Nuclear Disarmament

18 November 2019 - Representatives from across the Middle East are meeting at UN Headquarters this week in efforts to negotiate a legally binding treaty establishing a regional zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. Speaking on M…

Key Point: The old apartheid government caved to foreign pressure and didn't want the newly-elected government to gain control of the weapons. Why did South Africa decide to build nukes, how did it build them and why did it decide to give them up? The answer…

SEOUL North Korea on Monday responded to a tweet by President Trump that hinted at another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying it has no interest in giving Trump further meetings to brag about unless it gets something substantial in return. T…

SEOUL, South Korea North Korea on Monday responded to a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump that hinted at another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying it has no interest in giving Trump further meetings to brag about unless it gets something …

The late Toshiko Ishikawa Hilliker, a Hiroshima native who immigrated to the United States about 15 years after World War II, started to open up later in life about being a hibakusha, or atomic bombing survivor, who lived through the decimation of her home ci…

VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis has agendas both pastoral and personal for his trip to Asia, where hell appeal for global nuclear disarmament at the sites of the atomic bomb and minister to two tiny Catholic communities that have suffered gruesome periods of p…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The U.K.s Dec. 12 vote is being called the Brexit election for obvious reasons. So obvious that its easy to forget that the winner will also head a country with a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, a nuclear deterren…

The Queer Bookshelf is your fortnightly date with books about queer lives and loves from India and elsewhere *** It seems like the law of diminishing marginal utility does not apply to Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (2017). Every subsequent reading of th…

Everything from nuclear disarmament to civil rights and climate change is featured in the book, which uncovers the multitude of posters produced in response to social and environmental issues around the world. Its also a record of more temporary artwork made …

A grim smile crossed my face yesterday morning as Labours would-be Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry struggled on BBC Radio 4s Today programme to name a single international conflict in which her leader, Jeremy Corbyn, had backed Britains armed forces. Then…