By Tariq Rauf As Spring is in the offing, the days are drawing near when representatives of up to 191 countries will convene at a review conference at the United Nations in New York, from 27 April 27 to 22 May, to celebrate 50 years of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) being in force. Coincidentally,… Read More Opinion: Relentless Spread of Coronavirus Obliges Postponing of 2020 NPT Review to 2021
By Tariq Rauf VIENNA 1 October 2019: On Wednesday, 2nd October, four candidates will make their case before the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to be appointed as its next Director General. They are: Cornel Feruţă (Romania), Acting Director General of the IAEA; Rafael Mariano Grossi, Ambassador of Argentina to… Read More Time for reform: Bringing transparency to appointing heads of the IAEA
Thoughts on the 74th anniversary of the Hiroshima Nagasaki attacks By Tariq Rauf Introduction August 6 and August 9 mark the 74th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No sentient human being who has met or seen the hibakusha (survivors), or visited the hypocentres in the two cities, or seen the photographic… Read More Creating the conditions and environment to never disarm