Sentences with phrase «nuclear ban treaty»

Karina Lester shows a photo of her father Yami Lester at the recent UN negotiations for a nuclear ban treaty.

Disarmament advocates and states supporting the nuclear ban treaty had realistic and security focused reasons for pursuing nuclear disarmament and the treaty, however, they were dismissed as being driven by emotions and values not rational thought.

During informal comments in the United Nations General Assembly's First Committee in 2016, the United Kingdom's ambassador stated that the states pressing for a nuclear ban treaty did not have security concerns unlike the states who opposed the negotiations which did.

However, the process that led to the nuclear ban treaty framed the conversation around the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons.

If the problem is nuclear weapons, beyond supporting the new nuclear ban treaty, what can the world do to eliminate nuclear weapons everywhere, starting with these actually existing weapons?

The states promoting the nuclear ban treaty are, of course, not enslaved like the Haitians, but both cases share the same moral grammar: a set of universal values is for the first time being leveraged against its creators.

«Do the Swedes really think we would downgrade our relationship to punish them for signing a nuclear ban treaty?»

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ICAN, which is a coalition of smaller organizations, has long campaigned for a treaty that would ban the use of nuclear weapons.

American opposition to atmospheric nuclear testing helped make possible the 1963 partial test - ban treaty.

The ban treaty, if it is adopted, will most likely be made up of a relatively short text declaring the use, possession, and transfer of nuclear weapons unlawful.

While all the campaigns noted above were developed or at least supported by most European states, the nuclear ban - treaty movement marks the first time an instrument of international humanitarian law is forced into existence against a kicking and screaming European core.

President Kennedy will be remembered for his many accomplishments such as the successful outcome of the Cuban missile crisis, expanding the space program, founding the Peace Corps, addressing discrimination and poverty and establishing the nuclear test ban treaty.

In March 2003, for instance, seismometers detected a disturbance coming from near Lop Nor, a dried - up lake in western China that the Chinese government, which signed but hasn't ratified the test ban treaty, has used for nuclear tests.

Most of the world's countries have agreed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, but with the nuclear powers boycotting it, will it make a difference?

Jason has provided technical advice on topics ranging from biomedical imaging to ballistic missile defense to verification of the nuclear test ban treaty.

With the nuclear powers due to begin negotiating a test ban treaty next January, Vertic believes independent verification of testing activity will help to foster openness.

Hundreds of nuclear bomb detonations in the atmosphere prior to a 1963 test ban treaty doubled the amount of radioactive carbon found in the ocean.

Nature of Gamma - ray Bursts Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) were discovered in 1967 by satellites designed to monitor compliance with the atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty.

Cousins is the author of a number of nonfiction books on the topic of world peace and nuclear disarmament; and facilitated communication between the Holy See, the Kremlin and the White House which helped lead to the Soviet - American test ban treaty.

Eight chapters are devoted to Berlin and nuclear strategy, 14 to Cuba, 4 to JFK's work on a test - ban treaty and on taking advantage of the Sino - Soviet split, and 11 to Laos and Vietnam.

As AI researchers, the signatories compare themselves to chemists, biologists, and physicists who had «no interest in building chemical or biological weapons» and therefore supported the treaties banning chemical and biological weapons, as well as space - based nuclear weapons and blinding laser weapons.

A Melbourne GP with a strong interest in public health, she has just returned from 10 days in New York at the UN, as a civil society participant at negotiations between 120 - plus countries for an historic nuclear weapons ban treaty which is expected to be concluded on July 7.