Nuclear Disarmament
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This Week @UN: Nuke treaty to the rescue; UN candidate’s 3 Latin backers; deadbeat donors; call DT!! Plus: Rafah crossing opens; Norwegian diplos & Epstein; Israeli threats in Lebanon; no oil for Cuba; Nigeria massacre. Stay abreast in real time: …
- Arthur Bassas
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We have entered 2026 with the highest threat ever from nuclear weapons, and we are on the cusp of the expiration of the last remaining arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, the New START treaty, removing the …
As Russia assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for October, some of its top diplomats recently praised United States President Trump while scorning Moscow’s European neighbors. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s permanent representative …
- Damilola Banjo
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky devoted most of his speech at the 80th General Assembly high-level session to appeal for new war technology to defend his country better as its skylines are being bombarded by Russia regularly with cheap, one-way drones …
- Damilola Banjo
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When the painstakingly negotiated Iran deal to limit the scope of the country’s nuclear program against sanctions relief was signed in Vienna on July 14, 2015, by Iran and the five permanent member of the United Nations Security Council as …
This Week @UN: Saving UNRWA; free speech/hate speech; Waltz weaponizes US aid; Pakistan’s push for Kashmir vote. Plus: SDG gains/laggards; big-tech protests @UN; Syria infighting; Israel bans swimming in Gaza; Colombia’s rocky peace; nukes’ effects. Stay on top of the …
- Arthur Bassas
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On June 21, the United States joined Israel’s unprovoked war against Iran by attacking at least three of its nuclear sites –Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan. The Israeli and US attacks are presumptively unlawful and constitute war crimes. Less than two …
This Week @UN: Countering authoritarianism; Denmark’s push for peace; anti-nukers; nuke-power fallacies; MAGA hits the UN. Plus: Gaza; Arab summit; Syria; Central African Republic; Afghanistan; International Women’s Day. We’re on Blue Sky, Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn (To send …
- Arthur Bassas
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The total number of nuclear weapons around the world has decreased considerably in comparison with the global arsenals after the end of the Cold War. But scientists say there are still enough nukes to cause devastating destruction to the planet …
- Damilola Banjo
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Melissa Parke is a soft-spoken anti-nukes activist from Australia who advocates for the elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide. Her bullhorn is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a Geneva-based civil society group that she leads in the …
- Arshi Qureshi
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Racism at the UN; Sudanese civilian deaths; nuclear war effects; Israel’s genocidal intent. Plus: North Korea; Ukraine; UNRWA; Lebanon; polio/Gaza. Hundreds of readers donate to our NewsMatch campaign every year, and today we begin the …
- Arthur Bassas
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The United Nations General Assembly is preparing to vote this week on whether to mandate a new UN scientific study on the effects of nuclear war, something that hasn’t been done by the organization since the 1980s. [Update, Nov. 1: …
Every year, the leaders of the G20, the largest 20 economies of the globe, meet on a rotating schedule in a major city or capital. This November, Brazil will host the main leaders summit, so it arranged all the side …
The far-right and right-wing populists have quickly gained ground in the West, securing historic wins in elections in France, Portugal, the European Union and the United Kingdom in the last months. Meanwhile, hard-right forces are already in power in Italy, …
With the Summit of the Future now a mere three months away, opinions about its chances to produce meaningful change for the United Nations if not the world are extremely mixed. The promised documents related to the summit — the …
