Written Evidence Statement and Testimony regarding: Legislation Resolution 0976-2019 on nuclear disarmament; and INT1621-2019, a bill to create a nuclear disarmament and nuclear weapons-free zone advisory committee, in conjunction with the public hearing on Tuesday,...
Read Rebecca Johnson's 2019 analysis of the Nuclear Ban Treaty's origins, provisions and purpose, just been published in the new book from the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Nuclear Disarmament: A Critical Assessment. Dr Johnson's chapter, titled 'The Nuclear Ban Treaty...
by Rebecca Johnson via OpenDemocracy As Britain and Europe reeled from Brexit Theresa May rushed through the vote on Trident replacement. Was this strong leadership or our human security being sacrificed to expediency? Part 1. In her first parliamentary debate as...
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...