With the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock set at 100 seconds to midnight, and the world’s nuclear powers upgrading their nuclear arsenals and dangerously engaging in provocative military “exercises”, activists and advocates around the world are working to prevent nuclear war and build a nuclear weapons free world.
In the runup to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference scheduled for this August at the United Nations, the international Peace & Planet Network, a project of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, seeks to hold the nuclear weapons states accountable to their NPT Article VI commitment to engage in good faith negotiations for the complete elimination of their nuclear arsenals. We are beginning with a series of webinars to share information and analysis and to coordinate efforts.
The first webinar, “The International Nuclear Disarmament Agenda: Civil Society Perspectives from Seven Key States” was held February 23. Speakers were
- Oleg Bodrov Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland (Russia)
- Jackie Cabasso Western States Legal Foundation (US)
- Sharon Dolev Middle East Treaty Organization (Israel)
- Daryl Kimball Arms Control Association (US)
- Emad Kiyaei Middle East Treaty Organization (Iran)
- Zhau Tong Tsinghua University (China)
The webinar was chaired by Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Click here to watch the video recording.
