Nuclear test ban body sees end of INF as opportunity for new disarmament framework
The head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization sees the expiration of the arms control pact between the United States and Russia earlier this month as an opportunity to create a new nuclear disarmament framework. "The situation of the (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty) ... proves ...
Russia rebuffed as a baseless smear on Thursday a U.S. allegation that Moscow may be conducting low-level nuclear tests in violation of a moratorium. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Russia was in full compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which Moscow ...
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency believes Russia is secretly conducting low-yield nuclear tests
The United States believes Russia may be conducting low-level nuclear tests, a U.S. intelligence official on Wednesday, while the head of a body monitoring a global nuclear treaty said there was no sign of such violations by Moscow. Negotiated in the 1990s, the Comprehensive Nuclear ...
Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara said Japan is ready to lead the way in putting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty into force at an early date. Kihara signaled the government's stance in a speech to a one-day ministerial-level meeting in Vienna to commemorate ...
Nuclear test ban talks may be held in April amid heightened tensions over Pyongyang's provocation
The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization plans to convene a ministerial-level meeting as soon as April amid heightened concern over nuclear weapons proliferation following North Korea's nuclear test last week, commission Chairman Cristian Istrate said. At the meeting to commemorate ...
Japan and Kazakhstan urged to lead push for global nuclear test ban
Japan and Kazakhstan should leverage their experience as atomic bomb and nuclear testing victims when they co-chair an upcoming conference aimed at pressing eight key countries to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a U.N. official said recently. "Japan has a moral responsibility, Kazakhstan ...
How India can support the CTBT before signing
India's continued refusal to engaine in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty leads many to wonder if New Delhi is keeping open the option of resuming testing.
In these days of economic woe, potential pandemic disease and widespread civil unrest, it may come as a surprise that so many people around the world still view nuclear conflict as the greatest threat facing humanity. And for good reason.
Japan could host a conference of envoys who represent the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization's group of eminent persons. Preparations are underway to hold the conference, involving experts and former statesmen of the organization, in Hiroshima late next year, government officials said Wednesday. The ...
Japan unveiled a fresh initiative Monday to promote nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation and urged other Asian nations to strengthen their export controls to prevent such countries as North Korea and Iran from acquiring nuclear-related materials. "It is becoming more important for Asian countries to strengthen ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, agreed Sunday that their countries will continue efforts for an early resolution of issues related to Iran's nuclear program. Kishida urged Tehran to join the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency's ...
