Kim Jong-il and Bill Clinton looked to have done a deal to curb North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme for good. What went wrong?
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The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So how did North Korea get one?
Iran’s economic recovery and reintegration into the global economy have become key electoral topics.
Talks begin today at the United Nations to negotiate a total ban of nuclear weapons. Over 3,600 scientists have signed an open letter supporting the ban.
Claims of the destructive powers of nuclear weapons have, for good reasons, been greatly exaggerated.
Donald Trump will soon have command of thousands of nuclear weapons. This presents a new and unknown threat to global security - and an urgent incentive for all states to ban nuclear weapons.
On September 27, 1956, an atomic mushroom cloud rose above the Maralinga plain - the first of seven British bomb tests. Why was Australia so keen to put UK military interests ahead of its own people?
What are the implications of North Korea’s claims to have detonated a thermonuclear weapon?
Increasing trade and commerce will make it easier to verify the Iranians are keeping their promises under the nuclear agreement.
Today’s nuclear arsenals are so powerful that dropping a Hiroshima-size bomb every two hours for 70 years would not exhaust their destructive capacity. The global disarmament regime is broken.
Fears that nuclear weapons would pop up all over the world post-1945 have proven to be overblown.
So there’s now a real plan to sort out Iran’s nuclear programme. What about all its other problems?
A number of states have given up on pursuing nuclear disarmament through the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Instead they are moving to create a new legal mechanism for banning nuclear weapons
Through history, nuclear power has gone hand in hand with the nuclear arms race. But does it have to be this way? Closer international cooperation can help nations embrace nuclear power peacefully.
Iran has never backed out of the nuclear nonproliferation regime in principle. But what about those who never signed up in the first place?
Polls in Iran and US underscore the mutual popular mistrust that could scuttle a final deal.
The US is just one actor in an important global non-proliferation regime that works towards preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
Iran is being pushed to the edge by sanctions over its nuclear programme. Will its dying Supreme Leader cave to the pressure?
The second hand of the Doomsday Clock is now only three minutes to midnight. This is the closest to apocalypse we have come since 1984 – the coldest of Cold War years, just a year after Able Archer, the…
Many in the West suddenly seem to think we’re on the road to a new Cold War. Talk of a return to the era of nuclear rivalry swirls around Russia’s muscular and belligerent grandstanding over Ukraine, and…
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