In the 1990s, tens of thousands of people surrounded the SemiPalatinsk nuclear test site. Impacted by Soviet testing for decades, concerned community members and their allies demanded the site be …
International Day against nuclear testing- honouring the power of the people Read More »
While it’s unlikely the UN Security Council will take up the threat to global peace and security recently on display by Donald Trump’s suggestions to nuke hurricanes, on 22 August …
The UN Security Council is meeting today (22 August), at the request of China and Russia to discuss the recent US test of an intermediate range missile. After formally withdrawing …
UN Security Council to talk about US missile testing Read More »
An atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.The last to be used in war, but by no means the last innocents killed by nuclear weapons. The risks around nuclear weapons are …
Today is it, the time is up, and the INF treaty has collapsed. The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty that began the wind-down of the Cold War. For the …
Anyone who grew up in the 1980s will remember how hard it was for Doc to get the plutonium he needed to power his time travelling DeLorean. Today, the US …
The Dutch government published its response to a report by the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) (31 January 2019), called “Nuclear weapons in a new geopolitical reality.” In the …
Dutch government sets a (qualified) timeline to end the nuclear task Read More »
Today, 26 June, the Dutch Foreign Affairs committee will hear from a panel of experts on possibilities for Dutch activity to achieve nuclear disarmament. PAX, along with ICAN, the Dutch …
Dutch parliament to hear from disarmament experts Read More »
The 2019 NPT Prepcom ended with a set of representative recommendations to the review- but they were not adopted by consensus. Instead, some states tried to push back against previously …
This week, the PAX no nukes team is in New York for the NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting. There is a degree of tension, as arms control agreements outside these UN …
NPT- creating the environment for delayed delivery Read More »
