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The world put the brakes on nuclear weapons. Is it time to do the same with fossil fuels?
1 month, 1 week ago

The world put the brakes on nuclear weapons. Is it time to do the same with fossil fuels?

BBC  

The world put the brakes on nuclear weapons. Getty Images Pledges to reduce emissions still fall far short of what's needed to keep temperature changes below 1.5C, experts say "When we first launched, there was an impression that we don't believe in, we don't believe in the UNFCCC," says Amiera Sawas, head of research and policy at the Fossil Fuel …

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Chirala Election Result 2024 LIVE Updates Highlights: Assembly Winner, Loser, Leading, Trailing, MLA, Margin
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Chirala Election Result 2024 LIVE Updates Highlights: Assembly Winner, Loser, Leading, Trailing, MLA, Margin

News 18  

Follow the live updating tables on this page for the 2024 Chirala election result and real-time updates and status of candidates in the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Assembly election. Past Results In the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, Karanam Balarama Krishna Murthy of TDP won in this seat defeating Amanchi Krishna Mohan of YSRCP by a margin of 17419 votes which …

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The global nuclear order is under strain
11 months, 3 weeks ago

The global nuclear order is under strain

The Hindu  

To gain legitimacy, any global order needs to fulfil two conditions. Following the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two came perilously close to launching a nuclear war, both U.S. President John F. Kennedy and General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev understood two political realities. The hotline was followed by arms control negotiations as the two nuclear superpowers sought to manage their …

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Full text: NATO Vilnius summit communique
1 year, 5 months ago

Full text: NATO Vilnius summit communique

Al Jazeera  

NATO leaders are holding their annual summit as Ukraine looks to the security alliance for support in its attempt to push back invading Russian forces. Russia’s more assertive posture, novel military capabilities, and provocative activities, including near NATO borders, as well as its large-scale no-notice and snap exercises, continue to threaten the security of the Euro-Atlantic area. We are working …

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Asia’s Nuclear Future
1 year, 8 months ago

Asia’s Nuclear Future

The Diplomat  

It may not happen for some time, or at all, but the next nation that joins the nuclear club will be in Asia. Most of Russia’s perhaps 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons are deployed in Asia, and Moscow’s relationships with Iran and North Korea are relevant to potential proliferation. It’s here that Asia’s nuclear future is most evident, with a new …

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Explained | The AUKUS deal to get nuclear-powered submarines for Australia
1 year, 9 months ago

Explained | The AUKUS deal to get nuclear-powered submarines for Australia

The Hindu  

The story so far: United States President Joe Biden, alongside his Australian and British counterparts Anthony Albanese and Rishi Sunak, unveiled on Monday, March 13, a deal to sell U.S. Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia and to provide American technology for the production of such submarines in British and Australian facilities. Stating that challenges to global stability had only grown …

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AUKUS: China threatens US, UK for arming non-nuclear Australia with tons of weapons-grade enriched uranium
1 year, 9 months ago

AUKUS: China threatens US, UK for arming non-nuclear Australia with tons of weapons-grade enriched uranium

Firstpost  

Pro-China experts called AUKUS deal an ’expensive mistake’ and a ’time bomb for peace’ in the region Beijing: The AUKUS nuclear submarine deal involving Australia, US and UK has unnerved China. The Chinese government claimed the US and UK are “clearly violating the object and purpose of the NPT” by transferring tons of weapons-grade enriched uranium to a non-nuclear-weapon Australia. …

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Biden’s Armageddon: US 2022 nuclear posture review raises spectre of The End
2 years ago

Biden’s Armageddon: US 2022 nuclear posture review raises spectre of The End

Firstpost  

The fifth review, the most dangerous since the first in 1994, is ambiguous and a pretext to increase the US nuke stockpile A month after Vladimir Putin asserted in September that the possibility of using his massive arsenal of nuclear weapons against Ukraine wasn’t a bluff and he will “use all available means to protect Russia”, Joe Biden raised the …

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4 Decades of Reckoning With North Korea’s Nuclear Threat – and Counting
2 years, 2 months ago

4 Decades of Reckoning With North Korea’s Nuclear Threat – and Counting

The Diplomat  

What to do about North Korea’s nuclear armament is an urgent question that Seoul and its partners must answer even as global and regional strategic circumstances change rapidly due to the pandemic, the Ukraine war, and most especially, the unravelling of U.S. nuclear hegemony, which injects uncertainty into the strategic calculations of all the parties to the Korean conflict, but …

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4 Decades of Reckoning With North Korea’s Nuclear Threat – and Counting
2 years, 2 months ago

4 Decades of Reckoning With North Korea’s Nuclear Threat – and Counting

The Diplomat  

What to do about North Korea’s nuclear armament is an urgent question that Seoul and its partners must answer even as global and regional strategic circumstances change rapidly due to the pandemic, the Ukraine war, and most especially, the unravelling of U.S. nuclear hegemony, which injects uncertainty into the strategic calculations of all the parties to the Korean conflict, but …

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China withdraws anti-AUKUS resolution at IAEA due to lack of support
2 years, 2 months ago

China withdraws anti-AUKUS resolution at IAEA due to lack of support

Hindustan Times  

China withdrew a draft resolution against the AUKUS alliance at the general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on Friday after apprehending that the measure would not receive majority support, people familiar with the matter said. China clashed with the three countries in the AUKUS alliance at the UN nuclear watchdog over the plan to supply Australia …

