Amidst Turmoil, Nuke-Free Mideast Conference Derailed
A long outstanding international conference on a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, scheduled to take place in Finland next month, has been postponed, giving rise to speculation on whether...
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Changing the Game to Achieve Nuclear Disarmament
Twenty-five years ago, on Dec. 8, presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. This historic agreement eliminated a modern class of...
View ArticlePreparing to Fight Off Doomsday
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has adopted a new strategy to involve citizens and politicians more actively to push for a global ban on nuclear weapons. The strategy was...
View ArticleWorld’s Nuclear Environment Remains Politically Toxic
The world’s nuclear environment has increasingly turned politically toxic, replete with threats, accusations and open defiance of Security Council resolutions. A long outstanding international...
View ArticleCivil Society Raises Pressure Over NPT
As parties to the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) begin their second preparatory conference in Geneva on Monday, representatives of civil society and several countries have...
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U.N. Accused of Playing Down Nuke Disarmament Conference
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is one of the most vociferous advocates of a world free of nuclear weapons. The lack of publicity stands in contrast to the strong public stand taken by Secretary-General...
View ArticleU.N. Can Help Devalue Nukes as Geopolitical Currency
When the 193-member U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) holds is first-ever high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament next September, there is little or no hope that any of the nuclear powers will make a firm...
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Q&A: Will the Iranian Nuclear Conflict Change With Rouhani?
The Jun. 14 election of Hassan Rouhani, nicknamed the “diplomatic sheik” during his service as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator from 2003-2005, to Iran’s presidency was met with hopeful celebrations...
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Low Expectations for High-Level Nuke Meet
The U.N. General Assembly Hall. Credit: UN Photo/Paulo FilgueirasBy Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 2013 (IPS) The upcoming event at the United Nations is being billed as something politically...
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Banning Nukes Still a Political Fantasy
Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh, says her country faces a triple nuclear threat literally at her doorstep, from India, China and Pakistan. Credit: UN Photo/JC McIlwaineBy Thalif...
View ArticleOP-ED: Saudi Anger Masks Concern About Loss of Influence
By Emile NakhlehWASHINGTON, Nov 12 2013 (IPS) Saudi Arabia’s public anger against the United States masks the kingdom’s growing concern about its diminishing influence in the Persian Gulf and the wider...
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Nuclear Weapons Leave Unspeakable Legacy
Yasuaki Yamashita at the Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. Credit: Emilio Godoy/IPSBy Emilio GodoyNUEVO VALLARTA, Mexico, Feb 14 2014 (IPS) For...
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Abolitionists Want to Set a Deadline for Nuclear Ban
Hirotsugu Terasaki, vice-president of Soka Gakkai International, speaking in Nuevo Vallarta on progress towards a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Credit: Courtesy of Kimiaki KawaiBy Emilio GodoyNUEVO...
View ArticleCORRECTION/OP-ED: Nuclear Disarmament, the State of Play
By Peter WeissNEW YORK, Feb 25 2014 (IPS) If psychosis is a loss of contact with reality, the current status of nuclear disarmament can best be described as psychotic. On the one hand, the nuclear...
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U.S.-Russia Bickering May Trigger Nuclear Fallout
Vitaly I. Churkin (left), Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine on Mar. 13, 2014. Credit: UN Photo/Evan...
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U.S.-Russia Sabre Rattling May Undermine Nuke Meeting
U.S. Permanent Representative Samantha Power (left) speaks with Russia's Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov (right), and Vitaly Churkin (back to camera), Russia's Permanent Representative, in...
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Interfaith Leaders Jointly Call to Abolish Nuclear Arms
Faith leaders gathered at the United States Peace Institute to solidify a common stance on nuclear disarmament. Credit: Courtesy of SGIBy Michelle TulloWASHINGTON, Apr 25 2014 (IPS) On the eve of next...
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U.S.-Dependent Pacific Island Defies Nuke Powers
A Patriot interceptor missile is launched from Omelek Island Oct. 25, 2012 during a U.S. Missile Defense Agency integrated flight test. Credit: U.S. NavyBy Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Apr 25 2014 (IPS)...
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Eyewitness to Nuke Explosion Challenges World Powers
Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands, triggering health and environmental problems which still plague the nation. Credit: Christopher...
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Nuclear Weapons as Bargaining Chips in Global Politics
Michael Kirby, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), briefs the press about the Commission's report which documents...
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