Archive » Tag: UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

American democratic backsliding, Huawei ban reaction, Ukraine group think and NATO old think

May 29, 2022

We examine a new National Security Report that warns of the danger to Canada posed by America’s democratic unravelling, and consider Huawei, Ukraine and NATO group think.

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75 years since the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – we remember

August 4, 2020

On the solemn occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, it is appropriate for the Government of Canada to take concrete steps to re-establish a leadership role for Canada on nuclear disarmament.

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The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons?

March 23, 2018

“Future historians may record summer 2017 as the beginning of the end of the nuclear age.” So begins a masterful article by Paul Meyer and Tom Sauer on how the historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, aka the Ban Treaty, came about and its implications for bringing humanity closer to a world without […]

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Nuclear Dangers and How to Dispel Them

February 12, 2018

Now, after thirty years of an apparent easing of nuclear tensions since the end of the cold war, fear of nuclear war is real and pressing. – Professor Paul Rogers In his latest article for Opendemocracy.net, A Quick Guide to Nuclear Weapons, Paul Rogers provides a much-needed primer in four parts: A quick history of […]

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