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TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD 

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Anna Ikeda. Credit: Soka University of America Photography

G7 Hiroshima Summit: Opportunity to Rethink National Security

Adopting a No First Use Policy is Equally Important

Viewpoint by Anna Ikeda*

NEW YORK, 10 April 2023 (IDN) — The current war in Ukraine has shown that nuclear deterrence is deeply flawed. It relies on the assumption of “rational actors” in power and credibility of threats, which we know are far from reality, especially in times of conflicts.

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The Toxic Legacy of the Nuclear Age

By Alice Slater*

This article was published in the Spring 2023 Edition of Peace Planet News and is being republished with the author's permission.

NEW YORK, 5 April 2023 (IDN) — Recent alarming reports state that the UK is prepared to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium ammunition in the ongoing slaughter in Ukraine. These lethally toxic carcinogens are known to cause illness and death, not only for the victims of war but for the perpetrators as well. Victims who have suffered genetic damage pass it on to their children, who are often born with terrible malformations and illnesses.

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Image source: UPNORTH.EU

Putin’s Nuclear Sabre-Rattling in Belarus Triggers a WW III Warning

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, 4 April 2023 (IDN) — As Russian nuclear threats keep escalating following the invasion of Ukraine 14 months ago, President Vladimir Putin issued a new warning on March 26: that he plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a close political, economic and military ally of Moscow. [P 02]  | GERMAN | JAPANESE | RUSSIAN

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Photo: WION News | A limited-scale exchange between such nations as India and Pakistan could have catastrophic consequences for global food supplies and trigger mass death worldwide.

Whom Should We Blame for A Nuclear War Between India and Pakistan?

By Jonathan Power*

LUND, Sweden, 4 April 2023 (IDN) — If nuclear war does break out between India and Pakistan, they will only have themselves to blame. Since the early 1970s, they have been walking along the unmarked path that leads to nuclear holocaust and enough people both within and without, have told them how to turn back. Even today if Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were as serious as they say they are about avoiding nuclear war, they could sit down for two hours and sort the whole thing out. It is not that complicated.

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Rorry Daniels, Managing Director, Asia Society Policy Institute, giving a presentation at a session titled "Controlling Nuclear Weapons". (from left to right): Nobuyasu Abe, Former Director, Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation; Rorry Daniels; Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute; Audrey Kitagawa, President, IAMC; and Nikolas Emmanual, Professor, Soka University (Chair). Anna Ikeda, SGI Representative to the UN and Mitsuru Kurosawa, Professor Emeritus Osaka University, participated in the session online. Photo: Katsuhiro Asagiri, Multimedia Director of IDN-INPS.

Japan Urged to Push Nuclear Disarmament Principle at G7 Hiroshima Summit

By Kalinga Seneviratne

SYDNEY | TOKYO, 3 April 2023 (IDN) — Addressing a live-streamed conference held at Soka University in Tokyo on 29 March in preparation for the G7 summit in May, which Japan hosts, Takashi Ariyoshi, Deputy Secretary General of the G7 Hiroshima Summit Secretariat said that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had put high priority to include nuclear disarmament in the agenda of the summit. [P 01] ARABIC | JAPANESE | NORWEGIAN | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH

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A new film, "The MOVEMENT and the 'MADMAN'" shows how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969—the largest USA had ever seen—caused President Nixon to cancel what he called his “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the US war in Vietnam, including his threats to use nuclear weapons.

We Don’t Have to Choose Between Nuclear Madmen

By Norman Solomon*

SAN FRANCISCO, 28 March 2023 (IDN) — The announcement by Vladimir Putin over the weekend that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus marked a further escalation of potentially cataclysmic tensions over the war in neighbouring Ukraine. As the Associated Press reported, “Putin said the move was triggered by Britain’s decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armour-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium.”

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 Left to right: Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak during the AUKUS announcement at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego on March 18. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

A Tripartite Deal That Could Trigger Proliferation of Nuclear Submarines

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, 22 March 2023 (IDN) —The tripartite deal between the UK and the US to provide nuclear submarines (SSNs) to Australia—announced March 13—is threatening to have repercussions worldwide

A joint statement by the three countries (AUKUS) described it as a trilaterally-developed submarine based on the UK’s next-generation design that incorporates technology from all three nations, including cutting-edge U.S. submarine technologies. [P 33] JAPANESE | KOREAN | THAI

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Wang Yi (center), a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, with representatives from Saudi Arabia and Iran in Beijing. [Photo by Wang Jing / China Daily]

Will Iran & Saudi Arabia Join Israel and Get the Bomb?

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, 15 March 2023 (IDN) — Saudi Arabia and Iran— two archrivals in the Middle East who severed links seven years ago—re-established diplomatic, political and economic relations last week (10 March) in a historic deal brokered by China, one of the world’s major nuclear powers.

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President Joe Biden meets with Chinese Communist Party General Secretary X

It's High Time the US Stopped Threatening China

By John Scales Avery*

COPENHAGEN, 15 March 2023 (IDN) — It appears that the military-industrial complex has complete control of the government of the United States, which recently voted to give the Pentagon roughly a trillion dollars of the taxpayer's money. This was done by cutting back on social programs which would have helped poor working families.

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 This photo, provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says is a cruise missile the country launched from a submarine.(AP: Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service)

Nuclear Tensions Remain High on Korean Peninsulaf

By ICAN

BERLIN, 14 March 2023 (IDN) — Nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula have remained high in the early months of 2023 with North Korea continuing missile tests and the United States and South Korea mounting joint military exercises, including one practicing how to respond to a nuclear attack and others involving nuclear-capable American aircraft.

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