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Reviving the Spirit of the Steppe: Kazakhstan Has Hosted the 5th World Nomad Games
In a vibrant display of culture and tradition, Kazakhstan recently hosted the 5th World Nomad Games in Astana, celebrating the enduring spirit of nomadic heritage against a backdrop of modernity ...
Guterres Congratulates Nihon Hidankyo For Nobel Prize For Efforts To Rid Humanity of Nuclear Weapons
The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres congratulated grassroots Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. “The atomic bomb survivors from...
Playing Nuclear Games: Tickling the Tail of the Promethean Nuclear Fire Dragon
In recent years, the rhetoric, strategy and practice of nuclear deterrence has grown riskier, more urgent, more dangerous, less stable, and increasingly in the hands of deficient leaders and poli...
A Growing New Battle: Nuclear Weapons vs Conventional Arms
The warnings from the United Nations and from anti-nuclear activists are increasingly ominous: the world is closer to a nuclear war—by design or by accident—more than ever before. The current...
“Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts
Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a...
Nuclear Annihilation Threatened by Revival of 20h Century McCarthy Era Cold War & Red Scare
The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the US intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack targets deep...
Summit of the Future: Youth Driven Action Needed to Tackle Nuclear and Climate Crises
Driving the Summit of the Future’s core messages of international solidarity and decisive action are young people who are determined to address the intersecting issues that the world contends w...
Are the World’s Ongoing Conflicts in Danger of Going Nuclear?
The constant drumbeat of nuclear threats seems never ending—emanating primarily from the Russians, Israeli right-wing politicians and North Koreans. The threats also prompt one lingering questi...
60 Years After Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy Ad,” the Silence on Nuclear War Is Dangerous
One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the Movies” on NBC. The ad began with an adorable ...
The Time to End Nuclear Tests is Now
Today, the General Assembly convenes – for the fifteenth consecutive occasion – to observe the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, which is commemorated annually on 29 August. On this da...
Enough is Enough: End Nuclear Testing Once and For All
In 2009 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 29 August the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. This date recalled the official closing of the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons testing ...
Kazakhstan Takes Lead in Global Push for Nuclear Disarmament Amid Heightened Tensions
In a world increasingly shadowed by the threat of nuclear conflict, Kazakhstan is stepping up its efforts in the global disarmament movement. On August 27-28, 2024, in collaboration with the Unit...
79 Years After Hiroshima & Nagasaki: A Grim Reminder of Nuclear Annihilation
The upcoming 79th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place on August 6 and 9, 1945, remains a grim reminder of the destructive consequences of nuclear weapon...
Will the New Triumvirate—Russia, China & North Korea—Force the South To Go Nuclear?
When Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a pact last month to revive a Cold War-era mutual defense pledge between two of the world’s nuclear powers, it a...
The US Election & the Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
Today, we are facing a growing and unprecedented array of nuclear weapons dangers. At the same time, this year’s presidential election is also unprecedented, unpredictable, and extremely conseq...
New Military Alliances Forming in the Pacific
On the heels of a new alliance announced this summer by Russia and North Korea for a pact pledging mutual defense, with the support of China, it is now shockingly being suggested in South Korea t...
Nuclear Coercion: Dangerous and Illegal
Our three organizations– Western States Legal Foundation, Peace Depot, and Basel Peace Office– all dedicated to the elimination of nuclear weapons, have consistently expressed our concern abo...
Inheriting the Vow to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: Inspiring Action in the Next Generation
The crisis that began with the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shows no signs of ending, and the threat of nuclear war is no longer in the realm of the unimaginable. With conflicts intensify...
A Nuclear-Armed European Union? A Proposal Under Fire
The continued veiled threats from Russia, warning of nuclear attacks on Ukraine, have prompted some politicians in Europe to visualize a nuclear-armed European Union (EU). But Volkert Ohm, Co-Cha...
European Nuclear Deterrent a Harebrained Illegal Proposal
It is quite astonishing and clearly insane, that Manfred Weber, the German leader of the European Union’s center-right European People’s Party, now expected to come in first in the European P...
Lessons From Youth-Focused ‘Future Action Festival’ Ahead of UN Summit of the Future
The world has crossed the halfway point to the end of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era amid multiple, unprecedented, and significantly destructive global shocks. Two of the most press...
The US a Direct Partner in the Israeli War
A major mistake we often commit in our analysis of the US political discourse on the Gaza war is that we assume that the US and Israel behave as if they are two political entities with separate a...
US Senators Threaten Criminal Court & Advise Israel to Nuke Gaza
As the ancient Greek saying goes: those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first drive them mad. Perhaps destruction is too far-fetched here, but madness is closer home—in Washington DC With t...
Choose Hope: Standing at the Crossroads of the Future
We are at the tipping point in human history, facing major existential crises. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has heightened the risk of a nuclear weapon being used since the Cold War. F...
A Russian Veto Threatens to Trigger a Nuclear Arms Race in Outer Space
When the 15-member UN Security Council failed last month to adopt its first-ever resolution on outer space—co-sponsored by the US and Japan—the Russian veto led to speculation whether this wa...
The Summit of the Future Is a Rare Chance to Fix a Broken System: Civil Society Must Be Included
Today, the spectre of a major regional conflict, and even a possible nuclear conflagration, looms large in the Middle East. Despite stark warnings issued by the UN Secretary-General, António Gut...
UN Security Council Holds Rare Nuclear Disarmament Debate
Japan chaired a rare, high-level UN Security Council meeting on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation on March 18. Although the meeting underscored the urgency of addressing the growing threat...
Ahead of UN Summit of the Future, Mobilizing Youth for Change
In a significant precursor to the United Nations Summit of the Future slated for September, the “Future Action Festival” convened at Tokyo’s National Stadium on March 24, drawing a crowd of...
Nuclear Disarmament: A Natural Buddhist-Catholic Alliance, says Japanese Leader
At the United Nations headquarters in New York City, on the third floor, a solemn statue of St. Agnes, holding her namesake lamb, stands as a disturbing reminder of nuclear destruction. The saint...
The Intergenerational Impact of Nuclear Testing in Polynesian States
The language used in the Treaty of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is unambiguous on its focus of the grave humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. The TPNW also recognizes the influenc...
“I Want to Live On” – Documentary Premiere on Kazakhstan Nuclear Test Survivors
This week in New York, nuclear arms and the efforts to abolish these weapons will reign paramount. Since its adoption in 2017 and its subsequent implementation in 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibit...
The Increase in Nuclear Rhetoric on the Korean Peninsula is Deeply Concerning
In his remarks to the UN Security Council on Non -Proliferation/DPRK , November 27
What Is Israel’s End-Game in Gaza?
Unless Israel establishes an exit strategy and an end-game that will lead to a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in full coordination with the US and Saudi Arabia, the war against Hama...
Kazakhstan’s Interfaith Initiative: Fostering Global Harmony through Wisdom and Leadership
In the heart of Central Asia, a nation renowned for its rich cultural diversity, multi-ethnic society, and spiritual traditions has emerged as a global beacon of interfaith harmony and understand...
Religious Leaders Can Help Bring about World Peace
It is not a secret that the world is witnessing rising international tensions and erosion of the global order that has been in place since the establishment of the United Nations. Divisive blocs,...