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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 …
How does, can and should the EU work for nuclear disarmament? Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
March 2021 Dutch Election outcomes and nuclear weapons Read More »
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 …
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 …
Ban the bomb and ban the bombmakers, starting in Amsterdam! Read More »
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 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 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 …
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 …
