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.

June 7, 2010
Nuclear Deterrence Scam Blocking Progress to a Safer World The Huffington Post
By Robert Green
I recently returned home to New Zealand from attending a major conference at the United Nations in New York reviewing prospects for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament...

June 3, 2010
Eight Nations Hold 7,540 Deployed Nukes, Report Finds Global Security Newswire
Eight nations at the beginning of 2010 held an estimated 7,540 operational nuclear weapons, a figure that is down somewhat from last year due largely to the withdrawal by Russia and the United States of fielded warheads, according to a yearly report released yesterday by a Sweden-based think tank...

May 31, 2010
The Challenge of Moving Fast toward a Nuke-Free World TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD
By Ernest Corea
WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - Gloom-and-doom headlines in the waning days of the 2010 review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) caused many observers to assume that negotiations would collapse in deadlock, but the Final Declaration of the conference was adopted without dissent. Consensus on potentially contentious issues was a significant milestone on the path toward nuclear disarmament...

May 31, 2010
An Important Step toward Nuclear Abolition TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD
By Jamshed Baruah
BERLIN (IDN) - While the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sounds rather upbeat on the outcome of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference that wrapped up on May 28, official Washington’s reaction is rather critical of some important parts of the 28-page final document...

May 26, 2010
Two more nations ratify UN-backed treaty banning nuclear testing UN News Centre
26 May 2010 - The Central African Republic and Trinidad and Tobago today ratified the United Nations-backed treaty that prohibits all nuclear tests, bringing the total number of countries bound by the global ban to 153...

May 24, 2010
Nuclear Powers Set To Punish Non-Nuclear States TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD
By Fareed Mahdy
ISTANBUL (IDN) - The five largest nuclear powers (USA, UK. France, Russia, and China) are set to impose tougher sanctions against non-nuclear Iran, while reminding the other two non-atomic states such as Turkey and Brazil, that only they can decide how and when to solve (or not) their purposely escalated conflict with Iran...

May 24, 2010
Too much at stake for failure at nuclear review conference, Ban says UN News Centre
24 May 2010 - As a major review conference on nuclear non-proliferation enters its final week, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today exhorted nations to look beyond their own interests to achieve wide-ranging goals on disarmament...

May 23, 2010
Nukes-Free Future May Depend on Citizen Campaigns Inter Press Service
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, May 23, 2010 (IPS) - Ambassador Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, a former U.N. under-secretary-general, offered a piece of advice to anti-nuclear activists campaigning for the abolition of nuclear weapons: "Don't depend on governments - and don't depend on the United Nations..."

May 17, 2010
Anti-nuke film sounds terror warning at Cannes AFP
CANNES, France - A terrifying study of the nuclear threat was launched at the Cannes film festival on Sunday, in a heavyweight campaign documentary showing how terrorists can get hold of atomic weapons...

May 15, 2010
At UN, deadline aired for abolishing nuke weapons The Associated Press
By Charles J. Hanley
UNITED NATIONS - The United States, Russia and other nuclear powers would agree to a global conference in 2014 to negotiate a timetable for abolishing nuclear arms, under a draft committee report submitted Friday, halfway through a monthlong conference reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)...

May 13, 2010
Treaty Aimed at Banning Nukes Remains Grounded Inter Press Service
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, May 13, 2010 (IPS) - The world's anti-war activists, including parliamentarians, civil society groups and diplomats, have succeeded in creating international treaties to ban a wide array of deadly weapons: anti-personnel landmines, blinding laser weapons, cluster munitions, dum-dum bullets and chemical and biological weapons...

May 12, 2010
Youth Want Nukes Abolished - Push for New Convention TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD
By Jamshed Baruah
BERLIN/TOKYO (IDN) - As senior officials from around the world negotiate in New York an agreement aimed at curbing the spread of nuclear weapons, a close look at the attitudes of the youth in six countries offers a critical insight into the need for spreading word about the culture of peace...

May 11, 2010
Japan, 41 nations call for promotion of nuke disarmament education iStockAnalyst
NEW YORK, May 11, 2010 (Kyodo News International) -- A group of 42 countries led by Japan called for promoting education for nuclear disarmament in a joint statement Tuesday at a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...

May 10, 2010
Now the time to ban nukes: Nobel laureate The Japan Times Online
By Seana K. Magee
NEW YORK - Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams says a window of opportunity is now open to push U.N. officials to begin work on a new comprehensive treaty to ban nuclear weapons, but the opportunity shouldn't be squandered...

May 7, 2010
Will Mideast Tug-Of-War Wreck Anti-Nuke Meet? TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - When the last review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ended inconclusively - after four long weeks of protracted negotiations - the meeting was described as having accomplished "very little" with no substantive agreement...