nuclear disarmament

The Council of Delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement renewed its call for the elimination of nuclear weapons at the IFRC’s General Assembly this month in Sydney, Australia. The resolution, “Working towards the e...
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Nuclear weapons are an existential threat to humanity, and must never be used again, under any circumstances. We therefore welcome the recent shift in the international discourse about nuclear weapons towards the recognition by a number of States that ...
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There is renewed and deep international concern about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from the detonation of nuclear weapons in populated areas. Yet 25 years after the end of the Cold War, nuclear weapons and n...
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We the African affiliates of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, Nobel p...
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The High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament, which took place this past Thursday at the UN General Assembly, was a trip to the woodshed for the nuclear-weapon States. The effort to reframe the discourse about nuclear weapons in terms of their abhorre...
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Civil society statement to the UN high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament Delivered by Joseph Gerson of the American Friends Service Committee on behalf of civil society 26 September 2013, New York I want to begin by invoking the words of Yamaguchi S...
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Hans M. Kristensen and Robert. S. Norris of the Federation of American Scientists have published the latest data on global nuclear weapons arsenals. Of the 17,200 nuclear weapons in the world, about 10,000 are in stockpile. Approximately 4,400 are acti...
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In these very dangerous circumstances, surely the safest course of action would be to have the international community agree on a treaty requiring the destruction of all existing stocks of nuclear weapons and a ban on their future production. Nuclear d...
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Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor of Climatology at Rutgers University and a consultant with IPPNW on the climate effects of nuclear weapons, has posted an informative blog for the American Geophysical Union on the lessons of volcanoes for both glob...
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Fifteen years have elapsed since the Conference on Disarmament last engaged in substantive work.  Briefly in August 1998 the CD tried to fulfil a newly agreed mandate to negotiate a ban on the production of fissile material.  Those effo...
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IPPNW Co-president Ira Helfand explained the medical and humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons at a Hiroshima Day memorial gathering in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 6. Dr. Helfand asked the participants to sign a petition urging President ...
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We greet the morning of the 68th return of “that day.” At 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945, a sing...
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The first time Albert Schweitzer talked of his concerns about the use of nuclear bombs was in a letter to the "Daily Herald" in London, in 1954. The second was his acceptance speech for the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, “The Problem of Peace,” delivered ...
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On June 19, 2013, the Pentagon released a report to Congress outlining the US government’s “Nuclear Employment Strategy.” Although the report indicated some minor alterations in US policy, it exhibited far more continuity than change....Another i...
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Obama's speech, said ICAN co-chair Akira Kawasaki, “should encourage action from all states, not only nuclear armed states and those with extended nuclear deterrence arrangements, but all non-nuclear weapon states as well. It is now time to take bold...
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For more than 50 years the subject of nuclear weapons and nuclear activity in Israel was a non-discursive issue, forbidden to talk about but in secret chambers. For the first time, this important subject was raised from the shadows and discussed openly...
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The notion of a “simplified” programme of work is getting increasing airplay in the Conference of Disarmament (CD) these days. (For those unfamiliar with the chronic stalemate in the CD, agreeing a programme of work setting out the priorities ...
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It is clear that there is new momentum to finally achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons. The recent medical and environmental data shows that these weapons are not only homicidal, but they are ecocidal. Their presence poses an unacceptable risk to a...
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We in SLMK, the Swedish affiliate of IPPNW, have worked hard over a long time to resurrect the failing dedication to nuclear disarmament in the Swedish Foreign Office. We tried repeatedly to get the MFA to sign on to the South African paper at the NPT ...
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