Perilous Profiteering
The 2021 report “Perilous Profiteering: The companies building nuclear arsenals and their financial backers” is a joint publication of ICAN and it’s partner PAX. The report details how 338 financial …
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Recommendations to the 2022 NPT Review Conference: gender
In the run up to the tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which is scheduled to take place in early …
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76th anniversary Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6th, 1945. The images of the US atomic bombs that swept away the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still vivid in our minds. Just like the human …
Nuclear Disarmament, an internship reflection
As our internships with PAX’ nuclear disarmament team in the humanitarian disarmament division will soon come to an end, we (Nora and Roelien) are happy to take this opportunity to …
Nuclear weapons motions defeated in Parliament
During a parliamentary debate on NATO on 15 June, Jasper van Dijk (SP) introduced three motions related to nuclear weapons. While supported by many parties, the numbers weren’t there and …
How can nuclear risk be reduced?
Last Monday, the Vienna Centre on Disarmament and Non-proliferation (VCDNP) hosted its first webinar in a series leading up to the postponed 2020 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference. Diplomats and …
What was spent on nuclear weapons in 2020?
The ICAN report “Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending” reveals just how much was spent by the nine nuclear armed governments in 2020. The report also explains how much money …
How can civilians be protected from Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Recently, the State Parties to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) decided to suspend some of the privileges and rights Syria has under the Chemical Weapons Convention. …
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How does, can and should the EU work for nuclear disarmament?
On 29 April the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) organized a webinar on ‘The European Union’s Role in Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and Its Engagement with Academia and the …
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Nuclear Acronyms
When reading about new developments on nuclear weapons, sometimes the number of acronyms and abbreviations used can be a little bit confusing. This handy list should make it go a …