{"id":2011,"date":"2018-07-31T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2022-02-11T19:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T10:30:56","slug":"beyond-nuclear-nonproliferation-newsletter%e3%80%80july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/newsletter-beyond-nuclear-non-proliferation\/beyond-nuclear-nonproliferation-newsletter%e3%80%80july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9\u30ec\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u6838\u4e0d\u62e1\u6563\u3092\u8d85\u3048\u3066\u300d2018\u5e747\u6708\u53f7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1370:study-finds-congressional-attention-on-nuclear-security-waning-as-nuclear-terrorism-threat-persists&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\" target=\"_blank\">Study Finds Congressional Attention on Nuclear Security Waning as Nuclear Terrorism Threat Persists<\/a><br>By J C Suresh<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/heu_awaiting_transportation.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Highly enriched uranium awaiting secure transportation by rail on September 26, 2010. Credit: National Nuclear Security Administration\">TORONTO (IDN) \u2013 A new report reveals an alarming diminution of U.S. congressional engagement and interest in critical efforts to prevent nuclear terrorism and proposed &#8220;action items&#8221; for lawmakers in enhancing nuclear security efforts and reducing global stockpiles of nuclear materials.Titled\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/armscontrol.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=94d82a9d1fc1a60f0138613f1&amp;id=8e3f107dca&amp;e=8757a7320c\">Empowering Congress on Nuclear Security: Blueprints for a New Generation<\/a><\/em>, the report from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psaonline.org\/\">Partnership for a Secure America<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/\">Arms Control Association<\/a>\u00a0also assesses current congressional staff attitudes about nuclear security and explores the role of Congress and case studies in congressional leadership on this issue.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1370:study-finds-congressional-attention-on-nuclear-security-waning-as-nuclear-terrorism-threat-persists&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\">Read More<\/a><br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1369:a-u-s-russia-summit-that-left-trump-in-the-hot-seat&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\" target=\"_blank\">A U.S.-Russia Summit That Left Trump In The Hot Seat<\/a><br>Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa*<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/trump_putin_news_conference-helsinki.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vladimir Putin (right) and Donald Trump (left) at a news conference after their summit meeting in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. Credit: en.kremlin.ru\">NEW YORK (IDN | INPS) \u2013 In a historic bilateral summit, the United States President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. The summit took place notwithstanding myriad objections, conjectures and apprehensions from many U.S. political leaders who oppose rapprochement with Russia over a plethora of issues: Crimea, East Ukraine, Syria, and Russia&#8217;s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1369:a-u-s-russia-summit-that-left-trump-in-the-hot-seat&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\">Read More<\/a><br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1376:nuclear-disarmament-is-crucial-for-global-security-it-shouldn-t-have-to-wait&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\" target=\"_blank\">Nuclear Disarmament Is Crucial For Global Security \u2013 It Shouldn&#8217;t Have To Wait<\/a> <br>Viewpoint by Dan Plesch, SOAS, University of London<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/reagan_gorbachev.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Back in 1986, the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik resulted in one of the greatest disarmament achievements of the last century. Credit: White House Photo Office \">LONDON (IDN-INPS) \u2013 A network of global institutions were created in 1945 to try and avert another global conflict. They have been gradually undermined over the last 20 years, and now we see them being trashed wholesale. The world leaders responsible are perhaps best described by General Jack D. Ripper in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s Dr Strangelove: \u201cThey have neither the time nor inclination for strategic thought.\u201d The latest round of top-level summits and meetings have duly been coloured by a very real fear of war \u2013 but it doesn\u2019t have to be this way.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1376:nuclear-disarmament-is-crucial-for-global-security-it-shouldn-t-have-to-wait&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\">Read More<\/a><br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1368:un-nuclear-watchdog-promotes-global-development-agenda&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\" target=\"_blank\">UN Nuclear Watchdog Promotes Global Development Agenda<\/a><br>By Santo D. Banerjee<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/iaea_krause_attending_unforum.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Martin Krause, Director of the Division of Programme Support and Coordination, IAEA Department of Technical Cooperation, attends the UN event on sustainable development in New York. Credit: D. Shropshire\/IAEA.\">NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 At the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/hlpf\">High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development<\/a>, concluding on July 18 in New York, the International Atomic Energy Agency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/\">IAEA<\/a>) has highlighted its contributions to promoting the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/sdgs\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>.Capacity building to &#8216;ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all&#8217; as envisaged by SDG 7 was the focus of a training course organized by the IAEA, the world&#8217;s central intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1368:un-nuclear-watchdog-promotes-global-development-agenda&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\">Read More<\/a><br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1375:the-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-one-year-on&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\" target=\"_blank\">The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On<\/a><br>Viewpoint by Tilman Ruff AM<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/tilman-ruff.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Australian Institute of International Affairs.\"><em>Associate Professor Tilman Ruff AM is co-founder and founding chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. This article has been published on the website of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalaffairs.org.au\/australianoutlook\/the-treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons-one-year-on\/\">Australian Institute of International Affairs<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/johnmenadue.com\/tilman-ruff-the-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-one-year-on-history-made-a-solid-start-here-to-stay-and-miles-to-go-before-we-sleep\/\">Pearls and Irritations<\/a>\u00a0on 12 July 2018.\u00a0<\/em>SYDNEY (IDN-INPS) \u2013 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons filled a gaping hole in international law by declaring the last weapons of mass destruction illegal. On the first anniversary of its adoption, how is the treaty faring?