NPDI Matters
As the April Ministerial meeting of the Non Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI) will convene in The Hague, the Netherlands, the Dutch Peace and Security Organisation IKV Pax Christi took …
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To go, or not to go nuclear: that’s the question
Why do States wish for nuclear weapons, or not? What are the aims, motivations and incentives to create and maintain such weapons of mass destruction? Do nuclear weapons create security? …
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To go, or not to go nuclear: that’s the question
Why do States wish for nuclear weapons, or not? What are the aims, motivations and incentives to create and maintain such weapons of mass destruction? Do nuclear weapons create security? …
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Ribbon cutting, song, dance and disarmament!
I’m currently in Nagasaki, where the 5th Nagasaki Global Citizens’ Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons is taking place. Before the opening of the conference, I was invited to …
A new momentum in nuclear disarmament
I remember being at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference in Vienna last year when Norway announced that it would be hosting a conference on the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. …
Israeli Disarmament Movement calls on government to join process to ban nuclear weapons
The Israeli Disarmament Movement in an inspiring clip calls on the Israeli government to join other countries starting the process towards a general ban on nuclear weapons.
So it begins…
It happened, Mexico announced a follow-up meeting to continue discussing the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. It’s a no-brainer really, there was so much information, of course we need to …
Oslo conference starts today: livestream AND great video statement by ICAN
Today the Oslo conference on the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons starts. Today 132 delegation will discuss the issue. Susi Snyder and I will be present and will hopefully …
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Zombie weapons
As John Borrie put it this morning at the ICAN Civil Society Conference: Nukes are like zombies. The are mindless, they are indiscriminate in who they target and they are …
Face it, it’s just a weapon
Naima McClean, an energetic poet and performer from South Africa encouraged an audience of hundreds to shout “hero, hero, hero” at ten o’ clock in the morning. If Emma Goldman …