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March 8, 2010
U.N. Head Calls For Productive Nuclear Treaty Meeting Global Security Newswire
The secretary general of the United Nations on Friday said he hoped for a productive Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference in May, Agence France-Presse reported...

March 7, 2010
The Last Train From Hiroshima--The Issue Is Our Future (3/2010) BASIL & SPICE
By Loyd E. Eskildson
Pellegrino's The Last Train From Hiroshima tells the personal stories of many Japanese citizens directly affected by our A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

March 5, 2010
New Zealand Celebrates 40 Years Of Nuclear Treaty Voxy.co.nz
Forty years after its entry into force on 5 March 1970, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) remains at the heart of the global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, Disarmament Minister Georgina te Heuheu said today...

March 3, 2010
Japan Pledges Abstinence As U.S. Reviews Nuke Posture IDN InDepthNews
By Jaya Ramachandran
BERLIN (IDN) - As the only country having suffered nuclear bombings and intermittently rattled by atomic tremors from Pyongyang, Japan is not only anxiously looking forward to a new orientation of the role and mission of the U.S. nuclear forces in the next five to ten years, but also trying to influence Washington's decisions...

March 3, 2010
Will Eliminating Nuclear Weapons Make Peace More Likely? Antiwar.com
By Ivan Eland
President Barack Obama has committed to a world without nuclear weapons. Although deep cuts in the massive atomic stockpiles of the United States and Russia - with a combined total of 20,000 warheads - are possible and desirable, committing to eliminating nuclear weapons from the planet is good rhetoric but may actually be harmful to peace...

March 2, 2010
Nuclear Security Summit Participants to Include India and Pakistan Global Security Newswire
Delegates from rival nuclear states India and Pakistan are set to participate next month in U.S. President Barack Obama's Global Nuclear Security Summit, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday...

February 27, 2010
Norway - Joint disarmament initiative in NATO ISRIA Geopolitical and Diplomatic Intelligence
Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have called on NATO to support efforts to achieve a world without nuclear weapons. "Our aim is to reduce the importance of nuclear weapons in NATO’s security policy," said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre...

February, 2010
Nonproliferation's Contribution Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
By George Perkovich, Deepti Choubey
The great destructive power of the first atomic bomb persuaded many leaders of the need to constrain that power...

February 25, 2010
What to do about tactical nuclear weapons Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By Pavel Podvig
Since the United States and Russia might soon sign a new treaty that limits their strategic nuclear weapons, it's natural to wonder about Washington and Moscow's tactical nuclear weapons, which the treaty won't cover...

February 23, 2010
United States to Retire Nuclear-Armed Tomahawk Missiles Union of Concerned Scientists
WASHINGTON (February 23, 2010) - The Japanese press reported yesterday that the United States will retire its nuclear-armed Tomahawk cruise missiles, signifying the end of an ongoing debate within the Obama administration over the future of these weapons...

February 19, 2010
Five NATO States Want U.S. Nukes Out of Europe, Report Says Global Security Newswire
Five European nations are set to call on the United States to remove all nuclear weapons from the continent, Agence France-Presse reported today...

February 19, 2010
People's Pressure Vital For A Nuclear-Weapons Free World IDN InDepthNews
By Taro Ichikawa
TOKYO (IDN) - 'Cities and citizens of the world, unite! Unite for a world without nuclear weapons!' This is the clarion call Dr. Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of the City of Hiroshima, would like to hear resonate in the remotest corners of the globe...

February 18, 2010
Biden to Push Test-Ban Treaty WSJ.com
By Jonathan Weisman
WASHINGTON-Vice President Joseph Biden will begin the first push for congressional ratification of the United Nations nuclear test-ban treaty since the Clinton presidency, with a speech Thursday saying the Obama administration's large funding request for monitoring will make tests obsolete...

February 18, 2010
Nuclear Disarmament Science: How to Be Dumb Enough to Be Smart Science/AAAS
By Eli Kintisch
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA-As underscored by today's announcement by Vice President Joe Biden, the Obama Administration has undertaken a historic effort to cut its nuclear arsenal...

February 16, 2010
Multilateral disarmament treaties can provide uniform rules for all, Petrishenko says The national legal Internet portal of the Republic of Belarus
MINSK, 16 February (BelTA) - Universal multilateral disarmament treaties are the only tools that are able to provide uniform rules of the game for all the states, said First Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Igor Petrishenko as he addressed a plenary session of the Conference on Disarmament, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus...