{"id":2100,"date":"2020-07-31T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2024-06-14T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T06:14:00","slug":"beyond-nuclear-nonproliferation-newsletter%e3%80%80june-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/newsletter-beyond-nuclear-non-proliferation\/beyond-nuclear-nonproliferation-newsletter%e3%80%80june-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9\u30ec\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u6838\u4e0d\u62e1\u6563\u3092\u8d85\u3048\u3066\u300d2020\u5e746\u6708\u30017\u6708\u53f7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A Warrior for Nuclear Peace Dies But His Message Reverberates<\/a>

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*\"\"
Photo: Bruce Blair. Credit: Matt Stanley, mattstanleyphoto.com<\/em>
LUND, Sweden (IDN) \u2013 Bruce Blair, one of the great unsung heroes of the nuclear bomb age, died on July 19 at the age of 72. In his twenties he had been an intercontinental nuclear rocket launch officer, spending his days or nights deep down in a below-ground bunker waiting for the signal to fire and obliterate the cities and their people, the workers of all classes, pensioners and the totally innocent children of western Russia.\u00a0ARABIC<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0THAI<\/a>


Trump and Senator Cotton Embrace Enhanced Testing & Face Kilotons of Surprises<\/a>

Viewpoint by Robert Kelley
VIENNA (IDN) \u2013 There are growing rumours that the United States is considering carrying out a nuclear test in the near future.\u00a0Legislation introduced in the United States Senate suggests that this may not be an idle threat<\/a>. The language in the recent amendment reads: \u201ccarry out projects related to reducing the time required to execute a nuclear test if necessary,\u201d This threat indicates a complete lack of understanding of the political and technical difficulties such a move would introduce.\u00a0HINDI<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>

Young Leaders Across Northeast Asia Tackle Challenging Security Questions<\/a>

By UNODA
\"\"Photo: Northeast Asian youth leaders from the \u201cPerspectives for Dialogues in Northeast Asia\u201d, organized in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in June 2019. Credit: UNODA<\/em>NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 The nine-member youth Steering Committee for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation in Northeast Asia engaged with United Nations staff earlier in July on a range of pressing international security challenges.Their webinar discussions were part of a\u00a0wider learning series<\/a>\u00a0organized by the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD) to help the young leaders prepare for an upcoming meeting in the Republic of Korea on disarmament and non-proliferation topics.\u00a0[2020\u201307-10]


Okinawa Governor Refuses to Host Prohibited U.S. Nuclear Missiles<\/a>

By Jaya Ramachandran
GENEVA (IDN) \u2013 Governor Denny Tamaki of Okinawa district has rejected the U.S. plans to base on the island missiles capable of threatening China \u2013 apparently as part of President Donald Trump’s move to challenge Beijing and upgrade the importance of Taiwan, 500 kilometres away from the island. If a plan for Okinawa to host such missiles were to develop, Tamaki said: “I can easily imagine fierce opposition from Okinawa residents.” JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0RUSSIAN<\/a>


Combating the Threat of Nuclear Weapons Needs ‘Responsible’ Media<\/a>
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Viewpoint by Dr J. EnkhsaikhanThe writer is\u00a0former Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, and Chairman of Blue Banner NGO.\u00a0<\/em>ULAANBAATAR (IDN) \u2013 The first half of 2020 has demonstrated once again that the world has indeed become closely interconnected and that cooperation of states and other stakeholders is imperative to deal with the current three existential threats that know no borders: the existence of weapons of mass destruction, the climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NORWEGIAN<\/a>


Time to Act on Dr King\u2019s Call to Tackle Evils of Racism, Economic Exploitation, and War<\/a>
Viewpoint by Alice Slater
NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013The Stockholm\u00a0International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)<\/a>\u00a0just issued its\u00a02020 Yearbook<\/a>, reporting on developments in armaments, disarmament, and international security. In light of the drumbeat of frightening news about growing hostility between the dominant nuclear-armed states vying for power, SIPRI describes a bleak outlook for arms control.\u00a0\u00a0HINDI<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0ITALIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SPANISH<\/a>
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