{"id":2036,"date":"2019-01-31T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2024-06-14T21:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:54:22","slug":"beyond-nuclear-nonproliferation-newsletter%e3%80%80january-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/newsletter-beyond-nuclear-non-proliferation\/beyond-nuclear-nonproliferation-newsletter%e3%80%80january-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9\u30ec\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u6838\u4e0d\u62e1\u6563\u3092\u8d85\u3048\u3066\u300d2019\u5e741\u6708\u53f7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Trump\u2019s Missile Defence Buildup Plans Are Dangerous<br><br>Viewpoint by Kingston A. Reif<br><em>The writer is director for disarmament and threat reduction policy at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/\">Arms Control Association (ACA)<\/a>. He casts a close look at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2019\/Jan\/17\/2002080666\/-1\/-1\/1\/2019-MISSILE-DEFENSE-REVIEW.PDF\">&#8216;2019 Missile Defense Review&#8217;<\/a>. This article appeared as an Issue Brief on ACA website on January 17, 2019.<\/em><br>WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) \u2013 The Trump administration\u2019s long-awaited\u00a0<em>&#8216;Missile Defense Review&#8217;<\/em>, which was released on January 17, proposes a significant and costly expansion of the role and scope of U.S. missile defences that is likely to exacerbate Russian and Chinese concerns about the threat to their strategic nuclear deterrents, undermine strategic stability, and further complicate the prospects for additional nuclear arms reductions.\u00a0[2019-01-30]<br><br><br>Time Is Running Out For Sensible Decision-Making On Missile Defences<br><br>Viewpoint by Jonathan Power<br><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/snapshot_trump_mdr.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: 2019 Missile Defense Review. Credit: Defense News Weekly.\">LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) \u2013 The number of nuclear weapons possessed by the U.S. and Russia is a fraction of what it was during the height of the Cold War. Successive presidents on both sides, since the time of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, have feared their destructive power. The supposed value of nuclear arsenal, so called Mutually Assured Destruction, known by its capitals, MAD, is in fact valueless. They cannot be used, and nearly everyone accepts that.\u00a0[2019-01-29]<br><br><br>Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Sustainable Development: Buddhist Leader Urges Increased Role For Youth<br><br>By Ramesh Jaura<br>BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) \u2013 The need to accelerate progress toward the abolition of nuclear weapons, encourage youth engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\">SDGs<\/a>), and expand \u00a0the United Nations Academic Impact (<a href=\"https:\/\/academicimpact.un.org\/\">UNAI<\/a>) network of universities has been highlighted in a wide-ranging proposal by Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgi.org\/\">SGI<\/a>) Buddhist movement.\u00a0[2019-01-28]<br><br><br>New U.S. Report Focuses On Possible Future Iranian ICBM<br><br>By Arms Control Association<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/simorgh_payam_launch_fars_14.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: A Simorgh launch vehicle launched the Payam-e Amirkabir Satellite from the Imam Khomeini Space Center, Iran, on 15 January 2019. The satellite was not placed into orbit due to an issue with the rocket\u2019s third stage.\"><br>WASHINGTON, DC (IDN) \u2013 On January 17, the Trump administration unveiled its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armscontrol.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=94d82a9d1fc1a60f0138613f1&amp;id=3860e5dbc3&amp;e=8757a7320c\">Missile Defense Review<\/a>, which outlines the administration\u2019s strategy to counter missile threats, focusing on those posed by &#8220;rogue states&#8221; defined as Iran and North Korea.The review cites Iranian missile development as a primary challenge, repeatedly referencing the possibility of the development of an Iranian ICBM and the U.S. missile defense response.\u00a0[2019-01-25]<br><br><br>UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament<br><br>By Devinder Kumar<br>NEW DELHI (IDN) \u2013 India is the first member country of the United Nations to have launched a fellowship programme on disarmament and international security for foreign diplomats. \u201cThis is a demonstration of India\u2019s commitment to nuclear issues and disarmament,\u201d a senior official of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.With its focus on junior diplomats from a geographically diverse range of countries, the programme has a close parallel with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/disarmament\/institutions\/fellowship-programme\/\">UN Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament<\/a>, which was established in 1978 by the first special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament.\u00a0[2019-01-23\u00a0| P19]\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/documents\/Japanese\/Japanese_Saudi_Arabia's_Long-Term_Goal_of_Going_Nuclear%E2%80%93With_U.S._Backing_15.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php\/bahasa-hindi-malay-thai\/1485-un-lauds-india-for-training-foreign-diplomats-on-disarmament-bahasa\">BHASA<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php\/bahasa-hindi-malay-thai\/1484-un-lauds-india-for-training-foreign-diplomats-on-disarmament-hindi\">HINDI<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php\/japanese-chinese-korean\/1472-2444-un-lauds-india-for-training-foreign-diplomats-on-disarmament\">JAPANESE TEXT VERSION<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/document\/Japanese\/Japanese_UN_Lauds_India_For_Training_Foreign_Diplomats_On_Disarmament_19.pdf\">PDF<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/documents\/Japanese\/Japanese_Saudi_Arabia's_Long-Term_Goal_of_Going_Nuclear%E2%80%93With_U.S._Backing_15.pdf\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php\/bahasa-hindi-malay-thai\/1486-un-lauds-india-for-training-foreign-diplomats-on-disarmament-malay\">MALAY<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php\/bahasa-hindi-malay-thai\/1487-un-lauds-india-for-training-foreign-diplomats-on-disarmament-thai\">THAI<\/a><br><br><br>Report Advising Sweden Not To Join Nuclear Ban Treaty Disappoints ICAN<br><br>By Jamshed Baruah<br>GENEVA (IDN-INPS) \u2013 International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icanw.org\/\">ICAN<\/a>), which was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, is &#8220;disappointed&#8221; that after months of delay a report for the Swedish Parliament on possible Swedish \u201caccession\u201d to the UN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/disarmament\/wmd\/nuclear\/tpnw\/\">Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)<\/a>, has concluded that Sweden should not join the Treaty \u201cin its present form\u201d. The 234-page report, compiled by former diplomat Lars-Erik Lundin, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regeringen.se\/48f047\/contentassets\/55e89d0a4d8c4768a0cabf4c3314aab3\/rapport_l-e_lundin_webb.pdf\">published<\/a>\u00a0on January 18, 2019.