Later this month, President Obama will visit Hiroshima. By Setsuko Thurlow and Dr Ira Helmand via CNN Seventy-one years after an atomic bomb leveled the city, it is no doubt progress that a sitting U.S. president, the commander of a nuclear arsenal that can destroy...
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Barack Obama will be first sitting US President to visit Hiroshima
Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month - the first serving US president to travel to the Japanese city since it was hit by a US nuclear bomb in 1945. by BBC Asia The visit will be part of an Asian trip from 21-28 May that will also take in Vietnam. The...
US Nuclear Security Summit Shadowed by Rising Terrorism
When some of the world’s major nuclear powers meet in Washington DC next Friday, they will be shadowed by the rising terrorist attacks– largely in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. by Thalif Deen via Inter Press Service The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit, which...
Security without Nuclear Weapons: The Regional-International Nexus
A Middle East without Weapons of Mass Destruction, Palestine-Israel Journal, vol. 19, no. 12 (Jerusalem, 2013)Putting human security needs ahead of national military concerns opens up options, opportunities and processes for banning and eliminating nuclear weapons....