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UN Rejects Resolution Calling for Russian-U.S. Compliance with Nuclear Treaty<\/a>
By Ramesh Jaura\"Photo:NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 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\u00a0Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty<\/a>.\u00a0And 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\u2019s Deceiving Whom? Open Source North Korea Under The Microscope<\/a>
by Joshua H. Pollack\"Photo:The writer is a senior research associate at the\u00a0Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey<\/a>\u00a0and editor of the\u00a0Nonproliferation Review<\/a>. This article\u00a0first appeared<\/a>\u00a0on NKNews.Org on December 11, 2018.<\/em>NEW YORK | MONTEREY (IDN-INPS) \u2013 Along with the features of daily life that few of us could have anticipated a generation ago \u2013 smartphones, rent-a-scooters, Greek yogurt in every grocery store \u2013 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<\/a>
By Ramesh Jaura\"Photo:NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 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\u2019s pursuit of technological advancement, a new study has found.
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Parliamentarians for Nuclear Disarmament Emphasize Need to Combat Climate Change<\/a>
By Aleksandra Gadzinski\"Collage:KATOWICE (IDN) \u2013 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\u00a0Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists<\/a>\u00a0moved 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<\/a>) at an event on December 9.\u00a0\u00a0[P 17]\u00a0ITALIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSION<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>PDF<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SWEDISH<\/a>
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Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change Threaten Human Survival<\/a>
John Avery interviews David Krieger\"PhotoCOPENHAGEN | SANTA BARBARA, CA (IDN) \u2013 One of the five \u201cM\u2019s\u201d 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),”\u00a0David Krieger<\/a>\u00a0tells\u00a0John Scales Avery<\/a>\u00a0in an exceptional interview.\u00a0[P 16]\u00a0<\/a>BAHASA<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSION<\/a>\u00a0PDF<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0THAI<\/a>
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It is High Time for the U.S. and Russia to Get Off the Treadmill to Catastrophe<\/a>
Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball\"Photo:The author is Executive Director of the\u00a0Arms Control Association<\/a>. He wrote this\u00a0editorial<\/a>\u00a0for the December issues of Arms Control Today.<\/em>WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) \u2013 Earlier this year, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres warned that \u201c[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.\u201dIndeed, 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<\/a>
By Daryl G. Kimball and Kingston A. Reif\"Photo:The following is the text of the analysis in Issue Brief (Volume 10, Issue 10, December 4, 2018) by the\u00a0Arms Control Association (ACA).<\/a>\u00a0Daryl G. Kimball, is the executive director and Kingston A. Reif the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy of ACA. \u2013 The Editor<\/em>WASHINGTON; DC (IDN-INPS) \u2013 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u00a0declared<\/a>\u00a0[on December 4] Russia in material breach of the landmark 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF<\/a>) 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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UN Rejects Resolution Calling for Russian-U.S. Compliance with Nuclear TreatyBy Ramesh JauraNEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 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\u00a0Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.\u00a0And this within months of President Donald Trump’s October announcement […]<\/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-2032","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\/2032","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=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2265"}],"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=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}