Nuclear Abolition
New Zealand led this issue in the 1980s by banning all nuclear weapons on our territory. Now the world is slowly following and the abolition of nuclear weapons is becoming a possible dream. This section will keep you up to date on issues surrounding nuclear abolition.
Hiroshima Peace Media Centre
The Hiroshima Peace Media Center is a new wing of the Chugoku Shimbun, founded in 1892 and now one of Japan’s largest newspapers with a circulation of 720,000. Launched on January 1, 2008 to begin transmitting peace-related reporting via the internet in English and Japanese, the Hiroshima Peace MeTime Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. Each nation gets a blipNuclear Suppliers Group - Meeting Hosted in NZ
The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is a group of 46 countries which aims to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons through export controls on nuclear goods and nuclear-related technologies. New Zealand is a member because the Group's guidelines cover high-technology "dual-use" goods, which aResponse to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference 2010
.The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote co-operation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and completCheater's Risk - Could you get away with building a nuclear bomb?
Cheater’s Risk is an interactive exploration of the dynamics in a world where nuclear weapons have been banned by a global treaty. The player steps into the role of a country seeking to gain the advantage of a monopoly on nuclear weapons and must avoid being detected by national intelligence serviStudents send message of peace to President Obama
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today sent 1000 paper cranes to President Obama, which he received from students visiting his office from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, to highlight the importance of nuclear disarmament. The students told the Congressman that they folded 23,000 cranes to represYouth Reject Nuclear Weapons
Soka Gakkai International (SGI) facilitated a survey of youth at the beginning of this year from countries including New Zealand. Text below is from the SGI website: Asked whether the presence of nuclear weapons contributes to global peace and stability, 59.6% of respondents, including those fromBreaking Through for Peace – Petition to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Sign the Breaking Through for Peace petition launched by youth from the Global Union, an international network of 900 unions representing over 20 million people. The petition supports Ban Ki-moon's initiatives for nuclear disarmament and for a redirection of military spendingHas your parliamentarian signed the declaration for a nuclear weapons convention?
On Tuesday, July 1, 2008 over 75 members of the European Parliament commemorated the 40th anniversary of the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) by launching a Parliamentary declaration in support of the Nuclear Weapons Convention. Â The declaration calls for implementatioUnited Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Nuclear Disarmament Plan
On United Nations Day 24 October 2008 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released a five point plan for nuclear disarmament calling primarily on governments to negotiate a treaty or package of treaties to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. The plan was immediatePage 1 of 2
