Why does Chernobyl remain toxic? By Melissa On August 6 and 9, 1945, U.S. airmen dropped the nuclear bombs Little Boy and Fat Man on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima…
- Ramesh Thakur The state of nuclear arms control in 2017 has three distinct storylines. First, there are currently no negotiations or discussions at all on arms control being conducted…
M V Ramana (m.v.ramana@ubc.ca) is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia. Zia Mian (zia@princeton.edu) is co-director…
August 4, 2017 Dear It has been only six months since Donald Trump arrived at the White House. Already, the future of several landmark nuclear weapons agreements is less certain.…
-Richard Falk Abstract On 7 July 2017 122 countries at the UN voted to approve the text of a proposed international treaty entitled ‘Draft Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear…