Nuclear Abolition News and Analysis

Unified Approach Needed For Nuclear Disarmament

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By Jayantha Dhanapala *

KANDY, SRI LANKA, Jan (IPS) The only viable normative approach regarding nuclear weapons is their total and universal elimination under strict verification. This cannot be achieved by incremental steps but only by the negotiation of a Nuclear Weapons Convention as advocated by the UN Secretary-General. [ARABIC | FRENCH | ITALIAN | JAPANESE | TURKISH]

Iran Uses Fear of Covert Nuclear Sites to Deter Attack

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Analysis by Gareth Porter*

WASHINGTON (IPS) - The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iran had "quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex" in a vast network of tunnels and bunkers buried in mountainsides. [JAPANESE | TURKISH]

From Simple Anti-War Agenda to Expansive Peace Initiatives

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Mutsuko Murakami interviews IKURO ANZAI, honorary director of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace

TOKYO (IPS) - Of approximately 170 peace museums that exist around the world, a third are found in Japan. [JAPANESE | SWAHILI | PORTUGUESE | TURKISH]

Commission Spreads Tainted Joy

ICNND Photo: [Left to Right] Commission co-chair Gareth Evans, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan, Commission co-chair Ms Yoriko Kawaguchi at the launch of the report in Tokyo. Nuclear Abolition News | IDN

By Taro Ichikawa
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis

TOKYO (IDN) - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd had reason to rejoice when they received and launched the report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), calling for a cut of more than 90 percent in the world’s nuclear arsenals by 2025. [JAPANESE]

Nuclear Power ‘Yes’ – Nuclear Proliferation ‘No’

IAEA Durector General Yukiya Amano, Credit: P. Pavlicek/IAEA Nuclear Abolition News | IDN

By Clive Banerjee
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis

VIENNA (IDN) - Nuclear power is a dirty word for those who champion the cause of clean energy. It needs some guts, therefore, to take up the cudgels on behalf of the atom as an important source of non-fossil energy. [JAPANESE]

DPRK and U.S. Recommit to 2005 Joint Statement

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By Eli Clifton

WASHINGTON (IPS) - United States Envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth announced Thursday that his three-day visit to Pyongyang has produced no commitment from the North Koreans to return to multilateral talks aimed at ending Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. However, both sides recommitted to a 2005 joint statement in which the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) committed to dismantle its nuclear programme in exchange for economic aid and other incentives. [JAPANESE]

‘Nuclear Energy Is Not a Solution to Climate Change’

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Neena Bhandari interviews DR SUE WAREHAM, proponent of a nuclear-free world

MELBOURNE (IPS) - As the threat of nuclear weapons looms large over the very existence of life on earth, Dr Sue Wareham, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons’ (ICAN) Australian board member, is calling for a speedy abolition of these weapons and the rejection of nuclear power as a solution to climate change. [ARABIC | ITALIAN | JAPANESE | SWAHILI | TURKISH]

Inter-religious Forum Calls for Nuclear Abolition

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By Neena Bhandari

MELBOURNE (IPS) - For the global religious community, the use of nuclear arms is an overwhelmingly important ethical issue for the human family. Thus, nothing less than the immediate abolition of such weapons is needed from the highest levels, said speakers at the Parliament of the World’s Religions currently underway in this Australian city. [GERMAN | JAPANESE]

U.S.-JAPAN ACCORD: Seeking a Nuke Free World

President Barack Obama and the U.S delegation toast with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and the Japanese delegation ,Official White House Photo by Pete Souza Nuclear Abolition News | IDN

By Ernest Corea
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis

WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - Japan, the only country to be the target of atom bombs, and the U.S., the only country to drop them, firmly committed themselves to working towards a nuclear weapons free world, when President Barack Obama visited Japan during his first presidential tour of Asia.

On Nuke Disarmament, It's Still "You First"

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Analysis by Haider Rizvi

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Is the ongoing controversy over Iran's nuclear programme helping to advance the United Nations' agenda on nuclear disarmament? To a number of diplomats and experts who have participated in past U.N. discussions on the spread of nuclear weapons, the answer is, yes – although not necessarily for the expected reasons.

DISARMAMENT: Toward A Nuke-Free Germany?

Liberal FDP chief Guido Westerwelle, Foreign Minister designate, Credit: Wikimedia Commons Nuclear Abolition News | IDN

By Ramesh Jaura
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis

BERLIN (IDN) - The new conservative-liberal coalition government wants the United States to withdraw all nuclear weapons still deployed in Germany despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, end of the cold war and re-unification twenty years ago.

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