The treaty to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons has been exceptionally successful. Only nine states have them. Now, efforts are underway to completely rid the world of them.
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With a $1 trillion modernisation programme signed off and atomic scientists deeply worried about the future, American policy on nuclear weapons is pretty much business as usual.
Is Australia’s reliance on nuclear defence agreements keeping us on the wrong side of history?
In the summer of 1946, the U.S. government detonated the first of many atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. Seventy years of radiation exposure later, residents are still fighting for justice.
The West has long depended on the nuclear deterrent to quell the threat of ‘rogue’ nations like North Korea. But Pyongyang’s continued nuclear weapons program shows that global disarmament is the only answer.
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Associate Professor in Political Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
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Emeritus Professor, Musashino University
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Professor of Non-Proliferation & International Security, King's College London
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Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and International Studies., University of Birmingham
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Professor of International Security, King's College London
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Associate Professor in US History, University of Nottingham
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Pre-doctoral researcher, University of Cambridge
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Professor and Senior research fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Founding director of the Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and History, Swinburne University of Technology
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PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London
