The UN vote will take place today, October 27th 2016. Â The UK, France and US have been at the forefront of opposition, having boycotted previous UN working groups on multilateral nuclear disarmament in 2013 and 2016, but if at least 100 UN member states vote in...
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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urged to participate in multilateral disarmament progress at the UN
by Jon Stone via The Independent Boris Johnson has been urged to back a United Nations initiative to restart efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Groups including Greenpeace UK, CND, and Quakers in Britain wrote to the Foreign Secretary to ask him to...
Security and humanitarian implications of relying on nuclear weapons for deterrence, and effective legal alternatives
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The Necessity to Reduce and Eliminate Nuclear Threats and Weapons in the Middle East and Internationally
Water, Energy and the Arab Awakening by the Interaction Council Chapter 16 by Rebecca Johnson [embeddoc url="https://new.acronym.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IAC-book-chapter-by-REJohnson2014.pdf" download="all"]Â
Arms Control and Diplomatic Diplomacy
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy edited by Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur (Oxford University Press, 2013 Chapter 32 (available in pdf here) Arms Control and Disarmament Diplomacy Rebecca Johnson Strategic relations dramatically transformed in...