This section provides a general overview of nuclear related issues. The following articles are obtained from external news sources for whose content SGI takes no responsibility.

August 31, 2010
Moving to a Safer World with a Million Pleas Campaign TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD
By Neena Bhandari
SYDNEY (IDN) – As the threat of nuclear annihilation becomes more real than ever before, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Australia has launched a 'Million Pleas' campaign, emphasising the urgency to rid the world of these weapons...

August, 2010
Government positions on a nuclear weapons convention International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
This document provides a comprehensive guide to government positions ona nuclear weapons convention — a global treaty to outlaw and eliminate nuclear weapons within a specified timeframe...

August 27, 2010
Kazakhstan Leads Battle to Ban Nuclear Testing TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD
By Megan Iacobini de Fazio
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The first International Day against Nuclear Testing will be marked on August 29 by festivities in Astana, Kazakhstan and major cities around the world, with the goal of raising awareness of the importance of banning nuclear tests and to educate people on the catastrophic effects past tests have had on human beings and the environment...

August 27, 2010
UN urges all States to ratify global treaty banning nuclear tests UN News Centre
27 August 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging all Member States that have not yet done so to ratify the United Nations-backed treaty banning nuclear tests, saying it is important to build on the momentum made on disarmament and non-proliferation over the past year...

August 26, 2010
Nobel Laureates Urge Obama to Renew Nuclear Disarmament Campaign Global Security Newswire
Five recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize are urging U.S. President Barack Obama to renew efforts toward global nuclear disarmament by making a high-profile trip to Hiroshima, the Japanese city where an atomic weapon was first used in war, the Associated Press reported yesterday...

August 23, 2010
The Arabs and the Race to Nuclear Hell TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD
By Fareed Mahdy
ISTANBUL (IDN) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sounds rather optimistic -- or has chosen to do so: “Recently, we have seen signs of progress on nuclear non-proliferation talks,” he said some two weeks ahead of announcing on August. 3 that ministerial-level discussions on eliminating the world’s nuclear weapons will take place in New York in September. But signals from both the Arab region and the U.S. induce a dramatically different conclusion...

August 23, 2010
Long Road to Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Began This Week Blogcritics
By William Lambers
It was on August 22nd, 1958 that President Dwight Eisenhower called for negotiations with the Soviet Union to craft a treaty ending nuclear weapons testing...

August 22, 2010
The unmaking of the atomic bomb The Washington Post
By George Perkovich
THE TWILIGHT OF THE BOMBS
Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons...

August 18, 2010
Nuclear Suppliers Group and the IAEA Additional Protocol Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Six years after talks began, the 46 countries that set rules for global nuclear trade have not been able to reach an agreement on proposed new guidelines governing the export of items used for sensitive nuclear fuel cycle activities—uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing...

August 17, 2010
‘Model of how to conduct international collaboration’ getreading
By Linda Fort
Staff at the atomic weapons factory in Aldermaston have won a major Ministry of Defence award for a project working with non-nuclear power Norway...

August 14, 2010
China's nuke arsenal limited to lowest levels: top General ZEENEWS.COM
Beijing: China has limited its nuclear weapons capacity to the lowest levels as it refrains from an arms race and strictly pursues a no first use policy, a top General of the People's Liberation Army, has claimed...

August 13, 2010
IAEA Opened Its Doors for International Youth Day IAEA.org
By Misha Kidambi
At the UN headquarters in the Vienna International Centre (VIC), various organisations, including the IAEA, marked the International Youth Day by participating in an "open day" for the youth...

August 9, 2010
PEACE SHADOW PROJECT PEACE SHADOW PROJECT
A petition for a world without nuclear weapons, that you can participate by submitting your shadow. It is an art project that allows people in different places with diffenet ideas to build up the project for the same belief.

August 9, 2010
Nagasaki marks 65th anniversary of atomic bombing with call for nuclear abolition The Mainichi Daily News
NAGASAKI -- Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue urged nuclear nations not to trample on efforts to achieve a nuclear-free world in a ceremony on Aug. 9 marking the 65th anniversary of the World War II atomic bombing of the city...

August 9, 2010
Rajiv Gandhi Plan: a valuable solution The Hindu
By Sandeep Dikshit
Why India should take forward Rajiv Gandhi's action plan for a nuclear-weapons-free and non-violent world order...