Newsletter (Beyond Nuclear Non-proliferation)ニュースレター「核不拡散を超えて」2018年12月号

ニュースレター「核不拡散を超えて」2018年12月号

UN Rejects Resolution Calling for Russian-U.S. Compliance with Nuclear Treaty
By Ramesh JauraPhoto: Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev (left) and President Reagan (right) signing the INF Treaty in the East Room of the White House in December 1987. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.NEW YORK (IDN) – In a tug of war between two nuclear giants, the UN General Assembly has rejected a resolution calling for U.S.-Russian compliance with and strengthening of the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. And this within months of President Donald Trump’s October announcement to “terminate” the 1987 Treaty “in response to Russian violations of the agreement”.
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Who’s Deceiving Whom? Open Source North Korea Under The Microscope
by Joshua H. PollackPhoto: DPRK state media has been quite transparent about DPRK missile intent | Credit: KCNAThe writer is a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and editor of the Nonproliferation Review. This article first appeared on NKNews.Org on December 11, 2018.NEW YORK | MONTEREY (IDN-INPS) – Along with the features of daily life that few of us could have anticipated a generation ago – smartphones, rent-a-scooters, Greek yogurt in every grocery store – something new has come to the world of think tanks and NGOs: the budding democratization of imagery intelligence.
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New Report Warns of the Perils of Scientific Collaborations with North Korea
By Ramesh JauraPhoto: Kim Jong Un visits with scientists at Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang. Source: Korean Central Television, September 29, 2018.NEW YORK (IDN) – Direct collaboration between North Korean and foreign scientists including those from China, Australia, the United States, Germany, and Romania, is playing “an expanding role” in the regime’s pursuit of technological advancement, a new study has found.
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Parliamentarians for Nuclear Disarmament Emphasize Need to Combat Climate Change
By Aleksandra GadzinskiCollage: RAJ IDN-INPSKATOWICE (IDN) – Nuclear weapons and climate change are the two major existential threats to the survival of humanity, civilization and the planet Earth. With this in view, in January 2018 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the legendary Doomsday Clock to 2 minutes to Midnight, due to the threats from nuclear weapons and climate change, said Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator of the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) at an event on December 9.  [P 17] ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SWEDISH
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Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change Threaten Human Survival
John Avery interviews David KriegerPhoto credit: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Shigeo Hayashi - RA119-RA134COPENHAGEN | SANTA BARBARA, CA (IDN) – One of the five “M’s” can trigger a nuclear war any time: malice, madness, mistake, miscalculation and manipulation. “Of these five, only malice is subject to possibly being prevented by nuclear deterrence and of this there is no certainty. But nuclear deterrence (threat of nuclear retaliation) will not be at all effective against madness, mistake, miscalculation or manipulation (hacking),” David Krieger tells John Scales Avery in an exceptional interview. [P 16] BAHASA | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | THAI
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It is High Time for the U.S. and Russia to Get Off the Treadmill to Catastrophe
Viewpoint by Daryl G. KimballPhoto: President Barack Obama in a New START Treaty meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 18, 2010, flanked among others by former Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Dr. Henry A. Kissinger.The author is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. He wrote this editorial for the December issues of Arms Control Today.WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) – Earlier this year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that “[t]he Cold War is back…but with a difference. The mechanisms and the safeguards to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present.”Indeed, the United States and Russia are planning to spend trillions of dollars to replace and upgrade their nuclear arsenals at force levels that far exceed what is required to deter nuclear attack. China is also improving its nuclear weapons capabilities.
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U.S. INF Treaty Termination May Once Again Trigger Nuclear Arms Race
By Daryl G. Kimball and Kingston A. ReifPhoto: A general view of the NATO meeting on December 4, 2018. Credit: NATO.The following is the text of the analysis in Issue Brief (Volume 10, Issue 10, December 4, 2018) by the Arms Control Association (ACA). Daryl G. Kimball, is the executive director and Kingston A. Reif the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy of ACA. – The EditorWASHINGTON; DC (IDN-INPS) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared [on December 4] Russia in material breach of the landmark 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and announced that the United States plans to suspend U.S. obligations under the treaty in 60 days unless Russia returns to compliance.
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