On August 9, the 76th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, 5 United States organizations and 21 United States nuclear weapons policy experts sent a letter to Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and leaders of the main Japanese political parties, calling on Japan not
On July 28, senior officials and diplomats from the United States and Russia held the first meeting in Geneva for the ‘integrated bilateral Strategic Stability Dialogue’ which was agreed by Presidents Biden and Putin at their Summit Meeting on June 16. Presidents Biden and Putin
Members of the US Congress Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group sent a joint letter to President Biden on July 22 calling on the President to ensure that the Nuclear Posture Review which is currently being undertaken by the Department of Defence (DoD), establish
In a video meeting held on Monday June 28, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin extended the China/Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation, and reaffirmed a mutual commitment in the Treaty not to use nuclear weapons first against each other, nor to target each other’s strategic nuclear missiles.
At their Summit Meeting in Geneva on June 16, President’s Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin adopted a U.S.-Russia Presidential Joint Statement on Strategic Stability in which they reaffirmed ‘the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought’ and announced that
By Carlo Trezza, Member of the European Leadership Network.* For decades the issue of a commitment by nuclear armed states not to be first users of nuclear weapons in a conflict has been a subject of discussion in international fora dealing with security and arms
In an Open Letter released today, US President Joseph Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are urged to use the opportunity of their June 16 Summit in Switzerland to reduce tensions between the two countries and lower the risks of a nuclear exchange by making
Presentation by Commander Robert Forsyth RN (Ret’d) to the international webinar: “Nuclear Risk Reduction and Disarmament: Is it time for no-first-use policies in the USA and globally?”, April 29, 2021
Contribution to the webinar: “Nuclear Risk Reduction and Disarmament: Is it time for no-first-use policies in the USA and globally?” by Uta Zapf, April 29, 2021
Presentation by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans, Chair, Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN), to GCSP/PNND International Webinar on “Is it Time for No First Use Policies in the USA and Globally?”, 29 April 2021