The latest session of the Conference on Disarmament started in Geneva on 24th January. The Conference is the world’s only multilateral disarmament negotiating forum. It was established in 1979 and focuses on nuclear disarmament, prevention of nuclear war and prevention of an arms race in outer space. It has been mired in controversy, mostly because of differences between the nuclear and non-nuclear states.
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Indonesia has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, increasing the number of states that have ratified to 156. Nuclear states China and the US are amongst those whose governments have still not ratified the treaty, though both have signed it.
Cooperative Threat Reduction
Twenty years ago last December, US Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar introduced legislation to help Russia dismantle its nuclear arsenal after the end of the Cold War. The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program has: • deactivated 7,527 strategic nuclear warheads; • destroyed 2,331 missiles; …
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Russia has asked for Britain's help in resolving the impasse in talks over the proposed European nuclear defence shield, with a warning that retaliatory "military steps" will be taken if the US and Na…
Scotland
The Church Cardinal Keith O’Brien, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has led a meeting of international church leaders to discuss plans to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
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UK Nuclear Weapons
Japan And The Aftermath Of Fukishima
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CND campaigns non-violently to rid the world of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and to create genuine security for future generations.
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