Launch of Nuclear Taboo: From Norm to Law
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 use or use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible” and including […]
Breakthrough at the G20 Summit: Leaders of nuclear weapon and allied states affirm the inadmissibility of nuclear weapons threat or use.
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 a major upgrade from taboo to normative law through two […]
Dear Putin: Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear bombings were illegal – not a precedent for a nuclear attack.
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 Kremlin announcing the annexation of four Ukrainian regions – Luhansk, […]
Opportunities to advance nuclear risk reduction, including no-first-use, in the wake of the ‘failed’ NPT Review Conference
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 to the NPT and to civil society organizations including NoFirstUse […]
Nuclear risks extreme says UN Secretary-General to NPT Review Conference
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. To Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The clouds that parted following the […]
International petition against any use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict – shoots past 100,000 signatories
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 central concern was that nuclear weapons should not be used […]
NoFirstUse Global interviews Mayor Akiba on his appeal: Do NOT use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict
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 Peace. In 2003, he addressed the second Preparatory Committee Meeting […]
UK and Netherlands challenged in the Human Rights Council to adopt no-first-use policies
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 Council this week by a number of civil society organisations* […]
De-escalate Russia’s nuclear threats with no-first-use declarations
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 brink of nuclear war. On February 24th, President Putin issued a […]
Russia, Ukraine and nuclear weapons
Russia, Ukraine and Nuclear Weapons: How to address rising nuclear threats – including through no-first-use annoucements, by Ambassador (ret.) Thomas Graham (USA) and General (ret.) Bernard Norlain (France). On March 7, The Hill, a top US political news-site read by the White House and more US lawmakers than any other site, published an article Russia, […]