“Let us be a lesson”: Kazakhs wary of return to nuclear testing
MARIYA GORDEYEVA, of Reuters, reports from Kazakhstan as it continues to grapple with the legacy of nuclear weapons tests conducted between 1949 and 1989…
Russian Duma takes first step to revoke ratification of nuclear test ban treaty
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russia’s parliament took the first step on Tuesday towards revoking ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and its top lawmaker warned the United States that Moscow might even abandon the pact altogether. Russia says the aim is to restore parity with the United States, which has signed but never ratified […]
North Korea developing nuclear weapons, evading sanctions in 2023 – UN report
United NationsReuters North Korea continued developing nuclear weapons and producing nuclear fissile material in 2023 and evading United Nations sanctions that aim to cut off funding for Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, according to an unpublished United Nations report seen by Reuters on Thursday. “After a record-breaking level of cyber thefts in 2022, estimated […]
Essay: United Nations wants to resurrect a global disarmament mechanism last used in the 1980s
ELOISA ROMANI and ZAHRAA KAPASI, of the Strategic Concept for the Removal of Arms and Proliferation (Scrap Weapons) disarmament initiative based at SOAS University of London, explain – in an article first published on The Conversation – why the “machinery” of the disarmament agenda needs to be revisited…
Essay: The atomic bomb shocked the world, but not enough to stop killing civilians
In an article first published on Religion News Service, BRIDGET MOIX, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, says that as we mourn the devastation of the last world war, policymakers need to work to prevent the next one…
Belarus leader says nuclear arms will not be used
Reuters Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the Kremlin’s staunchest ally in its war in Ukraine, said on Friday he was certain Russian tactical nuclear weapons deployed in his country would never be used. Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin have acknowledged that some tactical weapons have arrived in Belarus and the remainder would be put in […]
Putin says Russia positions nuclear bombs in Belarus as warning to West
Reuters President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that his deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, something he confirmed for the first time had already happened, was a reminder to the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. Speaking at Russia’s flagship economic forum in St Petersburg, Putin said Russian tactical […]
Pope joins with imam in making calls for peace before UN Security Council vote
United NationsAP Pope Francis and a leading Sunni imam made calls for peace as the UN Security Council met Wednesday to discuss the importance of “human fraternity” and condemn the hatreds that kindle conflicts. The Pope, who is in hospital recovering from abdominal surgery, sent a statement saying that a third world war is being […]
US to stop giving Russia some New START nuclear arms data
Washington DC, USReuters The United States said it will stop providing Russia some notifications required under the New START arms control treaty from Thursday, including updates on its missile and launcher locations, to retaliate for Moscow’s “ongoing violations” of the accord. In a fact sheet on its website, the State Department said it would also […]
Russia moves ahead with deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus
Moscow, RussiaReuters Russia moved ahead on Thursday with a plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, whose leader said the warheads were already on the move, in the Kremlin’s first deployment of such bombs outside Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. The US State Department denounced the deployment plan, but said […]