74 years ago today…
An atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.The last to be used in war, but by no means the last innocents killed by nuclear weapons. The risks around nuclear weapons are …
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RIP INF Treaty
Today is it, the time is up, and the INF treaty has collapsed. The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty that began the wind-down of the Cold War. For the …
Making new Plutonium Pits is a BAD PLAN
Anyone who grew up in the 1980s will remember how hard it was for Doc to get the plutonium he needed to power his time travelling DeLorean. Today, the US …
Dutch government sets a (qualified) timeline to end the nuclear task
The Dutch government published its response to a report by the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) (31 January 2019), called “Nuclear weapons in a new geopolitical reality.” In the …
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Dutch parliament to hear from disarmament experts
Today, 26 June, the Dutch Foreign Affairs committee will hear from a panel of experts on possibilities for Dutch activity to achieve nuclear disarmament. PAX, along with ICAN, the Dutch …
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NPT Prepares for contentious 2020
The 2019 NPT Prepcom ended with a set of representative recommendations to the review- but they were not adopted by consensus. Instead, some states tried to push back against previously …
NPT- creating the environment for delayed delivery
This week, the PAX no nukes team is in New York for the NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting. There is a degree of tension, as arms control agreements outside these UN …
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New PAX report: billions in contracts for nuclear weapons industry
Today, ICAN and PAX co-published a new report that shows how the commercial sector is massively involved in producing nuclear weapons. The report, “Producing mass destruction: Private companies and the …
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Opinion poll: Dutch citizens want to get rid of nuclear weapons
Public opinion company YouGov carried out a poll commissioned by PAX and ICAN on how Dutch citizens think about nuclear weapons. The results are clear: a majority of the Dutch …
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Future of nuclear weapons – report by International Affairs Council
In the same week that the United States announced its withdrawal from the INF-treaty, the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) published an advice titled ‘Nuclear weapons in a …
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