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Re-examining the 1996 ICJ Advisory Opinion: Concerning the Legality of Nuclear Weapons

Cadmus, 2012
The primary objections raised against total elimination of nuclear weapons are built around a few arguments mostly of non-technical nature.Nuclear weapons and the strategies for their use have resulted in the establishment of a vicious circle within ...
Jasjit Singh
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Kazakhstan’s Irreversible Disarmament

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Kazakhstan presents an interesting and important real-life case of disarmament irreversibility. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Kazakhstan inherited the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world – more than a thousand nuclear warheads, dozens of heavy
Togzhan Kassenova
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The potential stigmatizing effect of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The Nonproliferation Review, 2018
On July 7, 2017, seventy-two years after the start of the nuclear era, 122 states concluded the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW, or “ban treaty”).
Tom Sauer, Mathias Reveraert
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How Useful Are Nuclear Weapons in Practice? Case-Study: The War in Ukraine

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The debate about nuclear weapons has been based on abstract notions. The war in Ukraine is a fascinating case-study for testing these decades-old abstract theories.
Tom Sauer
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Nuclear Weapons Don’t Belong on Our Planet

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
In January 2024, the newly appointed Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Melissa Parke, visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the first time, where she met with atomic bomb survivors (hibakusha), officials ...
Melissa Parke
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Fit for Purpose: An Evolutionary Strategy for the Implementation and Verification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2019
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons requires States Parties to designate a “competent international authority or authorities” for negotiating and verifying the irreversible elimination of nuclear-weapons programs.
Tamara Patton, Sébastien Philippe, Z. Mian   +2 more
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Beyond Arms Control: Cooperative Nuclear Weapons Reductions – A New Paradigm to Roll Back Nuclear Weapons and Increase Security and Stability

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020
Arms control treaties have served admirably to control and limit nuclear weapons for several decades. The provisions and limits, however, have proven to be inflexible, often limited in scope to specific systems and countries, and difficult and time ...
William M. Moon
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Tactical nuclear weapons, 2019

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2019
The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation of American Scientists, and Matt Korda, a research associate with the project.
Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda
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The Limits of Anti-Nuclear Critique in Pakistan

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Pakistan has a long history of social movements, some of which have challenged the military’s domination. However, apart from a short period after 1998 nuclear weapon tests by India and Pakistan, there has been limited opposition to nuclear weapons owned
Sadia Tasleem, M. V. Ramana
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Foreword

The Thinker
Africa’s role in nuclear debates and in opposing nuclear weapons is at once consequential and overlooked. Since the 1996 Treaty of Pelindaba, the African continent has been a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (NWFZ), providing a powerful example of opposition ...
Anna-Mart van Wyk, Luc-André Brunet, Eirini Karamouzi   +2 more
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