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 …
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First NATO Ministerial for the Biden team
Late March saw the most recent meeting of NATO’s member states’ foreign ministers and Secretary-General Stoltenberg. SG Stoltenberg briefed the press on different proposals lying on the table regarding common …
March 2021 Dutch Election outcomes and nuclear weapons
I thought the Dutch were supposed to be progressive…. Now I’m not so sure…. The Netherlands held a national election on 17 March 2021 with over 30 parties on the …
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New START extension, a good beginning
On 26 January, the United States and the Russian Federation agreed to extend their only remaining bilateral agreement on U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty …
Ban the bomb and ban the bombmakers, starting in Amsterdam!
The city council of Amsterdam supports a motion calling on the Dutch government to join the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This recognises the historic role the …
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Nuclear weapon are (still) in the Netherlands
The Dutch Parliament has debated it for decades. Former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers confirmed it on TV (in 2013). And now, it’s been said again- there are nuclear bombs in …
Religious communities
Religious communities play an important role in the global aim for a world without nuclear weapons. Pope Francis, for instance, is for an outspoken supporter of the Treaty on the …
Today we remember Hiroshima
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the horrific atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Together with the bombing of Nagasaki on 9 August, the two bombs killed about 240,000 civilians by the …
The first nuclear bomb
On July 16, 1945 the first nuclear bomb was detonated. in an experiment code named ‘Trinity’, a second sun rose in the mountains of New Mexico. “The effects could well …
Three years
Three years. A lot can change in three years, but a lot can also stay the same. Imagine what three years really means.