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Explained | What is the IAEA, the agency seeking permanent presence at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant?
2 years, 3 months ago

Explained | What is the IAEA, the agency seeking permanent presence at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency continued their survey on Friday, September 2 for the second day to assess the safety situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on the banks of the Dnieper River near the Ukrainian town of Enerhodar. The IAEA mission, led by the agency’s Director General Rafael Grossi, braved gunfire in …

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The NPT is beginning to look shaky
2 years, 3 months ago

The NPT is beginning to look shaky

The Hindu  

The Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons concluded last week in New York. The only surviving arms control treaty between Russia and the U.S. is the New START Treaty which imposes a ceiling on operational strategic nuclear weapons of 700 launchers and 1,550 warheads each. The statement remains valid but clearly …

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Russia blocks final document at U.N. nuclear treaty conference
2 years, 3 months ago

Russia blocks final document at U.N. nuclear treaty conference

The Hindu  

Russia late Friday blocked agreement on the final document of a four-week review of the U. N. treaty considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament which criticised its military takeover of Europe's largest nuclear plant soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, an act that has raised fears of a nuclear disaster. Igor Vishnevetsky, deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Non-Proliferation …

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Russia blocks final document at nuclear treaty conference
2 years, 3 months ago

Russia blocks final document at nuclear treaty conference

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — Russia late Friday blocked agreement on the final document of a four-week review of the U.N. treaty considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament which criticized its military takeover of Europe’s largest nuclear plant soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, an act that has raised fears of a nuclear disaster. Igor Vishnevetsky, deputy director of the Russian Foreign …

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U.N. chief warns world is one step from ‘nuclear annihilation’
2 years, 4 months ago

U.N. chief warns world is one step from ‘nuclear annihilation’

The Hindu  

The United Nations chief warned the world on August 1 that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” citing the war in Ukraine, nuclear threats in Asia and the Middle East and many other factors. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said divisions in the world since the last review conference in 2015, which ended without a …

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Vladimir Putin warns against nuclear war in letter to nuclear non-proliferation forum
2 years, 4 months ago

Vladimir Putin warns against nuclear war in letter to nuclear non-proliferation forum

ABC  

Russian President Vladimir Putin says there can be no winners in a nuclear war and no such war should ever be started. Key points: Mr Putin had ordered Russia's nuclear forces to be put on high alert at the beginning of its war against Ukraine Russia test launched its new intercontinental ballistic missile in April Mr Biden said the US …

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Putin says there would be ‘no winners’ in a nuclear war and one should never be started
2 years, 4 months ago

Putin says there would be ‘no winners’ in a nuclear war and one should never be started

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Vladimir Putin has given an …

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Biden calls on Russia, China to enter nuclear arms control talks
2 years, 4 months ago

Biden calls on Russia, China to enter nuclear arms control talks

The Hindu  

President Joe Biden called Monday on Russia and China to enter nuclear arms control talks, saying that Moscow in particular has a duty to show responsibility after its invasion of Ukraine. "Russia should demonstrate that it is ready to resume work on nuclear arms control," Biden said. "There is no benefit to any of our nations, or for the world, …

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World one misstep from ‘nuclear annihilation’: UN chief
2 years, 4 months ago

World one misstep from ‘nuclear annihilation’: UN chief

Al Jazeera  

Antonio Guterres sounds a global alarm at the opening of the meeting to review a landmark nuclear weapons treaty. Nuclear threats emanating from the war in Ukraine as well as in Asia and the Middle East have put the world one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation”, the United Nations secretary-general said. The meeting is “an opportunity to hammer out the …

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Indonesia criticises submarine loophole in nuclear non-proliferation treaty that underpins AUKUS deal
2 years, 4 months ago

Indonesia criticises submarine loophole in nuclear non-proliferation treaty that underpins AUKUS deal

ABC  

Indonesia has issued a forceful warning about the dangers of sharing nuclear propulsion technology ahead of a high-profile United Nations meeting that is expected to scrutinise Australia's plans to develop nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS pact. Key points: Indonesia is concerned that shared nuclear technology for submarines could lead to the development of nuclear weapons Australia was not directly referenced, …

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The Russia-Ukraine war: An opportunity for nuclear disarmament?
2 years, 8 months ago

The Russia-Ukraine war: An opportunity for nuclear disarmament?

Al Jazeera  

The war opens up the possibility of a more inclusive conversation on disarmament that recognises that a nuclear-free world should not be an aspiration with an indefinite timeline. And that is the requirement under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty for nuclear-weapon states “to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms …

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Why isn’t global interconnectedness halting war?
2 years, 9 months ago

Why isn’t global interconnectedness halting war?

The Hindu  

In a bid to isolate Russia, the world has imposed some of the most wide-raging sanctions seen in recent times, as the war in Ukraine enters the eighth day. To discuss the implications of Russia’s war on its neighbouring country, Asoke Mukerji and Mohan Kumar look at the human cost of the war in a conversation moderated by Suhasini Haider. …

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The status of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
2 years, 11 months ago

The status of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

The Hindu  

The story so far : On Monday, five global nuclear powers, China, Russia, U.S., U.K., and France, pledged to prevent atomic weapons from spreading and avoid nuclear conflict. The P5’s joint statement, ‘Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races’, affirms to non-offensive uses of nuclear weapons and committing to the NPT agreement. Cessation of the nuclear arms race and working …

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