After first suffering a seeming “brain snap” to acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) some years back, at long last Australia has been promised a fleet of eight SSNs…… Read More Opinion – Australia’s Nuclear-Powered Submarines Will Risk Opening a Pandora’s Box of Proliferation
Vienna, 26 October by Tariq Rauf On 22 January 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) becomes international law in accordance with international legal principles underpinned by the United Nations Charter and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Dreading this eventuality, the nuclear-armed states and the “captive nations” in alliances… Read More Nuclear-armed States Panic as Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty becomes International Law
‘Stronger than Death’ monument in Semey erected in 2001 in memory of the victims of nuclear testing at Semipalatinsk . Photo: Tariq Rauf. By Tariq Rauf ¹ VIENNA: 29 August 2020: On 16th July 1945, the first nuclear explosive device was detonated at the Alamogordo Test Range in the New Mexico desert in the United… Read More International Day Against Nuclear Tests: 75 Years After the First (“Trinity”) Nuclear Test