Nuclear Disarmament

The United Nations says the 191 parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty have decided to postpone a conference to review its implementation because of the coronavirus pandemicBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated PressMarch 28, 2020, 5:01 AM3 min readUNITED NATIONS -- The 191 parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty have decided…

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The far right thrives on fear. It’s no surprise, then, that it would use the latest pandemic, which has generated widespread panic, to bolster its own agenda. All of the hallmarks of the far right are in play during the current crisis. It…

By Edith M. LedererThe Associated PressTues., March 24, 2020timer2 min. readTANZANIA, Tanzania - A major U.N. conference to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, considered the cornerstone of global efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, is “likely to be postponed” because of the coronavirus pandemic, a U.N. official said…

A U.N. official says a major U.N. conference to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is “likely to be postponed" because of the coronavirus pandemicBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated PressMarch 24, 2020, 9:57 PM3 min readUNITED NATIONS -- A major U.N. conference to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, considered the cornerstone…

Just like Kemal, the protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence, the Indian Left's best moment may have arrived and gone in 1996 without it even realising. Jyoti Basu, who could have been the country's first Marxist prime minister, had later famously called it a "historic blunder". Looking back,…

In an avalanche of reporting we are now assaulted with information about how the world is urgently attempting to batten down the hatches to avoid the possibility of deathly consequences from the broadly publicized outbreak of the coronavirus, causing the possibility of postponing or perhaps downsizing the upcoming five year…

With evolving technology and changing military doctrines, arms control and nuclear weapons control should be brought back to top attention, but it is “increasingly difficult to come to any agreement among the critical players” in the world, MEP Sven Mikser told EURACTIV in an interview. Sven Mikser (S&D) is a…

Top diplomats from the US, China, Britain, France and Russia on Tuesday expressed full support for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), marking half a century since the document came into force. "Today, 50 years later, we celebrate the immeasurable contributions this landmark treaty has made to…

He'd only been President for six weeks, and for his first state visit Ronald Reagan chose Canada.Six weeks after his 1981 swearing-in, Reagan makes a state visit met by protest and warmth in equal parts. 2:49A presidential visit was an event so special, the CBC sent Knowlton Nash to Parliament Hill to…

Statement by the Foreign Ministers of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States: On March 5, 1970, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) entered into force. Today, 50 years later, we celebrate the immeasurable contributions this landmark treaty has made to the security and…