A recent conference to review the most comprehensive nuclear weapons treaty fell flat due to ‘aggressive diplomatic’ tactics.
- Honorary Principal Fellow, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than at any point in its history.
Le dernier traité russo-américain portant sur la réduction des arsenaux nucléaires vient d’arriver à expiration. Avec quelles conséquences ?
A expiração do tratado dará um fim definitivo e alarmante à contenção nuclear entre as duas potências.
The demise of the treaty will bring a definitive and alarming end to nuclear restraint between the two nuclear powers.
All of the nine nuclear-armed nations are investing huge sums in new weapons. And the numbers of nuclear weapons “available for use” is climbing again.
The UN estimates more than 1,000 health-care workers have been killed in Palestinian territories since October 7 2023.
Mientras sigan funcionando las centrales nucleares, seremos vulnerables no sólo a accidentes graves, sino también a la militarización de estas instalaciones como está sucediendo en Ucrania.
As long as nuclear power plants continue to operate, we are frighteningly vulnerable not only to severe accidents, but also to the weaponisation of these facilities.
The nuclear-armed and dependent states have been put on notice. They know the treaty jeopardises their claimed right to continue to threaten the planet.
These caused untold health problems for Aboriginal people and Pacific Islanders who were at the highest risk of radiation
Japan’s plan is a terrible idea, but so is our government’s plan to send nuclear waste to South Australia temporarily.
Research partnerships between Australian universities, the Department of Defence and weapons manufacturers may not be ethically justifiable.
A grassroots movement with its genesis in Melbourne has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
At a time of increasing threat of nuclear war, a historic treaty to ban nuclear weapons might provide a much-needed panacea.
In early December, the nations of the world are poised to take an historic step on nuclear weapons. Yet Australia sticks out like a sore thumb among Asia-Pacific nations in arguing against change.
The West has long depended on the nuclear deterrent to quell the threat of ‘rogue’ nations like North Korea. But Pyongyang’s continued nuclear weapons program shows that global disarmament is the only answer.
Today’s nuclear arsenals are so powerful that dropping a Hiroshima-size bomb every two hours for 70 years would not exhaust their destructive capacity. The global disarmament regime is broken.
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