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NPT Meet Draws Thousands of Anti-Nukes Activists

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By Anna Shen

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Japanese women in kimonos carrying signs urging "No More Hiroshima", an 80-year-old grandmother, and 18 mayors from around the world were just some of the almost 15,000 people who marched in New York City Sunday to rally for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

The hot, humid weather did not deter the protesters, who walked from Times Square, passing the United Nations on their way to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza for a peace festival with music and heated discussion over the month-long review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which begins Monday at the U.N. [P | JAPANESE PDF TEXT VERSION ]

Practical Moves to Reset the NPT Bargain

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By Jayantha Dhanapala*
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis

WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – The quinquennial ritual of preparing for the Review Conference of the states parties of the Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will reach its climax (or anticlimax) from May 3-27 in New York. Action plans for the three main pillars of the NPT – nonproliferation, disarmament and peaceful uses of nuclear energy – are being composed in the hope of achieving a consensus.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime Has Triple Standards

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Thalif Deen interviews JOHN BURROUGHS of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The abolition of nuclear weapons - and a halt to the spread of the deadly armaments - will be a major talking point at the month-long Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), scheduled to take place at the United Nations beginning next week. [P | ARABIC | JAPANESE PDF TEXT VERSION ]

Egypt Escalates 'War on Nuclear Weapons'

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By Fareed Mahdy
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis

ISTANBUL (IDN) – Strongly backed by Arab countries and Turkey, Egypt has escalated its intensive diplomatic offensive for freeing the Middle East of all kinds of weapons of mass destruction, starting with nuclear arms. [P | ARABIC | GERMAN | JAPANESE PDF - TEXT VERSION | TURKISH PDF - TEXT VERSION]

One Billion Reasons to Disarm the Planet

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By Badriya Khan*
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis

BARCELONA (IDN) – The world is over-armed; the world is over-hungry. This is not a new slogan – this is a proven fact showing that the world spends well over 1 trillion dollars a year on weapons, while more than one billion people are hungry. [JAPANESE PDF TEXT VERSION]

U.S. Going Soft on Israeli, Indian & Pak Nukes?

President Barack Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan at Blair House in Washington, Apr. 11., Credit:White House Photo/Pete Souza Nuclear Abolition News | IPS

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - When a much-ballyhooed two-day nuclear security summit ended in Washington early this week, there were several lingering questions that remained unanswered - even by the host of the high-powered 47-nation gathering, U.S President Barack Obama. |P | ARABIC | DUTCH | JAPANESE PDF TEXT VERSION | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH]

Security Challenges Ahead after the Nuke Summit

Challenges Ahead for Security after the Nuke Summit

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By Ernest Corea
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis

WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - The Nuclear Security Summit convened by President Barack Obama attracted 47 high-level participants – over 30 of them heads of state or government – who collectively agreed on several small but important steps on the path towards global safety from a “rogue” nuclear attack. This could be mounted by “non-state” sources or by a state that does not observe the rules. |P | JAPANESE PDF - TEXT VERSION ]

Redefine Japan-U.S. Alliance for Denuclearization

Redefine Japan-U.S. Alliance for Global Denuclearization

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By Masayoshi Hamada*
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis

TOKYO (IDN) – Japan is serving in the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council in April, ahead of the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons scheduled for May 2010.

Amidst growing momentum toward a world free of nuclear weapons I believe Japan has the moral responsibility to spread word about the harrowing effect of nuclear weapons as the only sufferer of nuclear attacks, and exercise leadership in finding a fundamental solution to the issue of North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, which has undermined the global trend toward nuclear disarmament.

Nukes Lobbying Brings Obama's Foreign Policy into Focus

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Analysis by Eli Clifton

WASHINGTON (IPS) - The past two weeks have been marked by major foreign policy accomplishments for U.S. President Barack Obama, including the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the signing of a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, and what appear to be improvements in the increasingly tense Washington-Beijing relationship.

Israel Trapped in Nuclear Isolation

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By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler

JERUSALEM (IPS) - As the world grapples with controlling the spread of nuclear weapons, it's a time of complex choices in a Middle East edging between possible confrontation with Iran and possible movement towards Israeli-Palestinian peace.

UN Chief Doubts Mideast Nuke-Free Zone

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By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Against the backdrop of a major summit meeting of world leaders on nuclear non-proliferation hosted by the United States, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed strong doubts about the longstanding proposal to create a nuclear-free zone in the militarily-volatile Middle East. [ARABIC]

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