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  • ATOM Project Passes 300,000 Signatures on Global Anti-Nuclear Weapons Petition

    ASTANA – As the world and Kazakhstan mark the 25th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site on August 29, The ATOM Project – a global anti-nuclear weapons initiative – has surpassed 300,000 signatures to tell world leaders the global population is united in its call for a nuclear-weapons-free world. “We have…

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  • Moment of Silence Urged for August 29 to Honor All Victims of Nuclear Tests

    ASTANA – As the world and Kazakhstan mark the 25th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site on August 29, The ATOM Project is calling for a moment of silence on that day to honor all victims of nuclear weapons testing. Kazakhstan suffered more than 450 Soviet nuclear weapons tests at the…

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  • Ministerial Meeting in Vienna Seeks Progress on Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

    VIENNA – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrissov took part in a ministerial meeting commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) during his visit to Vienna June 13, and discussed new ways to move nuclear nonproliferation processes forward. Idrissov also looked to past successes, noting that the meeting fell during…

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  • 25th Anniversary of Nuclear Test Site Closure to Be Marked with Global Nuclear Disarmament Conference

    ASTANA, June 6, 2016 – The Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) will present on Aug. 28-29 in Astana the conference “Building a Nuclear Weapon-Free World.” The conference will gather leading parliamentarians, prominent politicians,…

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  • ATOM Project Hon. Ambassador, Artist and Anti-Nuclear Weapons Activist Karipbek Kuyukov Holds First Astana Exhibition

    The ATOM Project Honorary Ambassador, artist and anti-nuclear weapons activist Karipbek Kuyukov will hold his first exhibition in Astana for ten days beginning May 21. The exhibition will run for 10 days at the National Academic Library of Kazakhstan and will be dedicated to the creative drive and the overcoming of human difficulties. Kuyukov was…

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  • Kazakhstan calls for nuclear free world by 2045

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Kazakhstan is seeking to encourage a wide ranging discussion of the role of religion in fighting extremism and terrorism and it is calling for a nuclear free world by 2045, the 100th anniversary of the United Nations, as the Central Asian nation makes its first bid for a seat on the…

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  • Kazakhstan: An exemplary non-nuclear-weapon state

    On April 5, 2009 in the Czech capital of Prague US President Barack Obama declared to the world “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons”. This unprecedented speech by an American head of state sparked a wave of enthusiasm among peoples and governments that had long urged the…

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  • Harvard researcher warns ISIS may be on the brink of using nuclear weapons.

    The possibility of a nuclear-armed ISIS may not be as far-off as many experts suggest, a Harvard researcher has warned. In a recent report for Project on Managing the Atom from Harvard’s Belfer Center, Matthew Bunn explains how the threat of nuclear terrorism is rising as extremist groups continue to evolve. While there has not…

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  • More than Quarter Million People Sign ATOM Project Petition аgainst Nuclear Weapons

    As dozens of world leaders, the planet’s nuclear weapons powers and others concerned about global nuclear security gather in Washington, DC for the March 31-April 1 Nuclear Security Summit, The ATOM Project, a global initiative to permanently end nuclear weapons testing and eliminate nuclear arsenals, has gathered more than 250,000 signatures from around the globe…

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  • Time to Reconsider the Test Ban Treaty

    For nearly a quarter-century, a worldwide ban on nuclear explosive testing has been a key part of a comprehensive, effective U.S. nuclear nonproliferation and risk reduction strategy. Following the end of Russian nuclear testing in 1990 and the last U.S. nuclear blast in 1992, France and China were pressured to follow suit, the Comprehensive Nuclear…

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