Last week, President Trump announced that 'North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States' or 'they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.' The announcement sent diplomatic shock-waves around the world, and elevated the tensions...

Update from the Abolition 2000 Working Group on the 2018 UN High-Level Conference. The United Nations has decided to hold a High Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament in 2018 in order to enhance progress toward the achievement of a nuclear weapons convention – a...

Image: The Thinkers Lodge in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. Venue for the early Pugwash Conferences. A Canadian Pugwash conference, Canada’s Contribution to Global Security, on July 24 urged the Government of Canada to sign the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons...

On July 7, 2017, the United Nations adopted a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons following negotiations by over 120 countries on the draft treaty during March, June and July. The treaty will be open for signature on September 20 and will enter-into-force...

Young activists from around the world met at the United Nations in New York on June 20, 2017 to discuss plans to engage youth in key nuclear disarmament initiatives. The meeting, hosted by the Abolition 2000 Youth Working Group, which was held during the historic...