Tag Archives: United Nations

A controversial ban and the long game to delegitimize nuclear weapons via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2017/07/15 by nfield

Sharon Squassoni Sometimes it pays to be in the room when your future is being negotiated, even if it includes a ban on your favorite weapons. This is what nuclear weapon states and their allies may find out by the … Continue reading →

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Anti-Nuclear Bomb Activists Arrested at U.S. Mission to U.N. via Reuters

Posted on 2017/06/20 by nfield

NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than a dozen activists were arrested for disorderly conduct after they blocked the entrances to the United States mission to the United Nations on Monday to protest Washington’s decision to boycott negotiations on a nuclear … Continue reading →

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The ban treaty must address the scientifically predicted consequences of nuclear war via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2017/05/25 by nfield

The preamble of the treaty to ban nuclear weapons now under consideration at the UN will be greatly strengthened if it includes a summary of the long-term environmental consequences of nuclear war, as described by a series of peer-reviewed studies … Continue reading →

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Radiation and gender: One basis for new nuclear weapons treaty via Pressenza

Posted on 2017/05/25 by nfield

By the Nuclear Information and Resource Service and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research This week, an historic nuclear weapons ban proposal was unveiled at the United Nations. The proposed agreement recognizes, for the first time, that nuclear weapons … Continue reading →

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A first draft of the world’s first nuclear weapons ban via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2017/05/25 by nfield

Forty-five years ago, the international community signed a global convention banning biological weapons. Two decades later, it concluded a similar accord categorically rejecting chemical weapons. Now, after decades of deadlock over disarmament, the United Nations is developing a treaty to … Continue reading →

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Secretary-General’s message on the International Day Against Nuclear Tests [scroll down for French version] via United Nations

Posted on 2016/08/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

For nearly a decade as United Nations Secretary-General, I have witnessed many of the worst problems in the world as well as our collective ability to respond in ways that at times seemed impossible. Our ambitious new 2030 Agenda for … Continue reading →

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U.N. panel backs starting negotiations to ban nuclear weapons via The Japan Times

Posted on 2016/08/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

GENEVA – A U.N. working group on nuclear disarmament on Friday adopted a report recommending to the General Assembly that negotiations to outlaw nuclear weapons begin in 2017. […] The report includes opinions from Japan and NATO member nations that … Continue reading →

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Kazakhstan calls for nuclear free world by 2045 via The Washington Post

Posted on 2016/05/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

UNITED NATIONS — Kazakhstan is seeking to encourage a wide ranging discussion of the role of religion in fighting extremism and terrorism and it is calling for a nuclear free world by 2045, the 100th anniversary of the United Nations, … Continue reading →

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At UN, Pakistan slams ‘nuclear doublespeak’ via DAWN

Posted on 2016/04/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has assailed the double standards practiced by some states, which preach nuclear disarmament but fail to take necessary steps themselves. Speaking in a session of the UN Disarmament Commission, a subsidiary of the General Assembly, Ambassador Maleeha … Continue reading →

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U.N. secretary-general calls for nuclear free world on 70th anniversary of A-bombings via The Mainichi

Posted on 2015/08/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

NEW YORK — On the occasion of the 70th anniversary this month of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon submitted an article to the Mainichi Shimbun. The secretary-general wrote that “there remain serious disagreements” … Continue reading →

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