Tilman Ruff (back centre) and a group of ICAN campaigners protest outside Australia’s permanent mission to the UN at Geneva.
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A grassroots movement with its genesis in Melbourne has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
A scholar analyzes the history of the Nobel Peace Prize to ask: What difference has it made?
Capt. Robby Modad closes the gate at an ICBM launch control facility at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota in this 2014 file photo.
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons recently opened to signatures at the United Nations. Canada broke with history and did not join negotiations, nor has it signed. Here’s why it must.
A nuclear blast and runaway climate change could propel us into the Plutocene.
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Imagine a world ravaged by the fallout from nuclear weapons and the runaway effects of climate change. Congratulations, you’ve just imagined the Plutocene, but let’s hope it doesn’t become a reality.
War of words (for now).
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Trump seems to think all potential nuclear agitators are alike. He’s wrong, and perhaps disastrously so.
Kim Jong Un guides the test-fire of Pukguksong-2 in an undated photo released on Feb. 13, 2017.
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Kim Jong Un’s regime has already earned millions from the export of arms, missiles, drugs and endangered wildlife products.
Protesters outside the Trump Tower in New York earlier this year.
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At a time of increasing threat of nuclear war, a historic treaty to ban nuclear weapons might provide a much-needed panacea.
Donald Trump has described Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as the ‘worst deal ever’.
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A policy tug-of-war is taking place in the Trump White House over what to do about Iran.
Boeing WC-135 Constant Phoenix “sniffer plane” used to monitor radioactive emissions from nuclear bomb tests.
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Want to know if a rogue state has performed a nuclear test? Sniffer planes can help.
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North Korea wants the security and prestige of nuclear weapons. It won’t give them up.
Back with a bang.
EPA/Franck Robichon
Pyongyang’s latest test isn’t the great leap forward it purports to be.
South Korea’s Meteorological Administration, on the case.
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Within hours of North Korea’s latest underground nuclear test, Japan and South Korea were both able to independently confirm it had happened. How?
Assumptions, authoritarianism and errors are just a few of the ways in which the world could be confronted by a nuclear disaster, physicist and disarmament expert MV Ramana suggests in his book reviews.
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A nuclear physicist and disarmament expert recommends reading on nuclear disasters, weapons, authoritarianism and climate change.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is applauded at a performance in Pyongyang.
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A former Department of Defense and State Department official explains why a hardline approach on North Korea will likely fail, as it did with Iran.
A rocket is launched from Israel’s Iron Dome, an anti-missile system, in order to intercept a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip in 2011.
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There is much debate over how to react to North Korean missile threats. What can we learn from Israel’s responses to actual rocket attacks?
Images of Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are shown on a news program in Seoul, South Korea on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017.
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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 them?
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Soot thrown into the atmosphere would block out the sun, causing crops to fail and people to go hungry.
The news of an exchange of threats between the U.S. and North Korea is reported in Tokyo on Aug. 9, 2017.
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The most viable nonmilitary solution to the standoff with North Korea is to get China to apply pressure. But that’s not so easy.
Not having it: a protest outside the US embassy in Seoul.
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South Korea has a very particular part to play in handling Pyongyang, but Moon Jae-in has a different one in mind.
In North Korea’s eyes, its nuclear program is the only guarantee of regime survival.
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While some countries were taking a major step toward the elimination of nuclear weapons, the US and its allies were focusing on ineffective, counter-productive sanctions against North Korea.