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Nuclear Disarmament

Land Mines' Random Acts of Cruelty

By Vicky Liu | Apr 18, 2011

Land mines and explosive remnants of war affect more than 70 countries, and though incidents related to unexploded ordnance have dropped significantly in the last few years, they still kill or maim more than 4,000 people annually.

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The NPT Review Conference Ends Successfully

By Jayantha Dhanapala | Jun 22, 2010

The recently revived momentum by the United States and other parties for nuclear disarmament received further impetus at the United Nations’ international conference on the issue in May.

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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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