Nuclear Disarmament

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…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — 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 Tuesday.U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said that was the…

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Where are the Democrats? Why isn’t the present nuclear danger front and center in the Democrats’ presidential debates? I can think of a few reasons. First, Democrats always fear looking weak if they question the prevailing nuclear logic, let alone talk about a reduction of the nuclear stockpile. Second, most…

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,…

Vienna — This year marks the 50th anniversary of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and coincidentally the tenth quinquennial (five yearly) review conference is scheduled to be held at the United Nations in New York from 27 April to 22 May. With 191 States parties, the NPT is the cornerstone…

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…