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Striving to Build a Broader Support for the Nuclear Ban Treaty<\/a>
By Ramesh Jaura\"Photo:BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) \u2013 The second session of\u00a0the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference<\/a>\u00a0in April and the\u00a0UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament<\/a>\u00a0in May will draw the focus of the international community in the coming weeks as it moves toward paving the way for a nuclear-weapons free world.Since the\u00a0Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)<\/a>\u00a0was adopted in July 2017, “these will be the first venues for debate and deliberation that will include both the nuclear-weapon and nuclear-dependent states,” says eminent Buddhist philosopher\u00a0Daisaku Ikeda<\/a>, founder and President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI<\/a>) with 12 million members in 192 countries and regions.\u00a0[P 39]\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSON<\/a>\u00a0PDF<\/a>\u00a0
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Trump Breaks Nuclear Taboos, Strives For Supremacy<\/a>
By Daryl G. Kimball and Kingston A. Reif\"Photo:Daryl G. Kimball is Executive Director of the\u00a0Arms Control Association<\/a>\u00a0and Kingston A. Reif its Director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy. This article appeared as Issue Brief on February 15, 2018 with the caption\u00a0‘The New U.S. Nuclear Strategy is Flawed and Dangerous. Here\u2019s Why.’<\/a>\u00a0It is being reproduced with permission from the Association. \u2013 The Editor.<\/em>WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) \u2013 In December 2016, President Donald Trump\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0that the United States \u201cmust greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability\u201d and later told MSNBC that he would \u201coutmatch\u201d and \u201coutlast\u201d other potential competitors in a nuclear arms race. The comments mostly prompted condemnation in the United States and around the world and raised concerns about the direction the president would take U.S. nuclear weapons policy.Those concerns, it turns out, were well justified.
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From Tlatelolco to the UN Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty<\/a>
Viewpoint by Jorge Alberto L\u00f3pez Lechuga\"Photo:Jorge Alberto L\u00f3pez Lechuga is Research and Communication Officer of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL<\/a>). The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of OPANAL and its Member States. \u2013 The Editor<\/em>MEXICO (IDN) \u2013 On February 2, the Government of the U.S. published the\u00a02018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR)<\/a>, which includes the strategy to increase the role of nuclear weapons in national security. The NPR considers the need to double the military budget from 3% to 6.4% in order to modernize the U.S. arsenal.\u00a0[P 38]\u00a0ITALIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSON<\/a>\u00a0PDF<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NORWEGIAN |\u00a0<\/a>PORTUGUESE |\u00a0<\/a>SPANISH<\/a>
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Transforming Risks on the Korean Peninsula into Stable Peace in Northeast Asia<\/a>
By Katsuhiro Asagiri\"Photo:TOKYO (IDN) \u2013 ‘Building Stable Peace in Northeast Asia: Managing and Transforming Risks on the Korean Peninsula’ was the subject of a colloquium in which regional experts on peace and security, policy makers and civil society organizations from the United States, China, South Korea and Japan participated against the backdrop of a volatile situation in the region.In the run-up to North Korea claiming that it had conducted its first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that can “reach anywhere in the world,” 1995 Nobel Peace Laureate Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs expressed concern in a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0on May 4, 2017 that “the mounting confrontation with North Korea is raising grave dangers.” [P 37]\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSON<\/a>\u00a0PDF<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0KOREAN TEXT VERSON<\/a>\u00a0PDF\u00a0
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Kick Off To A Nuclear Race Threatening Doomsday<\/a>
Viewpont by Sergio Duarte\"Photo:The writer is President of the 1995 Nobel Peace Laureate\u00a0Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs<\/a>\u00a0and a former Ambassador of Brazil who served in key posts. He was President of the 2005 Seventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT<\/a>), and UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs with\u00a0UNODA<\/a>, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (2007-2012). \u2013 The Editor<\/em>NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 As if by coincidence, almost simultaneously the world learned of\u00a0the Doomsday Clock<\/a>\u00a0moving closer to midnight and of the release of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR<\/a>) by the government of the United States.\u00a0[P 36]\u00a0BAHASA<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/a>JAPANESE TEXT VERSON<\/a>\u00a0PDF<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NORWEGIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0PORTUGUESE |\u00a0<\/a>SWEDISH<\/a>
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Why ‘Nuclear Weapons \u2013 An Absolute Evil’ Is A ‘Must-Read’<\/a>
By Anne Baring*\"Image:Anne Baring is a Jungian Analyst, author and co-author of the books listed on her\u00a0website<\/a>, including her latest one, The Dream of the Cosmos: a Quest for the Soul. She can be contacted at\u00a0anne@annebaring.com.\u00a0<\/a>Prof. Avery’s\u00a0‘<\/a>Nuclear Weapons: An Absolute Evil’ can be downloaded\u00a0here<\/a>. – The Editor.<\/em>LONDON \u2013 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on January 5 that they have moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight. A few days before this announcement was made a statement by General Sir Nick Carter appeared in\u00a0The Times\u00a0<\/em>in the United Kingdom: \u201cOur ability to pre-empt or respond to threats will be eroded if we don\u2019t keep up with our adversaries.\u201d (The Times<\/em>\u00a022\/1\/2018).
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Nuclear Posture Review ‘Recipe for a Disaster’, Warns Pugwash<\/a>
By J Nastranis\"Photo:NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 The Nobel Peace laureate ‘Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs’ has warned that the latest development of U.S. nuclear weapons policy “will serve only to increase the saliency and attractiveness of nuclear weapons, and will certainly not enhance international security.”
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Trump Awaits a ‘Magical Moment’ to Ban Nuclear Weapons<\/a>
By Shanta Roy\"Photo:UNITED NATIONS (IDN) \u2013 The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), released February 2, is a dangerous departure from the past, and appears to reflect a firm U.S. commitment to readily use the world’s deadliest weapons of mass destruction \u2013 even if the United States is only a target of “significant non-nuclear strategic attacks”, including cyberattacks.The new policy statement \u2013 reflecting a wide justification for a nuclear war \u2013 should also be viewed against the continued contradictory statements made by President Donald Trump on issues such as climate change, the Iranian nuclear deal, and most importantly, the use of nuclear weapons.\u00a0[P 35]\u00a0\u00a0ITALIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NORWEGIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0PERSIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SPANISH \u00a0|\u00a0<\/a>JAPANESE TEXT VERSON<\/a>\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/a>
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‘New START’ Milestone Could Help Halt Nuclear Arms Race<\/a>
By J C Suresh\"\"TORONTO | WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) \u2013\u00a0The Arms Control Association<\/a>\u00a0has called for extending the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) set to expire on February 5, 2021. The plea follows on the heels of an announcement each by\u00a0the United States<\/a>\u00a0and Russia that they have met their obligations under the Treaty to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear forces by February 5, the implementation deadline.
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Striving to Build a Broader Support for the Nuclear Ban TreatyBy Ramesh JauraBERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) \u2013 The second session of\u00a0the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference\u00a0in April and the\u00a0UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament\u00a0in May will draw the focus of the international community in the coming weeks as it moves toward paving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newsletter-beyond-nuclear-non-proliferation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}