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2010
NPT Review Conference
The 2010 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference
will convene from 3-28 May 2010 in New York. Check out these
RCW resources:
• Calendar
of Events
• Information
for NGOs
• and more
Conference
on Disarmament 2010
The CD will begin its 2010 session in Geneva on 18 January.
RCW will post all statements,
papers,
and press
releases from the Conference and will cover all plenary
meetings with the CD
Report - subscribe
now! Also stayed tuned for an updated version of RCW's
Guide to the CD.
Recent
Writing, Speaking, and Analysis from RCW
• “Reaching
Critical Will for Disarmament,” Stockholm, 8 November
2009
• “Accomplishments
and remaining tasks: Lessons from the NPT’s 13 Steps
and the Blix Commission,” Stockholm, 8 November
2009
• “Operationalising
the vision of a nuclear weapon free world,” 23 October
2009
Critical
Issues
Background information and up-to-date news on a wide variety
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• Gender
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and North
Korea’s nuclear programmes;
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• military
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• much
more.
Nuclear
Disorder or Cooperative Security?
A civil society analysis of the current disarmament regime
and response to the WMD Commission Report released by the
Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy, Western
States Legal Foundation, and Reaching Critical Will of
WILPF. Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security can
now be fully accessed online
in PDF format.
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- The Obama administration's FY2011 budget request calls
for increased nuclear weapon spending.
See the RCW
blog for analysis. Also read Greg Mello's article on
"Obama's
disarmament paradox" and Darwin BondGraham et al's
article
on the four horsemen, which provide context for this
seemingly surprising turn of events.
- The Conference on Disarmament opened its 2010 session
on 19 January
Read (and subscribe
to) Reaching Critical Will's CD
Report for details. Find all statements
and other
information online.
- Happy new year to all friends and colleagues!
The time has never been riper to push for nuclear disarmament.
New opportunities for concrete action on this issue have
been created by the crises we collectively face: climate,
energy, economy, food, water, poverty, education, housing,
justice. It is up to us to not just connect the dots and
link the issues but to push forward an agenda for change.
- President
Obama's Nuclear "Surge"
by Darwin BondGraham
The Obama administration released its budget for FY 2011
today. The centerpiece of the budget's National Nuclear
Security Administration section is a "surge."
- More
spending for more disarmament?
by Ray Acheson
In a third op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, the “four
horsemen”—Schultz, Perry, Kissinger, and Nunn
(SPKN)—advocate for increased spending on nuclear
weapons. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.
- Nuclear
Newspeak
by Darwin BondGraham
"Orwellian" was a popular description of the Bush
administration's tendency to name policies in ways diametrically
opposite to their results. It seems that the Obama White
House subscribes to a similar political philosophy - say
one thing, do the other.
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