| Stockholm Initiative Determined to Achieve the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons By Ramesh Jaura  Photo: Gathering of Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament against the backdrop of the city of Stockholm (August 2020) showing the Kastellet, Vasa Museum, and Nordic Museum.BERLIN | STOCKHOLM (IDN) — The 16-nation Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament has urged the upcoming Tenth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) from January 4-28, 2022, “to demonstrate political leadership, honour commitments and achievements made under the Treaty, and set ourselves on a decisive path towards a world free of nuclear weapons, in the interest of preserving humanity”. [2021-12-25-22] ITALIAN | JAPANESE | NORWEGIAN Read More An Important TPNW Signal from Germany—But Nothing More Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf This article was issued by Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. Photo: Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister. Photocosmos1/Shutterstock BONN (IDN) — The new German coalition government will not rock the foundations of German foreign and security policy. It wants to remain a reliable partner in the EU and NATO. But it sends an important signal for disarmament and arms control efforts. The 177-page coalition agreement contains the following passage on the TPNW: [2021-12-22] Read More A New Cold War Between Russia and The West Is Unnecessary Viewpoint by Jonathan Power  Photo: US President Biden met virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on 15 November 2021. Source: Los Angeles Times.LUND, Sweden (IDN) — George Orwell, the author of “Animal Farm”, the satire on how a dictatorship can slowly but steadily evolve in a democratic society, and “1984”, a novel about a future dystopian dictatorship, was the first person to use the phrase “Cold War” in a 1945 newspaper article, written just after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [2021-12-21] Read More Mayors for Peace Say the Danger of Nuclear War Is Real and Growing By Mayors for Peace The following is the text of an Open Letter Issued by Mayors for Peace to NPT States Parties.  Photo: Protest march in 2015. Credit: Mayors for Peace.HIROSHIMA (IDN) — On behalf of Mayors for Peace, a global non-governmental organization with 8,059 member cities, we are writing to express our views prior to the NPT Review Conference that will open next January in New York.We urge all participants to recall the solemn historical circumstances facing this conference. The use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki had catastrophic humanitarian consequences. [2021-12-18] Read More Elimination of ICBMs Would Greatly Reduce the Chances of a Global Nuclear Holocaust Viewpoint by Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO, USA (IDN) — Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.” If you’d rather not think about them, that’s understandable. But such a coping strategy has limited value. And those who are making vast profits from preparations for global annihilation are further empowered by our avoidance. [2021-12-16-21] GERMAN | JAPANESE | THAI Read More Middle East Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone, Long Elusive, is Making Progress, say Experts By Thalif Deen  NEW YORK (IDN) — A longstanding proposal for a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the politically and militarily volatile Middle East remains elusive. Since 1967, five nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZ) have been established worldwide—in Latin America and the Caribbean, South Pacific, Southeast Asia, Africa and Central Asia. [2021-12-04-20] ARABIC | ITALIAN | JAPANESERead More |
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