UNITED NATIONS | 30 January 2024 (IDN) — The annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit, scheduled to take place in Washington DC January 31-February 2, will focus on an ideology that has long triggered critical responses from anti-nuclear and peace activists.
The 2017 Nobel Peace laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a coalition of non-governmental organizations in over 100 countries, says “deterrence is an unproven gamble—a theory on which the future of humanity is being risked—based on the implicit threat to use nuclear weapons that has brought the world close to nuclear war on a number of occasions.”
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The New Cold War Masks the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
By Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar*
Source: Globetrotter.
BOSTON, USA | 24 January 2024 (IDN) — The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first time, our leaders had ordered and succeeded in creating a military system that could destroy us all—and where there was and remains no possible way to survive the inevitable conflict.
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Will New Regional Conflicts Accelerate Iran’s Plans to go Nuclear?
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS | 18 January 2024 (IDN) — The Israeli-Hamas war has ignited a new Middle Eastern regional conflict involving the United States and the Houthis in Yemen, a militant group described as proxies for Iran.
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The writer is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (ACA). The following article appears as the Focus of the January/February 2024 issue of Arms Control Today.
WASHINGTON, D.C. | 17 January 2024 (IDN) — As the new year begins, the existential risks posed by nuclear weapons continue to grow. A crucial factor in whether one or more of today’s nuclear challenges erupt into full-scale crisis, unravel the nonproliferation system, or worse will be the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
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UNITED NATIONS | 14 January 2024 (IDN) — North Korea, which has long suffered a shortage of food and medicine, has made relatively fast progress in cranking out ballistic missiles and emerging as an arms supplier to one of the world’s major nuclear powers: Russia.
A joint statement issued on January 10 by eight countries—France, Japan, Malta, Slovenia, South Korea, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States—accuses Russia of launching “several waves of devastating aerial attacks against Ukraine, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds more.”
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