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Félix Baumann: The War in Ukraine Contributed to the Failure of the UN Nuclear Weapons Conference

Opinion by Stephane Bussard
• August 31, 2022

After three weeks of negotiations at the United Nations headquarters, the 191 states parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) failed to adopt a final document at the 10th review conference of the NPT, held…

Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security

OPINIONS

Could WMD Be Used in the War in Ukraine?

Opinion by Nikolai Sokov
• March 24, 2022

Lately, pundits, experts and even government officials are increasingly discussing the possible use of nuclear weapons and/or other weapons of mass destruction amid the war Russia launched against Ukraine a month ago. A closer look, however, suggests that while…

Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security

THIS WEEK @UN

The IAEA Chief’s Laments; Two UN Giants Mourned; European Peacekeepers Attacked in Mali

Ivana Ramirez
• June 25, 2021

Rafael Grossi of the IAEA on Iran, gender bias and diplomacy; nuke-weapons countries just keep spending billions; European peacekeepers attacked in Gao, Mali. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information…

Categories: Africa, LGBT, Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations

In the Middle of the Pandemic, Nuclear-Weapons Spending Shot Up, a New Report Says

Ivana Ramirez
• June 22, 2021

In 2020, during one of the worst global pandemics in recent history, killing more than three million people that year from the Covid-19 virus, nine nuclear-armed countries spent $72.6 billion on bolstering and modernizing their arsenals, at a rate…