Launch of Nuclear Taboo: From Norm to Law, A Declaration of Public Conscience. On November 17, 2022, the G20 Leaders meeting in Bali (including leaders or foreign ministers of China, France, India, Russia, UK and USA) surprised the world by agreeing that “The threat of
NoFirstUse Global releases follow-up briefing paper: Nuclear weapons non-use BREAKTHROUGH! From taboo since 1945, to normative law as of 2022. 2022 has witnessed many setbacks in the field of nuclear disarmament, but there is one important exception. The status of nuclear weapon use has received
NoFirstUse Global sends a letter to President Putin and the Russian people countering Putin’s claim that the United States established a precedent for nuclear attack through their use of nuclear weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. On September 30, in his speech in the
On Friday August 26, after four weeks of deliberations, the 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which was held at the United Nations in New York, concluded with no final agreement. This was of course a disappointment to many of the States Parties
NoFirstUse Global Open Letter to be presented to the NPT Review Conference today The 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) opened on Monday August 1 with a stark warning from UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “From the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula.
On March 2nd, Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima and President of Mayors for Peace from 1999 to 2011, launched a petition on the Change.org website addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin and entitled “Do NOT use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict – Message from Japan.” The
On April 20, Russia test-fired a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile, accompanied by President Putin boasting that the ICBM had no equivalents anywhere in the world and would make adversaries “think twice” before making threats against Russia.* This is just the latest of a number of
Note: The Appeal to Putin and other leaders: Do NOT use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict, has over 96,000 endorsements. Click here to add your endorsement. Introduction: Tadatoshi Akiba became Mayor of Hiroshima in 1999. As such, he also served as President of Mayors for
The UK and the Netherlands have been challenged in the UN Human Rights Council to adopt no-first-use policies as one of the measures required to adhere to international human rights law applicable to nuclear weapons. The challenges are in submissions made to the Human Rights
Statement by NoFirstUse Global* Russia’s threats to potentially use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict should be de-escalated, and nuclear war prevented, through no-first-use declarations by the USA and NATO, plus pressure on Russia to also adopt such a policy and step back from the