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.

January 2, 2010
Green shoots in bid for nuclear disarmament The Irish Times
THE TALK is all of nuclear disarmament. This year is supposed be the year of disarmament, with important work on at least three, maybe four, treaties, and progress on Iran and North Korea. Indeed, the prospects of agreeing in the early new year the first part of this complex jigsaw, a follow-up Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), are good, according to both Washington and Moscow, writes PATRICK SMYTH...

December 31, 2009
Looking Ahead to 2010 IAEA.org
Here is a preview of nuclear-related events and other international developments taking place in the coming year...

December 30, 2009
2009: Year in Review IAEA.org
Nuclear-related events and developments in 2009 reflected global trends dealing with global security, environmental, and economic issues. For the IAEA, in particular, dominant stories highlighted developments leading to the appointment and election of a new Director General, as well as pressing issues in nuclear safety and security, safeguards and non-proliferation...

December 24, 2009
Countdown to Global Zero The Moscow Times
By Mikhail Margelov
The Cold War is over, but the nuclear deterrent remains. This is largely because the West and Russia never fully seized the opportunity that arose 20 years ago. It was a chance for lasting peace, but the two sides opted in the end for a truce...

December 22, 2009
2010 to be key year in fight against nuclear arms Reuters
By David Storey
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Next year will be crucial for global nuclear non-proliferation efforts and all eyes will be on the United States and Russia to see if the two top atomic powers can reach a deal to reduce their arsenals...

December 21, 2009
Pushing back from the brink Montreal Gazette
By Ramesh Thakur
Advances and setbacks in controlling the spread and stockpiles of nuclear weapons seem to occur in decade-long cycles. Shortly before he retired after 12 years as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei described the world's nuclear system as being in tatters...

December 20, 2009
Saurabh Kumar: Striving for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World Business Standard
By Saurabh Kumar
Tucked away in one of the many paragraphs of the Joint Statement issued during the recent US visit of the Prime Minister, unnoticed almost in spite of a voluble media, is an idea that deserves a little more attention than it has got — their “shared vision of a world free of nuclear weapons”, for which US President Obama and PM Manmohan Singh “pledged to work together, as leaders of responsible states with advanced nuclear technology...”

December 19, 2009
NUCLEAR ABOLITION: Commission Spreads Tainted Joy IDN InDepthNews
By Taro Ichikawa
TOKYO (IDN) - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd had reason to rejoice when they received and launched the report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), calling for a cut of more than 90 percent in the world’s nuclear arsenals by 2025...

December 17, 2009
Nearing Arms Pact, U.S. and Russia Look Ahead NYTimes.com
By Helene Cooper and Peter Baker
WASHINGTON — Eight months, three presidential meetings, countless Geneva negotiating sessions and one missed deadline later, the United States and Russia appear close to agreement on a new arms control treaty that will reduce their strategic nuclear arsenals by at least one quarter...

December 14, 2009
Nuclear Disarmament Measures Must Address Fissile Materials, Experts Say Global Security Newswire
By Martin Matishak
WASHINGTON -- In order to truly abolish the threats posed by nuclear weapons the international community must take steps to safeguard or eliminate the fissile materials used in both military and civilian sectors, according to a recently released experts report...

December 14, 2009
New Report Calls for Nuclear States to Reduce Arms Global Security Newswire
By Christian Kerr
Nations with nuclear arms are expected to be called on to reduce their strategic arsenals and to adopt a "no first use" stance in a new report slated for release tomorrow in Tokyo, the Australian Associated Press reported...

December 14, 2009
Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By Richard Rhodes
Today, at the other end of the long trek down the glacier of the Cold War, the nuclear threat has seemingly calved off and fallen into the sea. In 2007, the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project found that 12 countries rated the growing gap between rich and poor as the greatest danger to the world...

December 12, 2009
PERSPECTIVES: Nuclear Power ‘Yes’ – Nuclear Proliferation ‘No’ IDN InDepthNews
By Clive Banerjee
VIENNA (IDN) - Nuclear power is a dirty word for those who champion the cause of clean energy. It needs some guts, therefore, to take up the cudgels on behalf of the atom as an important source of non-fossil energy...

December 11, 2009
DISARMAMENT: DPRK and U.S. Recommit to 2005 Joint Statement Inter Press Service
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (IPS) - United States Envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth announced Thursday that his three-day visit to Pyongyang has produced no commitment from the North Koreans to return to multilateral talks aimed at ending Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. However, both sides recommitted to a 2005 joint statement in which the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) committed to dismantle its nuclear programme in exchange for economic aid and other incentives...

December 8, 2009
POLITICS-ASIA: Inter-religious Forum Calls for Nuclear Abolition Inter Press Service
By Neena Bhandari
MELBOURNE, Dec 8 (IPS) - For the global religious community, the use of nuclear arms is an overwhelmingly important ethical issue for the human family. Thus, nothing less than the immediate abolition of such weapons is needed from the highest levels, said speakers at the Parliament of the World’s Religions currently underway in this Australian city...