<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1375:the-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-one-year-on&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\">Read More<\/a><br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1367:iran-sandwiched-between-regime-change-threat-and-menacing-discontent-within&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\" target=\"_blank\">Iran Sandwiched Between &#8216;Regime Change&#8217; Threat and Menacing Discontent Within<\/a><br>By Mortezagholi Raissi<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/Protests_in_Tehran.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: 2017-18 protests in Tehran. Credit: Fars News Agency | Wikimedia Commons.\">BERLIN (IDN) \u2013 Plagued by domestic turmoil and the Trump Administration threatening regime change, not only the government in Iran but the entire theocratic regime too are faced with a far from envious situation, according to political observers.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1367:iran-sandwiched-between-regime-change-threat-and-menacing-discontent-within&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\">Read More<\/a><br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1365:trump-putin-summit-a-new-opportunity-to-ban-the-bomb&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\" target=\"_blank\">Trump-Putin Summit A New Opportunity To Ban The Bomb<\/a><br>Viewpoint by Alice Slater,\u00a0World BEYOND War<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/media\/com_acymailing\/resized\/b2c96d4cef7445c5402c3677f55754f7-alice_slater6588thumb560x560.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Alice Slater | Credit: channel.tv\" style=\"width: 750px;\"><em>The writer serves on the Coordinating Committee of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbeyondwar.org\/\">World Beyond War<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Following is the text of her article first published with the caption\u00a0Watch Out World: Peace May be Breaking Out!!\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/watch-out-world-peace-may-be-breaking-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/watch-out-world-peace-may-be-breaking-out\/<\/a><br><\/em>NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) \u2013 Less than a week or so before Donald Trump&#8217;s groundbreaking meeting planned with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the July 11-12 NATO summit, the new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icanw.org\/treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons\/\">Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons<\/a>\u00a0celebrated its first birthday on July 7 when 122 nations voted a year ago in the UN General Assembly to ban the bomb, just as we have banned biological and chemical weapons.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1365:trump-putin-summit-a-new-opportunity-to-ban-the-bomb&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\">Read More<\/a><br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1364:diplomacy-with-north-korea-crucial-to-denuclearization&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\" target=\"_blank\">Diplomacy With North Korea Crucial To Denuclearization<\/a><br>Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/kim-trump_shaking_hands.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, shake hands as they meet for the first time, June 12, 2018, at the Capella Hotel in Singapore. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)\"><em>Contrary to President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that there is \u201cno longer a nuclear threat from North Korea\u201d following his June 12 summit meeting with Kim Jong Un, the mission of achieving denuclearization and peace on the Korean peninsula is clearly not yet accomplished, writes Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/\">Arms Control Association<\/a>\u00a0in the<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armscontrol.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=94d82a9d1fc1a60f0138613f1&amp;id=c96130888e&amp;e=8757a7320c\"><em>July\/August issue of Arms Control Today<\/em><\/a>.<em>\u00a0The editorial appeared with the caption\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armscontrol.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=94d82a9d1fc1a60f0138613f1&amp;id=c96130888e&amp;e=8757a7320c\">&#8216;After the Singapore Summit<\/a>&#8216;.<\/em><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1364:diplomacy-with-north-korea-crucial-to-denuclearization&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\">Read More<\/a><br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1363:npt-proves-to-be-an-exercise-in-bad-faith-as-it-turns-50&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\" target=\"_blank\">NPT Proves To Be An Exercise In Bad Faith As It Turns 50<\/a><br>Viewpoint by Alice Slater<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/slaying_the_dragon.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon. The dragon is created from fragments of Soviet SS-20 and United States Pershing nuclear missiles. UN Photo\/Milton Grant\"><em>The writer is the New York representative for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wagingpeace.org\/\">Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<\/a>\u00a0and serves on the Coordinating Committee of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbeyondwar.org\/\">World Beyond War<\/a>.<\/em>NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 On July 1, the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/disarmament\/wmd\/nuclear\/npt\/\">NPT<\/a>) turned 50. In that agreement, five nuclear weapons states \u2013 the U.S., Russia, UK, France, and China \u2013 pledged to make &#8220;good faith efforts&#8221; to give up their nuclear weapons, while non-nuclear weapons states vowed not to acquire them. Every country in the world agreed to join the treaty except for India, Pakistan, and Israel which then went on to develop their own nuclear arsenals.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1363:npt-proves-to-be-an-exercise-in-bad-faith-as-it-turns-50&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\">Read More<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Published by<\/strong><br>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdgsforall.net\/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;subid=&amp;urlid=9177&amp;mailid=116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group<\/a>&nbsp;with IDN as the Flagship Agency<br>33 Lafferty Street, Toronto, ONT M9C5B5, CANADA<br>Europaplatz 2, 8th Floor, 10557 Berlin, GERMANY<br>Ichimura bldg. 4F, 3-2 Kanda Ogawa-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo JAPAN 101-0052<br><br><strong>as part of a Joint Media Project with the<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdgsforall.net\/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;subid=&amp;urlid=4991&amp;mailid=116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Soka Gakkai International<\/a><br>15-3 Samon-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0017, Japan<br>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdgsforall.net\/index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;subid=&amp;urlid=6072&amp;mailid=116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sdgsforall.net\/images\/banner\/newsletter_doppel.jpg\" alt=\"SUPPORT US\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Finds Congressional Attention on Nuclear Security Waning as Nuclear Terrorism Threat PersistsBy J C SureshTORONTO (IDN) \u2013 A new report reveals an alarming diminution of U.S. congressional engagement and interest in critical efforts to prevent nuclear terrorism and proposed &#8220;action items&#8221; for lawmakers in enhancing nuclear security efforts and reducing global stockpiles of nuclear [&hellip;]<\/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-2011","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\/2011","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=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2270"}],"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=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}