"The New START treaty is in the bag, approved by the US Congress and Russian Duma." Hans M Kristensen : "But the treaty does not, as the New York Times report mistakenly states, “require the United States and Russia to reduce their nuclear arsenals…to 1,5
By Ian Gallagher and Daniel Boffey, Daily Mail 22nd November 2009. Photo of Protestors: Cathy Ashton, circled, at No10 in 1982, with Bruce Kent and Joan Ruddock, centre. "Other records detail the contact that Miss Ashton and fellow CND members had with th
17 february 2010. Hundreds of peace protesters demonstrated Monday outside a factory in southern England where warheads for Trident nuclear submarines are made. Despite efforts from Britain's military to scale down long term spending, Defense Secretary Bo
I sin krönika i Dagsavisen 16 april kommenterar Norges utrikesminister Obamas utspel: "Nå kan vi stå ved en korsvei. For to uker siden ble Obama og Medvedev enige om å forhandle om nye reduksjoner i antallet strategiske raketter. I en tale i Praha 5. apri
"In April 1997, Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy/International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation release
Russia must halt its covert development of a banned cruise missile system or the United States will seek to destroy it before it becomes operational, Washington's envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
"... 4 phases, boost, ascent, mid-course and terminal, each corresponding to a different phase of the threat ballistic missile flight regime.... the geography of each defended area dictates the types of systems that can be employed... Alternatively activities are categorized in 5 "blocks". For example, block 4.0 is "Defend Allies and Deployed Forces in Europe from Limited Iranian Long-Range Threats and Expand Protection of U.S. Homeland". It includes the US missile defense complex in Poland to be constructed, and the European Mid-course Radar (EMR) currently located at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll, to be modified and relocated to the Czech Republic.
Yrjö Kokkonen Yle Uutiset 2.11.13: "Britanniassa julkistetut, tähän saakka salassa pysyneet hallituksen dokumentit paljastavat, että maailma oli erittäin lähellä täysimittaista ydinsotaa vuonna 1983. Tapahtuma säikäytti Britannian pääministerin Margaret Thatcherin, minkä ansiosta Nato-maat alkoivat liennyttää välejä Neuvostoliiton kanssa. Asiasta kertoo brittilehti The Guardian." "Britannian hallituksen asiakirjat on saanut haltuunsa ydinaseita vastustava järjestö Nuclear Information Service (NIS). Sen mukaan ydinsota oli tuolloin paljon lähempänä kuin esimerkiksi Kuuban kriisin aikaan vuonna 1962."
MN3 is an International Network of Unions and Organizations located and acting in countries around/of the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Black Sea and Middle East with ultimate goal the transformation of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Balkans and the Middle East into a Zone free from nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction
Among the hundreds of campaigners who will be present at the blockade on Monday, 15 February, are Nobel Peace Prize laureates Jody Williams, from Vermont, USA and Máiread Corrigan-Maguire, from Belfast, Northern Ireland. [3] Also attending the blockade ar
by William C. Potter, Djuro Miljanic & Ivo Slaus Published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://www.bullatomsci.org/ March/April 2000 Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 63-70