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April 2, 2010
U.S. Ratification of CTBT Faces Additional Challenges Global Security Newswire
The extended amount of time it took for the United States to negotiate a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia is thought to have hurt the chances for U.S. Senate ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty this year, the Associated Press reported today...

April 1, 2010
Prioritizing investment in nuclear security education Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By Fissile Materials Working Group
To a large degree, the implementation of robust nuclear security depends on the availability of qualified and dedicated specialists. Unfortunately, such nuclear security specialists are in short supply and training programs for the next generation are limited as well...

March 31, 2010
The Nature of Nuclear Disarmament Obligations and the Relative Responsibilities of Nuclear-Armed and Non–Nuclear-Weapon States Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
By George Perkovich, James M. Acton
In Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (2008), we emphasized the indisputable point that nuclear-armed states can benefit from and afford to take many steps to reduce the numbers and salience of nuclear weapons irrespective of progress on nonproliferation...

March 30, 2010
Preventing nuclear terrorism Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By Fissile Materials Working Group
The television drama 24 is currently portraying one of the most frightening and dangerous terrorist scenarios possible--an anti-American terrorist group with radioactive fissile materials intent on detonating a "dirty bomb" in New York City to render it uninhabitable for decades to come...

March 29, 2010
Q&A: To Try With Nukes as With Mines Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 29, 2010 (IPS) - Since the expiration of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in December, U.S. and Russian negotiators have been busy hammering out a new pact that will reduce the number of nuclear warheads deployed in both countries by about one-quarter, according to Washington...

March 29, 2010
Thailand faces up to non-proliferation challenges THE NATION
By Kavi Chongkittavorn
US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA issued a last minute invitation to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva recently to attend the Global Nuclear Summit in Washington DC scheduled on 12-13 April. Visiting Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, delivered Obama's letter to Abhisit when he made a courtesy call on 12 March...

March 26, 2010
Ban welcomes new arms pact between Russia and the United States UN News Centre
26 March 2010 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed today''s agreement reached between Russia and the United States to reduce their arsenals, hailing it as an “important milestone” in global efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons...

March 24, 2010
Australia, Japan Submit Disarmament Proposals For NPT Review Conference Global Security Newswire
Australia and Japan have put together a proposal of 16 nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation measures for consideration at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference in May, the Australian Foreign Ministry announced today...

March 23, 2010
Making the Middle East nuclear-free guardian.co.uk
By Dan Plesch
On Wednesday night, in London, there is a rare chance to engage in dialogue with Israelis and Palestinians on the issue of ridding the Middle East of nuclear weapons...

March 22, 2010
Anti-Nuke U. The Huffington Post
By Russ Wellen
THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- Last week we discussed how to communicate the subject of disarmament to the public, or at least the "persuadable middle" (a.k.a. independents)...

March 17, 2010
DISARMAMENT: Japan Pushes for Progress in U.S. Nuclear Review Inter Press Service
By Jamshed Baruah
BERLIN, Mar 17, 2010 (IPS) - Japanese parliamentarians and activists pin high hopes on the hotly debated and much anticipated U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) to which the Barack Obama administration is reported to be giving finishing touches...

March 17, 2010
Nuclear Pre-Game Huddle The Huffington Post
By Joe Cirincione
Get ready to dance. If you like the excitement of March Madness, you're going to love April. It will begin possibly the busiest four months in arms control history...

March 17, 2010
Nobel Peace Prize winner ElBaradei writing memoir The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei (ehl-BEHR'-uh-day) is writing a memoir about his years as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, including the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...

March 16, 2010
Regional Nuclear War Could Devastate World Population, Report Warns Global Security Newswire
Computer modeling suggests a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would block out the sun with large amounts of airborne debris, disrupting global agriculture and leading to the starvation of around 1 billion people, Scientific American reported in its January issue...

March 14, 2010
Stronger political will required to achieve complete global non-proliferation: Kazakh FM Oneindia News
Geneva, Mar.14 (ANI): Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister, Kanat Saudabayev, has expressed grave concern over the international community's lack of political will to achieve complete global non-proliferation, and reiterated that this is an absolute must to ensure both nuclear security and the peaceful use of nuclear equipment and energy...