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California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament<\/a>
By J C Suresh\"Photo:TORONTO (IDN) \u2013 The State Senate of California, the most populous state in the United States, has adopted Assembly Joint Resolution 33 (AJR 33), which calls upon the federal government to embrace the\u00a0Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons<\/a>, make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece of national security policy, and spearhead a global effort to prevent nuclear war.
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U.S. Goes for ‘Space Force All the Way’<\/a>Viewpoint by Alice Slater*,\u00a0The Hill<\/a>
\"PhotoNEW YORK (IDN-INPS) \u2013 [\u2026] Vice-President\u00a0Mike Pence<\/a>\u00a0announced the Trump administration\u2019s plan for a new military command, the U.S. Space Force, emphasizing President Donald Trump\u2019s urging that \u201cIt is not enough to merely have an American presence in space: we must have American dominance in space.\u201d Pence\u2019s announcement was greeted by Trump, tweeting in response, \u201cSpace Force all the way!\u201d
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Little Progress in Nuclear Disarmament Since Helsinki Summit<\/a>
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*\"PhotoLUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) \u2013 Everything gets said, nothing gets done. When President Donald Trump met President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, we were promised all sorts of goodies \u2013 progress in reconciliation in Ukraine and Syria, and not least nuclear disarmament. If there is progress behind the scenes it’s not noticeable to the naked eye.
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73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage<\/a>
By Ramesh Jaura\"Photo:BERLIN (IDN) \u2013 Nobel Peace Prize laureate\u00a0Adolfo P\u00e9rez Esquivel<\/a>\u00a0and Buddhist philosopher\u00a0Daisaku Ikeda<\/a>\u00a0recall a quote from Martin Luther King Jr \u2013 “We are always on the threshold of a new dawn” \u2013 and aver that the adoption of the\u00a0UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons<\/a>\u00a0in July 2017 is such a ‘threshold’.In a joint appeal\u00a0‘To the Youth of the World’<\/a><\/em>, released to the media and wider public in Rome, and handed over to Pope Francis, they note that the Treaty “is an international legal instrument that establishes the absolute illegality” of nuclear weapons.\u00a0[P 08]\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSION<\/a>\u00a0PDF<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/a>NORWEGIAN<\/a>
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Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development<\/a>
Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu\"IzumiThe author is Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. This article first appeared in\u00a0UN Chronicle<\/a>,\u00a0Vol. LV No. 2 2018 | August 2018.<\/em>NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) \u2013 The idea that disarmament and arms control are connected to development is not new. Article 26 of the Charter of the United Nations recognizes disarmament as a precondition for durable peace, security and development by calling for the maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion of the world\u2019s economic and human resources for arms.
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No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, No More Hibakusha<\/a>
Viewpoint by Ant\u00f3nio Guterres\"Photo:The survivors of the atomic bombings, known in Japanese as the hibakusha, have become global “leaders for peace and disarmament”, United Nations Secretary-General\u00a0Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/em>\u00a0said at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony in Japan on 9 August 2018, commemorating the 73rd anniversary of that devastating day. Following are extensive extracts from Guterres’ remarks. \u2013 The Editor\u00a0\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a><\/em>
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Trump and Putin Can Put the Brakes on a New, Potentially More Dangerous, Arms Race<\/a>
Viewpoint by Thomas M. Countryman, Kingston A. Reif and Daryl G. Kimball\"Photo:The following analysis is the Arms Control Association’s latest\u00a0Issue Brief<\/a>\u00a0with the caption<\/em>\u00a0Can Trump and Putin Head Off a Nuclear Arms Race?<\/a><\/em>\u00a0authored by Thomas M. Countryman, former Acting Under\u00a0Secretary Of State for Arms\u00a0Control and International Security and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association, Kingston A. Reif, Director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy, and Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director. It is being reproduced by arrangement with the Association. \u2013 The Editor.<\/em>
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Rising Nuclear Tensions Call For Elimination Of Atomic Weapons<\/a>
Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu\"Photo:Ms Izumi Nakamitsu is High Representative, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). Following is the text of the message she delivered to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Service on 6 August 2018 on behalf of the UN Secretary-General. \u2013 The Editor<\/em>HIROSHIMA (IDN-INPS) \u2013 It is a privilege to pay tribute to the citizens of Hiroshima and all those who perished in the blinding flash of nuclear destruction, and in the weeks, months and years that followed, and to stand in solidarity with the Hibakusha and their families.\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>
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California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear DisarmamentBy J C SureshTORONTO (IDN) \u2013 The State Senate of California, the most populous state in the United States, has adopted Assembly Joint Resolution 33 (AJR 33), which calls upon the federal government to embrace the\u00a0Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece […]<\/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-2016","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\/2016","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=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2269"}],"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=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}