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May 7, 2013
'Don't Take Arabs' NPT Membership for Granted'
TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD | IDN
Baher Kamal
Not that nuclear issues are an actual source of concern to Egyptian citizens. They are deeply worried about their present and immediate future now that inter-religious violence is on the rise, triggering a dangerous, growing insecurity amidst an overwhelming popular discontent with President Mohamed Morsi’s regime. Simply put, there is too much frustration and deception here to think of nukes.
May 7, 2013
A cut-off point for nuclear weapons?
The Express Tribune
Ejaz Haider
Some days ago, at the Islamabad Literary Festival — yes, literature has finally reached the Margallas — I chanced to sit through a session dubbed “Nuclear Pakistan: An Overview of the Strategic Dimensions”. It was a monumental disappointment. There was nothing “strategic” about the session. It wasn’t even a poor rehash of an introductory class on nuclear strategy and the trajectory older nuclear powers took, and which was found wanting in almost all its facets.
May 7, 2013
Australian researchers help free the Middle East from weapons of mass destruction
The University of Queensland News
Researchers from The University of Queensland are helping to establish the Middle East as a zone free from nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
May 7, 2013
White paper a small step towards nuclear non-proliferation
abc news
Tanya Ogilvie-White
There is no doubt that Australia continues to rely on the US nuclear umbrella for protection but the 2013 Defence white paper shows we are taking steps towards nuclear non-proliferation, writes Tanya Ogilvie-White. The role that US nuclear weapons play in Australian strategic policy is given far less emphasis in the new Defence white paper.
May 7, 2013
Anti-nuclear activists set out on three-month march to Hiroshima
The Japan Daily Press
Ida Torres
Around 1,000 anti-nuclear activists started a three-month march towards Hiroshima on Monday, in a bid to get the public’s attention in their call for the abolishment of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Their target is to reach Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park by August 4, two days before the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
May 6. 2013
U.N. Accused of Playing Down Nuke Disarmament Conference
TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD | IPS
Thalif Dean
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is one of the most vociferous advocates of a world free of nuclear weapons. “Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals,” he says. “They are critical to global peace and security.” Still, the Group of 77, the largest single coalition of 132 developing countries, implicitly accuses the United Nations of falling short in its efforts to publicise a meeting on nuclear disarmament scheduled to take place Sep. 26.
May 4, 2013
India's nuclear deterrence capacity is in place, the country can sleep well: Defence research chief
NDTV
In a big step towards securing India's capabilities for nuclear deterrence, the reactor on board India's indigenously made nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant will become operational in three weeks. After that, INS Arihant will be ready for sea-trials and will subsequently be commissioned to the Indian Navy.
May 3, 2013
Japanese Nukes a Possibility if China's Power Spikes, Analysts Warn
Global Security Newswire
Diane Barnes
Any major U.S. force reduction in the Asia-Pacific could prompt Japan to build its own nuclear weapons to ward off aggression from an ascendant China, independent experts and former U.S. government analysts warned in a report published on Friday.
May 3, 2013
Nations at Nuclear Meeting Say Too Many on Alert
AP
John Heilprin
More than 100 nations concluding a round of global nuclear talks Friday expressed alarm that many nuclear weapons are kept at a high-alert level and are still being modernized, despite a promise to get rid of them.
May 2, 2013
Hiroshima-size bomb can kill three million in Pakistan
The News
Rasheed Khalid
We are living in a populous region where one Hiroshima size nuclear bomb used by each, according to a joint study conducted by South Asians, can kill three millions in Pakistan and four millions in India, said Dr. A H Nayyar, former professor of Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University.
May 2, 2013
Finnish Envoy Proposes Quick-and-Easy Confab on Mideast WMD Ban
Global Security Newswire
Elaine M. Grossman
The Finnish diplomat charged with organizing a U.N.-sponsored conference on banning weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East this week proposed resolving continued acrimony over the idea by keeping the gathering short and simple.
May 2, 2013
45 years of broken promises on nukes
Morning Star
David Lowry
The nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) preparatory review conference ends on Friday. It's hard to escape the conclusion that the world's nuclear powers have thrown away yet another opportunity to live up to the commitments they made under the treaty to disarm.
May 2, 2013
New Israeli submarines can’t be ‘solely for defensive purposes’
Russia Today
The delivery of a fifth Dolphin-class submarine to Israel from Germany is a worrying “ratcheting up” of tensions in the Middle East, according to two leading anti-nuclear campaigners.
May 2, 2013
US expert urges civilian nuclear deal for Pakistan
The Nation (Pakistan)
The United States should offer Pakistan a conditions-based civilian nuclear deal as a way to save the relationship, severely tested during the last decade, as well as secure long-term interests with regard to containing militancy and atomic safety, an American analyst on South Asia has urged.
May 1, 2013
Japan's Nuclear Plan Unsettles U.S.
The Wall Street Journal
Jay Solomon and Miho Inada
Japan is preparing to start up a massive nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant over the objections of the Obama administration, which fears the move may stoke a broader race for nuclear technologies and even weapons in North Asia and the Middle East.
