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USA Claims Russia Flouting Global Ban on Nuclear Testing Too

By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 Amid mounting signs of a new arms race unleashing between the United States and Russia, which together account for 93 percent of the nuclear weapons around the world, a top Trump Administration official has obliquely accused Russia of violating the global ban on nuclear tests enshrined in the\u00a01996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty<\/a>\u00a0(CTBT).\u00a0[2019-05-29]\u00a0


Pakistan Tests Nuclear-Capable Ballistic Missile, Affirms Willingness for Dialogue with India

By Ayaz Gul\"Photo:This article\u00a0first appeared<\/a>\u00a0on Voice of America on May 23, 2019.<\/em>ISLAMABAD (IDN-INPS) \u2013 Pakistan says it has successfully conducted a \u201ctraining launch\u201d of a ballistic missile capable of carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads up to 1,500 kilometers.The move came amid Pakistan\u2019s heightened military tensions with neighboring rival India, and it is seen by observers as part of the efforts Islamabad is making to keep pace with New Delhi\u2019s massive investments in military hardware and advancements.\u00a0[2019-05-24]\u00a0


Uncertainty over U.S.-Russian Arms Control Talks

By Kingston Reif and Shervin Taheran\"Photo:While\u00a0Kingston Reif<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0Director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy<\/em>,\u00a0Shervin Taheran is Research Assistant at the\u00a0Arms Control Association<\/a>, which carried this report on May 24, 2019.<\/em>WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) \u2013 Following a May 14 meeting in Sochi, Russia, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told\u00a0reporters<\/a>\u00a0that the two countries \u201cagreed that \u2026 we will gather together teams that will begin to work not only on [the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty] New START and its potential extension but on a broader range of arms control issues that each of our two nations have.\u201d\u00a0[2019-05-24]\u00a0


Door to North Korea Remains Open Despite Missile Tests

By Alicia Sanders-Zakre and Kelsey Davenport\"PhotoWhile\u00a0Alicia Sanders-Zakre is research assistant, Kelsey Davenport, is director for nonproliferation policy at the\u00a0Arms Control Association<\/a>, which carried this report on May 21, 2019.<\/em>WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) \u2013 The next steps for U.S. diplomacy with North Korea remain unclear after Pyongyang tested several short-range ballistic missiles in early May.Despite the missile tests, South Korea and the United States urged a resumption of dialogue.\u00a0[2019-05-22]\u00a0


The Blame Game Obstructs the Path to NPT 50th Anniversary<\/a>

Viewpoint by Tariq Rauf
Tariq Rauf was Alternate Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA<\/a>) NPT Delegation 2002-2010, and has attended all NPT meetings as an official delegate since 1987 through 2019. Personal views are expressed here.\u00a0Click here<\/a>\u00a0for his previous article.<\/em>NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 In addition to discord and divisions over nuclear disarmament, between the five nuclear-weapon States (NWS) parties, along with their allies, and most of the non-nuclear-weapon States, a contentious issue concerns the establishment of a zone free of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction in the region of the Middle East (MEWMDFZ).\u00a0\u00a0HINDI<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0ITALIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0

Fiddling While the Nuclear Arms Control Architecture Collapses<\/a>

Viewpoint by Tariq Rauf
The writer was Alternate Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) NPT Delegation 2002-2010, and has attended all NPT meetings as an official delegate since 1987 through 2019. Personal views are expressed hereNEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 The third and final session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2020 Review Conference of the\u00a0Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons<\/a>\u00a0(NPT) fizzled out in disagreements over the pace and extent of nuclear disarmament at United Nations headquarters in New York.\u00a0HINDI<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0ITALIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>


Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference Could Hit a U.S. Roadblock<\/a>

By Shanta Roy
NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 The Trump Administration, which has been recklessly wielding a wrecking ball against multilateral treaties, will be put to a test next year when the 1970 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT<\/a>) will be up for review at the 2020 conference scheduled to take place in New York in April-May.\u00a0CHINESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0KOREAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0RUSSIAN<\/a>


Human Survival Lies in the Balance as the Charade of NPT Diplomacy is Wearing Thin

Viewpoint by Dr Joseph Gerson*
NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 Expectations for the outcome of this year\u2019s NPT Preparatory Committee were low at best. Not surprisingly, given the nuclear powers\u2019 reliance on their genocidal and omnicidal arsenals and pressures building for nuclear weapons proliferation, these expectations were not exceeded. As the\u00a0Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists<\/em>\u00a0has warned, humanity is now as close to nuclear apocalypse as it was at the height of the Cold War.\u00a0[2019-05-17]


Malaysian Diplomat Shows Courage on Way to Landmark NPT Review Conference
Viewpoint by Ray Acheson
This article first appeared as\u00a0Editorial<\/a>\u00a0in NPT News in Review, Vol. 16, No. 7 on May 10, 2019. The writer is the Director of\u00a0Reaching Critical Will<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the disarmament programme of the\u00a0Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)<\/a>.\u00a0She represents WILPF on several coalition steering groups, including the 2017 Nobel Laureate International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN<\/a>). Ray is a 2018 UN Women Metro-NY “Champion of Change”. \u2013 The Editor\u00a0<\/em>[2019-05-14]


Mayors for Peace Call for a Common Ground on the NPT

By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 In anticipation of the review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 2020 at the United Nations, the Mayors for Peace have in a\u00a0Joint Appeal<\/a>\u00a0called for finding a “common ground on the NPT”; because the global interest embodied in the NPT is in the national interests of all countries and all peoples worldwide.\u00a0[2019-05-13]


Experts Exhort Nuclear Deal Signatories to Help Iran

By Jamshed Baruah
NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 The\u00a0Arms Control Association (ACA)<\/a>, a Washington-based nonpartisan organization, has warned that Iran\u2019s “threat to violate” the landmark 2015 nuclear deal is “a very worrisome but predictable response” to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “dangerous decision” to withdraw from\u00a0the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action<\/a>\u00a0(JCPOA) one year ago.The Washington-based organization said: “The Trump administration\u2019s systematic campaign to deny Iran any benefits from the agreement has driven the leadership in Tehran to take these retaliatory steps.”\u00a0[2019-05-08]


Faith Communities Sound a Clarion Call for Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 Heed the voices of the world\u2019s hibakusha, survivors of atomic bombings, by unequivocally recommitting to achieving a world without nuclear weapons, by supporting the signing and ratification of the\u00a0Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)<\/a>.\u00a0[2019-05-04]\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>


Kazakhstan Calls for Rigorous Implementation of the NPT

By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>Kazakhstan, an active supporter of nuclear disarmament and strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime, has reiterated its firm support for the strict and complete compliance by all parties of the provisions of the\u00a0Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)<\/a>.\u00a0[2019-05-03]


UNODA Chief Focuses on Youth Engagement in Meeting with NGOs

By Caroline Mwanga
NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 The role of youth in promoting nuclear disarmament as envisaged in the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Agenda for Disarmament,\u00a0Securing Our Common Future,<\/a><\/em>\u00a0formed the focus of High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) Izumi Nakamitsu’s meeting with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the United Nations headquarters in New York on May 1. [2019-05-02]
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