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MINUTES OF ABOLITION 2000 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2010
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REPORT ON THE MORNING NGO ABOLITION CAUCUS
by Alice Slater
The NGO Abolition Morning Caucus met every day during the four week Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference starting on Tuesday, May 4th straight through to the last day of the UN meeting on [...]

Disarmament Only Verbal by Reiner Braun

Non-proliferation Treaty Conference in New York: The way to a nuclear
weapons-free world is still not open.  Obama allows warheads to be produced. NATO modernizes its arsenal.
By Reiner Braun

Shifting the Paradigm: Time to Replace Article IV of the Non-Proliferation Treaty with Universal Membership in the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

by Alice Slater
While the world applauds the growing recognition that the abolition of nuclear weapons seems to be an idea whose time has finally  come—from the calls by rusty cold warriors and former statesmen and generals to eliminate nuclear weapons—to the recent modest START negotiated by President Obama and Medvedev to cut nuclear arsenals under [...]

Civil Society, Disarmament and the Need for New Beginnings

Written by Andrew Lichterman
Original article: Disarmament Times
In May, disarmament organizations will assemble alongside government delegations meeting for the 2010 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference. Coming together in side events between attempts to pursue and persuade diplomats has become a familiar practice among the world’s nongovernmental organizations, and should provide an opportunity to reflect and to [...]

NATO Goes Anti-Nuclear?

Support for nuclear disarmament has spread to the heart of the Atlantic alliance and beyond.
By Alice Slater, March 9, 2010
Original article at www.fpif.org
President Obama’s call for a nuclear-weapons-free world in Prague last April unleashed a great outpouring of support from international allies and grassroots activists demanding a process to actually eliminate nuclear weapons. One recent [...]

IPFM launches new blog tracking stocks, production and use of nuclear weapon materials around the world

The International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) has launched its
new blog, “Fissile Material” http://www.fissilematerials.org/blog
providing news and analysis of military and civilian stockpiles of
highly enriched uranium and plutonium, the key nuclear weapon
materials.

How US Missile Defense Plans Sabotaged Nuclear Disarmament Talks With Russia

Original Article: Counterpunch, July 14th, 2009
By ALICE SLATER
Although Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged to work for a nuclear weapons free world this spring, they failed to take meaningful steps at their July summit to put the world on the proper path to nuclear abolition. Disappointingly, they only agreed to minor cuts in [...]

Obama and Medvedev on Nukes

Alice Slater | April 7, 2009
Editor: John Feffer
Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org
Committing the United States and Russia “to achieving a nuclear free world,” Presidents Obama and Medvedev issued a joint statement breathtaking in its positive tone. It marks an astonishing shift from the hostile policies of the Bush and Clinton administrations and offers new hope to [...]

AT LAST! France recognises her responsibility to the military and civilian victims of her nuclear tests

Publication date : 25 March 2009
The veterans of France’s nuclear testing, after years of futile approaches to military authorities and legal tribunals, all systematically dismissed or (if successful) referred to appeal by the ministry, have now won an apparently decisive victory.

ENFIN ! La France reconnaît sa responsabilité envers les victimes militaires et civiles de ses essais nucléaires

Mise en ligne le : 24 mars 2009
Après des années de vaines démarches auprès de l’administration militaire et d’actions devant les tribunaux, systématiquement déboutées ou renvoyées en appel par le ministère lorsqu’elles étaient gagnantes, les vétérans des essais nucléaires français viennent de remporter une victoire apparemment décisive.