To Tlateloco, With Love
St. Valentine’s day is more than a day to buy little gifts for your love, it is also a day to celebrate the world’s first nuclear weapons free zone. It …
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Nuclear Security, Safety and Non-proliferation.
When it comes to international oversight on nuclear materials, there seems to be a gap. In a few short weeks the second Nuclear Security Summit will take place. Heads …
Nuclear Power? No thanks- Global Conference in Japan
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in March 2011, have had dramatic impact around the world. Civil society organizations have …
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Iran’s uranium enrichment: Some facts and thoughts
While tension is rising internationally over the question if Iran is building a nuclear weapon and if so, who should do what about it, Iran announces that it has started up …
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Spinning the drone
Never trust the first report you get on an international incident. It’s an important trick of the trade. Always wait for that second analysis, preferably from a source close to …
Nuclear Morality
Nuclear weapons have a moral component- their incredible destructive power means they are designed for annihilation. Annihilation, Armageddon, these are biblical images for the end of the world. Nuclear weapons, …
Yellowcake
Uranium oxide or a delicacy to bake on a cold, dark Sunday afternoon: yellowcake has two very different faces. As the holidays are fast approaching, as the weather gets colder …
Review: The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) report, “Reducing Nuclear Risks in Europe: A framework for action
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) report,“Reducing Nuclear Risks in Europe: A framework for action”, is a well timed effort to sum up the state of the debate on NATO nuclear …
Middle East WMD Free Zone- a suggestion for 2012
An article in today’s Global Security Newswire suggests that incremental steps are the best approach towards a Zone Free of Nuclear and other Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle …
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The Dutch government can and should demand that the Alliance takes the rational and mature decision to retire the obsolete TNW
Please find below Wilbert van der Zeijden’s article on TNW that appears this week in magazine Internationale Spectator. Wilbert shows that NATO’s Defence and Deterrence Posture Review process offers a last chance …