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465 Recipients of the Order of Canada Call for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
JOHN POLANYI, DOUGLAS ROCHE AND MURRAY THOMSON
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Canada’s Role in Promoting International Security Through Arms Control and Disarmament: Capitalizing on a New ‘Climate of Change’
Canadian Military Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2009
by Gordon Vachon
Introduction
Shortly after the arrival of President Barack Obama’s Administration, enthusiasm concerning the familiar campaign mantra of ‘change’ had already extended well beyond the important issue of climate change. It soon included encouragement to members of the international community to take advantage of an expectation of a new ‘climate of change’ in multilateral arenas dealing with other issues of common concern. News reports appeared quickly about how the Obama Administration might address nuclear issues, including ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Outer space was also mentioned in news reports. All of this was both refreshing and indicative of a fresh look at where arms control and disarmament (ACD) fits into the broader international security agenda.
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Peu de temps après l’élection d’Obama à la tête des États-Unis, l’enthousiasme suscité par le leitmotiv du « changement » lors de la campagne électorale ne portait plus seulement sur la question cruciale du changement climatique, mais sur bien d’autres sujets. La communauté internationale a bientôt été encouragée à tirer parti de ce futur « climat de changement » dans des arènes multilatérales où étaient traitées d’autres questions d’intérêt commun. Les médias n’ont pas tardé à discuter de la façon dont le nouveau gouvernement aborderait les questions nucléaires, notamment de la ratification du Traité d’interdiction complète des essais nucléaires, et ont ausi abordé la question de l’espace extra-atmosphérique.
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Practical Steps to Zero Nuclear Weapons |
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PUBLIC FORUM
Monday, January 25th, 2010: 7 – 9 P.M.
Cartier Place Hotel, 180 Cooper St., Ottawa.
The featured speaker at the Monday evening programme is Ambassador Henrik Salander, who chaired the 2002 Preparatory Committee of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Retired from the Swedish foreign service, he currently serves as the Chair of the Middle Powers Initiative. From 2003 to 2006, he was the Secretary-General of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, which was chaired by Dr. Hans Blix.
Co-sponsors: The Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (CNANW), Canadian Federation of University Women, the Canadian Pugwash Group (CPG), the Canadian Student Young Pugwash Group (CSYP), Lawyers for Social Responsibility (LSR), Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), Project Ploughshares, Sisters of Service of Canada, World Federalists Movement -Canada
EXPERT CONFERENCE The conference on Tuesday 26 January will include experts from both the Obama administration and the Canadian government, as well as distinguished NGO experts. CPG has requested the Conference Steering Committee to reserve some places for observers from the sponsoring groups. Email to Nancy Regehr (
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) if you wish to attend.
[See the program doc] *Updated 01/21/2010
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An Arctic Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone: Why is now the time? |
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Phyllis Creighton addressed the Annual General Meeting, held in Toronto on 27 Oct. 2009, of the Ontario/Quebec branch of Veterans Against Nuclear Arms. It draws on material developed by members of Canadian Pugwash for earlier conferences, particularly the August 2009 Copenhagen conference jointly sponsored by CPG and Danish Pugwash. Published in the January 2010 Science for Peace Bulletin."
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Canadian Action for Zero Nuclear Weapons |
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Briefing paper for conference,Jan 25-26, 2010
“Practical Steps to Zero Nuclear Weapons”:
Sponsored by the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the Canadian Pugwash Group, Physicians for Global Survival, Project Ploughshares, and World Federalist Movement.
“Twenty years after the end of the Cold War there are at least 23,000 nuclear warheads still in existence, with a combined blast capacity equivalent to 150,000 Hiroshima bombs. The US and Russia together have over 22,000, and France, the UK, China, India, Pakistan and Israel around 1,000 between them. Nearly half of all warheads are still operationally deployed, and the US and Russia each have over 2,000 weapons on dangerously high alert, ready to be launched immediately –
within a decision window of just 4-8 minutes for each president – in the event of perceived attack. The command and control systems of the Cold War years were repeatedly strained by mistakes and false alarms. With more nuclear-armed states now, and more system vulnerabilities, the near miracle of no nuclear exchange cannot continue in perpetuity.” – Report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, 2009.
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Nuclear arms control is back on the table |
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Ramesh Thakur reviews the new report by the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.
"Nuclear arms control is back on the table: The new international road map bridges the gap between minimization and elimination"
From Globe and Mail Jan. 11, 2010
After more than a decade in the doldrums, the issue of nuclear-arms control could make a comeback this year with a review of the size, structure and mission of U.S. nuclear forces, a new Russia-U.S. strategic treaty, a summit in Washington in April and a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conference in May.
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