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.

April 14, 2010
On heels of nuclear security summit, UN atomic watchdog seeks more funding UN News Centre
14 April 2010 - The United Nations agency that plays a leading role in trying to stop terrorists getting their hands on nuclear materials is seeking greater funding to carry out its task following this week’s Washington summit on nuclear security...

April 14, 2010
Redefine Japan-U.S. Alliance for Global Denuclearization IDN InDepthNews
By Masayoshi Hamada
TOKYO (IDN) - Japan is serving in the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council in April, ahead of the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons scheduled for May 2010...

April 13, 2010
Nuclear Security Summit Boosts Disarmament Agenda Inter Press Service
By Matthew Berger and Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Apr 13, 2010 (IPS) - On the second and last day of the largest gathering of world leaders ever in Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama connected the commitments made here on securing vulnerable nuclear materials to the broader goal of a "nuclear-free world"...

April 12, 2010
Ban urges action as nuclear security summit begins in Washington UN News Centre
12 April 2010 - As world leaders gather today in Washington for the start of a nuclear security summit, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he will urge those leaders to come together to rein in nuclear proliferation and prevent extremists from acquiring atomic weapons...

April 12, 2010
Costa Rica Appeals To New Zealand To Promote Draft Nuclear Abolition Treaty Voxy.co.nz
The Costa Rican government has appealed to the New Zealand government to join them and others in supporting the United Nations Secretary-General's initiative to promote a proposed global treaty to abolish nuclear weapons...

April 12, 2010
NGOs Praise U.S. Leadership on Nukes Inter Press Service
By Matthew Berger and Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Apr 12, 2010 (IPS) - One of the largest gatherings of world leaders ever on U.S. soil began Monday with representatives of 47 countries gathering here for the Nuclear Security Summit...

April 9, 2010
POLITICS: World Leaders to Meet on Nuclear Security Inter Press Service
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Apr 9, 2010 (IPS) - On Apr. 12 and 13, U.S. President Barack Obama will host over 40 world leaders in Washington to develop a strategy to secure nuclear materials and prevent nuclear terrorism, following up on his announcements this week that that the U.S. would significantly modify its nuclear strategy and reduce the number of nuclear warheads in its stockpile by one-third...

April 9, 2010
Toward a Modern Nuclear Security Enterprise IDN InDepthNews
By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN (IDN) - Transformation of the U.S. atomic weapons complex into “a modern, sustainable 21st century nuclear security enterprise” forms the nucleus of President Barack Obama's agenda manifested in the new START Treaty, he and Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev signed in Prague on April 8...

April 8, 2010
Top UN officials hail new Russian-US nuclear arms reduction treaty UN News Centre
8 April 2010 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog have welcomed the new treaty signed today by the leaders of Russia and the United States by which they pledged to slash their nuclear arsenals by a third...

April 8, 2010
DISARMAMENT: Hollywood Documentary Calls for Zero Nuclear Weapons Inter Press Service
By Pratap Chatterjee
WASHINGTON, Apr 8, 2010 (IPS) - Hollywood and Silicon Valley leaders have teamed up with Middle Eastern royalty and high-level U.S. diplomats to send a message to heads of state who are gathering here in Washington next week: the world needs to reduce its nuclear arsenal to zero as soon as possible...

April 6, 2010
DISARMAMENT: Mixed Reviews for Obama's Nuclear Strategy Inter Press Service
By Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Apr 6, 2010 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday unveiled a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that will significantly limit the circumstances under which Washington would use nuclear weapons as part of a strategy to bolster the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and other efforts to halt and reverse the spread of nuclear arms...

April 6, 2010
From atom test ground zero, Ban pleads for nuclear weapons-free world UN News Centre
6 April 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today flew to a former ground zero of atom bomb testing in a highly symbolic gesture to plead for a nuclear weapons-free world on the eve of this week’s United States-Russian summit to sign a new nuclear arsenal reduction treaty...

April 5, 2010
A Season for Disarmament The Huffington Post
By Hans Blix
STOCKHOLM -- The financial crisis and global warming have had the world's attention in recent years. Thanks to President Barack Obama's initiative, perhaps the season for nuclear disarmament has finally arrived.。。

April 4, 2010
Those Who Want Nuclear Wars, Raise Their Hand IDN InDepthNews
By Fareed Mahdy
ISTANBUL (IDN) – Now that nuclear arsenals reduction is much in the news, the U.S. and Russia have agreed to downsize their stockpiles by 30 percent and all 22 Arab countries called for a nuke-free world, it's time to ask how many countries have decided to eliminate the threat of a devastating nuclear war and consequently managed to liberate themselves from the most atrocious weapons of mass destruction...

April 3, 2010
Dramatic Arab Appeal for a Nuclear-Free World Faxts.com
By Fareed Mahdy
ISTANBUL (IDN) - Call it perfect timing or a sheer historical coincidence; be it because they feel caught between the Israeli nuclear hammer and the Iranian might-be atomic anvil or just because they truly want it, the fact is that the leaders of 22 Arab countries have launched an unprecedented massive and pressing call to free the world from nuclear weapons...