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Kazakhstan and The ATOM Project mark International Day against Nuclear Tests with moment of silence, a nonproliferation award and a nuclear-weapons-free zone conference
Kazakhstan and its global nuclear nonproliferation initiative The ATOM Project marked the August 29 International Day against Nuclear Tests by urging a moment of silence in memory of nuclear weapons testing victims, by awarding the Nazarbayev Prize for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World and Global Security and by the Kazakh capital hosting a conference of nuclear-weapons-free-zone countries.…
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Bringing nuclear test ban treaty into force a ‘central pillar’ of global disarmament push, says UN chief on International Day against Nuclear Tests
The legacy of nuclear testing is “nothing but destruction,” and in a world of rising tensions, “our collective security depends” on bringing a global treaty into force that bans nuclear explosions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said. “I reiterate my call for all States that have not yet done so, to sign and ratify the [Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban…
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Nur-Sultan to host Nazarbayev Prize for Nuclear Weapons Free World award ceremony
NUR-SULTAN – Nur-Sultan will host Aug. 29 the award ceremony of the Nazarbayev Prize for a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World and Global Security. Established in 2016, the Nazarbayev Prize is awarded to prominent individuals for their contribution to nuclear disarmament and global security. “High-level foreign guests, diplomatic missions, government officials and parliament members are invited to the…
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New model agrees with old: Nuclear war between US and Russia would result in nuclear winter
A team of researchers with Rutgers University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado has found that a new climate model agrees with an older climate model—a nuclear war between the U.S and Russia would result in a nuclear winter. They have published their findings in the Journal of Geophysical Research:…
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement activists to release book about Kazakhstan’s initiatives in building nuclear weapon free world
NUR-SULTAN – Vice President of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement Sultan Kartoev and teacher at Nazarbayev Intellectual school Askhat Zhumabekov will release in December a book titled “Kazakhstan is an architect of a nuclear weapon free world,” reports The Astana Times. The release of the book will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion…
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Nuclear weapons testing victim, ATOM Project Honorary Ambassador urge August 29 moment of silence in memory weapons testing victims
NUR-SULTAN – The human toll of the nuclear weapons era is seen not only in the hundreds of thousands who died in Hiroshima or Nagasaki or in the constant threat to civilization posed by the stockpiling of these deadly weapons. It is in the ongoing suffering of untold millions affected by nuclear weapons testing. The…
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On the Nagasaki anniversary, we must work to ensure that city and its people are the last lost to nuclear weapons
NUR-SULTAN – Three days after the world’s first nuclear weapon was unleashed in combat on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, an estimated 40,000 more people died in the city of Nagasaki when the United States dropped a second bomb. Less than one second after detonation Aug. 9, 1945 at 11:02 a.m. local time, the northern…
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ATOM Project Honorary Ambassador sends message of change, hope in commemoration of Hiroshima bombing anniversary
NUR-SULTAN – Within a span of just a few moments on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, 80,000 people were killed and 90 percent of that city of Hiroshima, Japan was destroyed. It was just after 8:15 in the morning and the United States had just dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb on the civilians…
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MFA of Kazakhstan comments on U.S. withdrawal from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan issued a statement on withdrawal of the U.S. from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan expresses its regrets over the decision of the United States of America to withdraw its participation in the Treaty…
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INF nuclear treaty: US pulls out of Cold War-era pact with Russia
The US has formally withdrawn from a key nuclear treaty with Russia, raising fears of a new arms race. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. It banned missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 km (310-3,400 miles). But earlier this year…