Category:Nuclear Nonproliferation

Report from the Los Alamos Study Group (LASG)

May 9, 2018

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Nuclear Nonproliferation

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Green Politics / Nuclear Weapons

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Nuclear Weapons Proliferation v. Nonproliferation

Historic Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Opens for Signature at United Nations

Via LASG / Treaty comprehensively bans nuclear weapons research, possession, use, deterrence, and all forms of assistance in these prohibited acts

Around 45 states expected to sign by September 20: Treaty 'entry into force' follows 50th ratification

July 2017

Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Adopted

July 7, 2017 / UN conference adopts treaty banning nuclear weapons

● http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_7Jul2017.html

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Draft Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons / July 5

http://www.undocs.org/en/a/conf.229/2017/L.3/Rev.1

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Trinity_monument_m.jpg

https://www.apnews.com/6732780e340f4fc785c9c4ab846b2f65/First-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-expected-to-be-adopted

http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_5July2017.html

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To Ban -- or Not To Ban

June 2017

Status of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Negotiations

For many years the editor of Strategic Demands has continued an association with the Los Alamos Study Group/LASG. Their team of scientists and public/civil representatives continues to address critical issues involving US nuclear weapons development. Currently at the UN, the LASG is reporting on the historic "Convention to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons".

Read about this historic UN nuclear disarmament conference via Strategic Demands.

March 2017

World Nations Gather in Unprecedented Meeting to Ban Nuclear Weapons

http://www.lasg.org/BAN/BAN_open.html

http://www.icanw.org/campaign-news/report-on-the-march-negotiations/ -- http://reachingcriticalwill.org/news/latest-news/11400-un-concludes-productive-first-week-of-nuclear-weapon-ban-treaty-negotiations

http://reachingcriticalwill.org/news/latest-news/11763-npt-preparatory-committee-concludes

● Negotiating a global nuclear ban treaty: Nuclear-armed states vs the UN

https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/rebecca-johnson/negotiating-global-nuclear-ban-treaty-nuclear-armed-states-versus-un

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December 2016

In Historic Vote, UN General Assembly Mandates 2017 Negotiations to Ban Research, Development, Testing, Stockpiling, Use of Nuclear Weapons

“Most significant nuclear disarmament development since Cold War”

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October 27, 2016

The United Nations today adopted a landmark resolution to launch negotiations in 2017 on a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. This historic decision heralds an end to two decades of paralysis in multilateral nuclear disarmament efforts.

At a meeting of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, which deals with disarmament and international security matters, 123 nations voted in favour of the resolution, with 38 against and 16 abstaining.

The resolution will set up a UN conference beginning in March next year, open to all member states, to negotiate a “legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination”. The negotiations will continue in June and July.

The ‘No’ votes came from the nuclear weapons states, and U.S. allies in NATO, plus Japan, South Korea and Australia, which have treaty ties to the U.S., and consider themselves to be under the protection of the ‘U.S. nuclear umbrella.’

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Negotiating a global nuclear ban treaty: nuclear-armed states vs the UN

● https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/rebecca-johnson/negotiating-global-nuclear-ban-treaty-nuclear-armed-states-versus-un

● http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Nonproliferation