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Open split between the US and Russia overshadows NPT review conference

By Bob Rigg* The opening statement by the Deputy Head of the Russian delegation to the NPT review conference was amended and amplified at the last minute in response to the earlier statement by John Kerry on behalf of the…

Will the NPT sink or swim?

“We were waist deep in the Big Muddy. The big fool said to push on.” — Pete Seeger The NPT member states have to choose between two irreconcilable narratives, and the success of the 2015 Review Conference depends upon their…

Nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert must end!

Switzerland, New Zealand, Sweden and Global Zero lead global initiative to stand down nuclear forces. Basel Peace Office Director Alyn Ware runs 1800 Prague Steps to draw attention to nuclear weapons risks. As world leaders descended on the United Nations…

The nuclear danger today: Existing nuclear arsenals are the greatest nuclear threat

On Friday 1st of May, civil society organisations were given the opportunity to make presentations to diplomats at the NPT review conference at the UN in New York.  Pressenza was one of dozens of organisations around the world that endorsed…

Statement by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons at the NPT review conference

The humanitarian initiative began here five years ago, when the NPT Review Conference expressed its deep concern at the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. Since then, a fundamental shift has been under way. Concerns about the impact of nuclear…

NPT review conference underway in New York. Don’t get excited: nuclear disarmament is not on the horizon

The 5-yearly cycle of reviewing the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty got underway last week at the United Nations in New York but not before civil society organisations had organised hundreds of events around the world and in the Big Apple, under…

NPT Review Conference circus begins

By Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group, USA Beginning Monday, May April 27 and lasting through May 22, the United Nations headquarters in New York will host the ninth five-year Review Conference (RevCon) of the Parties to the…

Nuclear abolition wave circles the world!

As governments gather in New York for the four-week-long nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, a wave of nuclear abolition activities is swinging around the world. ‘Starting at a large peace rally in New York just after midday on Sunday…

Will the NPT face the facts?

By John Loretz of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War When the 2015 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) opens in New York next week, the 190 member states will have to…

Wave goodbye to nuclear weapons

Governments will meet at the United Nations over four weeks in April-May 2015 for the five-yearly review of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Civil society is calling on governments to end the threat of nuclear weapons by negotiating for their…

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