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CTBT ratification still uncertain after 15 years of advancement in nuclear test monitoring
Natural Resources Defense Council writer Bemnet Alemayehu makes a compelling case for why the U.S. Senate should reconsider ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. CTBT ratification still uncertain after 15 years of advancement in nuclear test monitoring Bemnet Alemayehu There is still no timetable for when the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) will appear before the…
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Nuclear Weapons Madness Must Stop. Period.
By Karipbek Kuyukov The UN International Day Against Nuclear Tests falls right at the end of summer, on Aug. 29, like a reminder to us all that summer is over and it’s time to prepare for the harder seasons ahead. To some, what I am about to say will be a discovery and a warning.…
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World Marks Fifth International Day Against Nuclear Tests
Officials, activists and regular people around the world who are seeking a safer and more peaceful planet once again participated in the fifth August 29 International Day Against Nuclear Tests and its accompanying global moment of silence in memory of nuclear weapons testing survivors. “Today, the effects of nuclear weapons upon civilian populations, agriculture, livestock…
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Message From UN Secretary General on August 29 International Day Against Nuclear Tests
August 29, 2014 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon On this day in 1991, Kazakhstan closed the nuclear test site near Semipalatinsk. On that same date in 1949, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, followed by another 455 nuclear tests over succeeding decades, with a terrible effect on the local population and environment. These…
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ATOM Project Announces Events Marking International Day Against Nuclear Tests
Sixty-five years ago in the steppes of northeast Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union conducted the first of what would be 456 nuclear weapons tests. No one knew the devastation the next 40 years of nuclear testing would bring. In fact, the local townspeople often watched the mushroom clouds and it was thought that vodka would take…
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New Novel Captures the Horror of Soviet Era Nuclear Weapons Testing on the Kazakh Steppe
Uzbek author Hamid Ismailov has written a haunting novel capturing the horror that nuclear weapons testing inflicted on the people and culture of the Kazakh steppes. English translations from the former Soviet republics are as scant as the countries of central Asia are rich in history and language, and staggeringly vast across the map; Kazakhstan…
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ATOM Project Calls for a Global Moment of Silence on August 29
ASTANA, August 6 – The ATOM Project is calling for an international moment of silence during the August 29 UN International Day Against Nuclear Tests in memory of all victims of nuclear weapons testing. “We are calling for people around the world to observe 11:05 a.m. their local time as a moment of silence,” ATOM…
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ATOM Project Ambassador Karipbek Kuyukov Addresses Anti-Weapons Conference in Ankara
Honorary ATOM Project Amabssador, painter and anti-nuclear weapons activist Karipbek Kuyukov, who was born without arms and paints with his feet and mouth, called on humanity to abandon nuclear weapons during the June 21-22 international Euro Mediterranian Forum agaisnt nuclear weapons in Ankara. “I am happy to live at a time when the voice of…
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Obama: More Concered About Nukes in New York than Russia
U.S. President Barack Obama said this week that he is more concerned about a nuclear weapon going off in New York City than about the threat posed by Russia. Read the story here.
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PNND Video on Recent Washington, DC Anti-Nuclear Weapons Conference
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament has created a unique video summarizing a recent international conference in Washington, DC aimed at achieving a nuclear weapons fee world. Watch here …