Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Randy Rydell* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint GENEVA (IDN) – The world is filled with serious problems that must be addressed — poverty; racism; illiteracy; contagious diseases; terrorism; injustice; to name only a few. So why should we bother to focus on nuclear weapons? And why specifically should anybody [...]
Recalling Hiroshima Encounters in Times of Fukushima Crisis
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN/HIROSHIMA (IDN) – Images of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, following an unprecedented nine magnitude earthquake and resultant tsunami, inevitably evoke memories of my two encounters with Hiroshima. A gentle monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is festooned with thousands of paper cranes [...]
DISARMAMENT: Bridges Could Become Barricades
March 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW, Mar 5, 2011 (IPS) – Although the ratification of a new strategic arms reduction treaty (START) with the United States is considered a top priority for the Medvedev administration, experts are debating whether such an agreement could threaten to reduce Russian military [...]
New Vienna Organisation to Spur Disarmament
March 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jamshed Baruah IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN/VIENNA (IDN) – The Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation is a new feather in the cap for Austria, which served as a bridge between East and West under the leadership of Chancellor Bruno Kreisky in the 1970s, and was the venue [...]
Nobel Laureates Plead for International Law to Abolish Nukes
November 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – The Nobel Peace Laureates’ call on China, the United States, Egypt, Iran, Israel and Indonesia to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) without delay could not have emerged from a more appropriate venue and come at a more [...]
One Billion Reasons to Disarm the Planet
April 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Badriya Khan* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BARCELONA (IDN) – The world is over-armed; the world is over-hungry. This is not a new slogan – this is a proven fact showing that the world spends well over 1 trillion dollars a year on weapons, while more than one billion people are [...]
POLITICS: World Leaders to Meet on Nuclear Security
April 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Apr 9 (IPS) – On Apr. 12 and 13, U.S. President Barack Obama will host over 40 world leaders in Washington to develop a strategy to secure nuclear materials and prevent nuclear terrorism, following up on his announcements this week that that the U.S. would significantly [...]
POLITICS: On Nuke Disarmament, It’s Still ”You First”
October 31, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) – Is the ongoing controversy over Iran’s nuclear programme helping to advance the United Nations’ agenda on nuclear disarmament? To a number of diplomats and experts who have participated in past U.N. discussions on the spread of nuclear weapons, the [...]
DISARMAMENT: U.N. to Pursue Conventional Arms Trade Treaty
October 31, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (IPS) – The United Nations, which is pursuing a proposal for ”a world without nuclear weapons”, will soon turn its attention to another new goal in the field of disarmament: creating a legally-binding treaty on conventional arms. The proposed new treaty, which is [...]
DISARMAMENT: Toward A Nuke-Free Germany?
October 28, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY RAMESH JAURA Republished with permission from IDN-InDepthNews Service BERLIN (IDN) – The new conservative-liberal coalition government wants the United States to withdraw all nuclear weapons still deployed in Germany despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, end of the cold war and re-unification twenty years ago. Confirming the [...]