\u00a0[2019-01-19]<br><br><br>The Guterres Disarmament Agenda: Continuity And Change<br><br>Viewpoint by Randy Rydell<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/image\/SG_Disarmament_Agenda.jpg\" alt=\"Image source: UNODA\"><br><em>The writer, executive adviser to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayorsforpeace.org\/english\/\">Mayors for Peace<\/a>, was a senior political affairs officer in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/disarmament\/\">UN Office for Disarmament Affairs<\/a>\u00a0from 1998 to 2014. The following are excerpts from the article posted on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/\">Arms Control Association<\/a>&#8216;s website on January 8, 2019. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Mayors for Peace.<\/em>\u00a0[2019-01-15]<br><br><br>Pyongyang And Washington Do Not Speak The Same Language<br><br>Viewpoint by Kelsey Davenport<br><em>The writer is the Director for Nonproliferation Policy at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/\">Arms Control Association<\/a>, where she provides research and analysis on the nuclear and missile programs in Iran, North Korea, India, and Pakistan and on nuclear security issues. This article was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/act\/2019-01\/news\/stakes-grow-possible-trump-kim-summit\">posted<\/a>\u00a0on January 8 on the Association&#8217;s website as part of the current issue of &#8216;Arms Control Today&#8217;.<\/em>WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) \u2013 North Korea reiterated that denuclearization of the Korean peninsula must include removal of U.S. nuclear weapons in the region, a statement that underscores that diplomatic advances in 2019 will require addressing simultaneously North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons program and its security concerns.\u00a0[2019-01-13]<br><br><br>Time To Leave The Nuclear Age, Create A Green Planet At Peace<br><br>Viewpoint by Medea Benjamin and Alice Slater<br><em>While Medea Benjamin is codirect or of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codepink.org\/\"><em>CODEPINK for Peace<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and author of several books, including\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orbooks.com\/catalog\/inside-iran-medea-benjamin\/\"><em>Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic<\/em><\/a><em>, Alice Slater serves on the Coordinating Committee of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/\"><em>World Beyond War\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>and is the UN Representative of the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wagingpeace.org\/\"><em>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><br>NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 A deafening chorus of negative grumbling from the left, right, and center of the U.S. political spectrum in response to Trump\u2019s decision to remove U.S. troops from Syria and halve their numbers in Afghanistan appears to have slowed down his attempt to bring our forces home.\u00a0[2019-01-09 | P18]\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php\/japanese-chinese-korean\/1496-time-to-leave-the-nuclear-age-create-a-green-planet-at-peace-chinese\">CHINESE<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php\/japanese-chinese-korean\/1456-1443-time-to-leave-the-nuclear-age-create-a-green-planet-at-peace\">JAPANESE TEXT VERSION<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/documents\/Japanese\/Japanese_Time_To_Leave_The_Nuclear_Age_Create_A_Green_Planet_At_Peace_18.pdf\">PDF<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php\/japanese-chinese-korean\/1498-time-to-leave-the-nuclear-age-create-a-green-planet-at-peace-korean\">KOREAN<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/documents\/Japanese\/Japanese_Saudi_Arabia's_Long-Term_Goal_of_Going_Nuclear%E2%80%93With_U.S._Backing_15.pdf\"><\/a><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuclearabolition.info\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1445:the-inf-treaty-crisis-is-a-global-security-problem&amp;catid=2:nuclear-abolition-news-and-analyses&amp;Itemid=103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The INF Treaty Crisis Is A Global Security Problem<\/a><br><br>Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball<br><em>The author is Executive Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/\">Arms Control Association<\/a>. He wrote this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/act\/2019-01\/focus\/preventing-new-euro-missile-race\">editorial<\/a>\u00a0for the January-February issue of Arms Control Today.<\/em><br>WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) \u2013 Next month, it is very likely the Trump administration will take the next step toward fulfilling the president\u2019s threat to \u201cterminate\u201d one of the most far-reaching and most successful nuclear arms reduction agreements: the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which led to the verifiable elimination of 2,692 Soviet and U.S. missiles based in Europe. The treaty helped bring an end to the Cold War and paved the way for agreements to slash bloated strategic nuclear arsenals and to withdraw thousands of tactical nuclear weapons from forward-deployed areas.\u00a0[2019-01-10]<br><\/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<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<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>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s Missile Defence Buildup Plans Are Dangerous Viewpoint by Kingston A. 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