years behind bars,...
View ArticleNo nuclear powers to participate in confab on humanitarian impact
Source: Kyodo News (Japan) Original post date: 12 February 2014The United States, Russia and the three other countries allowed to have nuclear weapons under the existing nonproliferation regime are...
View ArticleTrident fleet's future needs more debate, independent report says
Source: The Guardian (UK) Original author(s): Richard Norton-Taylor Original post date: 10 February 2014Britain's nuclear weapons are irrelevant to any existing and foreseeable threats posed by...
View ArticleNuke Summit Agenda Circumvents Armed Powers
Source: Inter Press Service (IPS) Original post date: 11 February 2014When over 50 world leaders meet in the Netherlands next month for a Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), the primary focus will be on...
View ArticleContinuing Threats: The humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons from a UK...
Date: 14 February 2014Dr Rebecca JohnsonThis PDF offers a UK perspective on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. It draws on case studies produced by civil society partners in the...
View ArticleBanning nuclear weapons: point of no return
Date: 19 February 2014Dr Rebecca Johnson“Nayarit is a point of no return” declared Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo, Mexico’s Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, delivering the Chair’s...
View ArticleKurz: “Paradigm Shift in Nuclear Disarmament is overdue”
Date: 13 February 2014 Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Austria announces international conference in Vienna. Global movement puts humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons in the center of...
View ArticleChair's Summary of Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons Conference,...
Date: 14 February 2014 Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo, Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Mexico The attached doc is a PDF of the Chair's Summary of the Conference on the...
View ArticleChuck Hagel's nuclear exemption
Source: Los Angeles Times (US) Original post date: 26 February 2014The headlines on the Pentagon budget unveiled by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel this week were all about austerity: the smallest...
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