Áine Beattie, 1st March 2025. The Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will convene from 3 to 7 March 2025, with Ambassador Akan Rakhmetullin of Kazakhstan presiding. Discussions will focus on advancing the Treaty’s implementation and fostering multilateral cooperation for nuclear disarmament. There is a strong […]
This editorial piece questions the theory of “deterrence”, recognises the critical nature of the current threat of nuclear war and notes the significance of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/27/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-essential-to-prevent-the-total-devastation-of-nuclear-war?fbclid=IwY2xjawHeco9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWImXC577kmH7ti6lGP1Ybu_FSq5H86OWkXKujBM-9MDcBqmn1VgwkW4VA_aem_Z8ZDV13-IYLtR4BBDfPdSw
“It is in precisely all these areas that the millions committed to commercially volatile military infrastructure should be spent if the Government is serious about addressing depopulation in Scotland’s rural areas. It seems that the ambitions of the military industries, yet again, are winning out over the urgent infrastructural needs of Scots across the country.” […]
In a stirring lecture delivered in Oslo today, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Nihon Hidankyo called on all governments to take their stories as a call to action- and to immediately eliminate any activities that give nuclear weapons legitimacy. “Let us work together for a human society, in a world free of nuclear weapons and of […]
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/12/b4023c77da8c-focus-a-bomb-survivors-nobel-prize-win-highlights-receding-nuke-taboo.html
A new film raises questions about the shattering consequences of Britain’s race to become a global nuclear power https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/mediapacks/britains-nuclear-bomb-scandal-our-story
https://www.icanw.org/commentary_nuclearweapons_israel_gaza
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) partners from Scotland are absolutely delighted to see that Nihon Hidankyo, the group made up of survivors of the 1945 attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has deservedly won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its powerful work towards the abolition of nuclear weapons. https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24651351.happened-met-nobel-prize-winners-nihon-hidankyo/
“Describe the strategic, threat, and operational context for UK Defence 2024- 2050” This is the first question in the online survey and in itself it could represent the raw data for a doctoral study on conventional security thinking. The full survey runs on for another 700 words, all of it set within predictably restricted parameters. […]
Now Online – The Excellent Science Expo on Nuclear Weapons, Risks and Humanitarian Impacts “Experts agreed there is no adequate response capacity to provide immediate and meaningful medical treatment to address the survivors’ needs in case of detonation of nuclear weapons.”
