Trump's bellicose statements about North Korea and the recent false missile alert in Hawaii have raised global alarm over nuclear war. Now, in an unprecedented step, a draft of the new U.S. Nuclear Posture calls for authorizing nuclear weapons use even in response to a non-military attack
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Austria on Tuesday called for banning nuclear weapons because of their catastrophic humanitarian effects, an initiative it said now has the backing of 159 countries.
By Alexandra Brzozowski | EURACTIV.com 17 jan. 2020
It's one of Belgium's worst kept secrets. Lawmakers on Thursday (16 January) narrowly rejected a resolution asking for the removal of US nuclear weapons stationed in the country and joining the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Reaching Critical Will has published a conference report for the meeting hosted by the government of Norway on 4-5 March 2013 on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. Only two of the nuclear possessing states, India and Pakistan, attended the meeting. The other countries with nuclear weapons-China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, France, Israel, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States-did not participate. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council boycotted the meeting, saying that the conference would "divert discussion and focus" away from other fora. The same day as the conference was held, the UK ambassador to the CD said that "all efforts should be focused on getting the CD back to work" and the Russian ambassador argued that the Oslo conference might "pull apart the CD agenda". China's ambassador warned that discussions external to the CD or UN system would undermine existing processes, while the US ambassador emphasised the need for a "practical, step-by-step approach to disarmament."
via International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) 28 Sept
September 28, 2016
A group of governments have submitted a draft UN General Assembly resolution to start negotiations on a treaty banning nuclear weapons. The document was circulated on Wednesday by its lead sponsors Austria, Mexico, South Africa, Ireland, Brazil and Nigeria and follows on from the recommendation of a UN Working Group, at which the overwhelming majority of states supported the call for ban treaty negotiations in 2017.
... The voting on the resolution will take place at the end of October or early November.
Date: 2013/10/21 Today at 17:20 in New York, Disarmament Ambassador Dell Higgie from New Zealand delivered the following statement on behalf of 124 states in the UN General Assembly's First Committee. I'd like to congratulate all of you who have reached out to governments, in capitals and in New York, with an extraordinarily good result. You've done an amazing job!
September 26th is the International Day for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and called on world leaders gathered at the UN to join the Treaty on the...
Full statement by Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN, and by Ray Acheson, Director of Reaching Critical Will (ICAN partner organisation), and member of ICAN’s steering group: