It is now more than 71 years ago that atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The people who survived these horrific events still deal …
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Start negotiations on a total, worldwide ban on all nuclear weapons. A resolution calling for such negotiations has been submitted to the United Nations General Assembly. Later this month, the …
Austria’s foreign minister, Sebastian Kurz, announced on Wednesday that his country would join other UN member states in tabling a resolution next month to convene negotiations on a legally binding …
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Representatives from China, France, Russia, UK and US (the P5) just met in Washington DC to talk about nuclear weapons. They issued a statement from that meeting, describing what they …
The story of an atomic bomb survivor from Nagasaki and today’s debate on nuclear weapons Thursday 6 October | 18:30h | Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam Every year, people from all …
North Korea announced it conducted another nuclear weapons test, the largest to date. This continues a cycle of repeated nuclear weapon and missile testing. PAX condemns this harmful and destabilizing action. North Korea …
Today is the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. The International Day Against Nuclear Tests is established by the United Nations (UN) to educate people about the importance of a ban …
I just got back from quite an exciting time in Geneva. This UN working group set up to take forward multilateral negotiations on nuclear weapons actually voted to do that. …
A nuclear working group at the UN concluded its work in Geneva today and the overwhelming majority of governments recommended that the UN General Assembly set up a conference in …
A ban on nuclear weapons is coming. The majority have spoken, in one voice: “The convening by the General Assembly of a conference in 2017 open to all states, international …
