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Jim Wurst is a UN-based journalist specializing in arms control issues.

More Talk -- and Maybe Action -- on Nuclear Weapons in May

By Jim Wurst | Mar 03, 2010

Could 2010 finally be the year for a breakthrough in the world’s most intractable arms control problem: the elimination of nuclear weapons? There have certainly been important positive developments, most notably willingness by the United States to re-engage in multilateral diplomacy and to entertain the idea of a world free of nuclear weapons as a realistic – rather than rhetorical – goal.

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The Test-Ban Treaty, Inching Toward Full Approval

By Jim Wurst | Sep 23, 2009

The drive for a total ban on the testing of nuclear weapons should get a long-awaited kick-start tomorrow when the parties to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty hold a high-level conference to promote the entry into force of the treaty.

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