ULAANBAATAR (IDN) \u2014 Post-cold war peace dividend has not realized. Though the number of nuclear weapons of the two largest nuclear weapon holders\u2014Russia and the United States\u2014was reduced but then the reduction process came to a complete halt. The number of states possessing nuclear weapons has almost doubled against the background of further modernization of such weapons, lowering the threshold of their possible use and the increase in nuclear weapon spending. The non-proliferation regime is gradually weakening.\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SPANISH<\/a><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*<\/p>\n\n\n\n LUND, Sweden (IDN) \u2014 Last week on Tuesday (April 20), US Strategic Command, the part of the military responsible for nuclear weaponry and its use, posted an official Tweet that read, \u201cWe must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as their least bad option\u201d.\u00a0[2021-04-27] <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jamshed Baruah<\/p>\n\n\n\n GENEVA (IDN) \u2014 The Nobel laureate International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN<\/a>), a coalition of non-governmental organizations promoting adherence to and implementation of the United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty, has been pleading for divestment in nuclear weapons. “The imminent entry-into-force of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW<\/a>) allows for a unique opportunity to hit the nuclear weapons producers where it hurts\u2014their wallets,” an ICAN campaign says.\u00a0GERMAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0HINDI<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Viewpoint by Patricia Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n This article outlines <\/em>Chatham House\u2019s new approach to mapping the complexity of nuclear arms control<\/em>. It was originally published on Chatham House’s ‘THE WORLD TODAY’<\/a> on April 2, 2021, and is being reproduced for the information of our readers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n LONDON (THE WORLD TODAY) \u2014 Every five years since 1970 diplomats and arms control experts have gathered to review progress \u2013 or lack of it \u2013 in the disarmament process enshrined in the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The latest review conference, which was scheduled for May 2020, was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. [2021-04-03] Published by<\/strong> Time to Think Beyond Current NWFZs Viewpoint by Dr Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan The writer is Chairman of Blue Banner NGO, Former Mongolian Permanent Representative to the United Nations. ULAANBAATAR (IDN) \u2014 Post-cold war peace dividend has not realized. Though the number of nuclear weapons of the two largest nuclear weapon holders\u2014Russia and the United States\u2014was reduced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2177","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\/2177","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=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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