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		<title>A few questions for the still-not-nuclear-weapon-free states</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/05/15/snnwfs/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/05/15/snnwfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gunnar Westberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That the Still-not-Nuclear-Weapon-Free States—SNNWFS—intend to remain in their state of non-compliance  is shown by their  refusal to take nukes off High Alert and by their very active nuclear weapons modernization program.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2020&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are the nuclear weapon states rattled?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/05/03/nws-rattled/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/05/03/nws-rattled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catastrophic humanitarian consequences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea that nuclear weapons represent a humanitarian catastrophe—language that was actually part of the outcome document of the 2010 NPT Review—has been taken up as a thematic focal point of this PrepCom, not only by NGOs but also by a growing and energized group of states.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2004&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">John Loretz</media:title>
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		<title>IPPNW at the NPT PrepCom: Risks and consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/05/02/risks-and-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/05/02/risks-and-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, NGOs presented a series of papers to the 2012 NPT PrepCom. IPPNW Regional Vice President and the Chair of the ICAN core group, Dr. Tilman Ruff, delivered the following paper on the risks and consequences of nuclear weapons, which was prepared by IPPNW in collaboration with the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and People for Nuclear Disarmament.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1999&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new divestment campaign with old roots</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/03/08/divestment-roots/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/03/08/divestment-roots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divestment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE boycott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has never been a full-fledged divestment campaign with nuclear weapons as the focal point.  From 1984 to 1993, however, grassroots campaigners who had organized a successful boycott of Nestle’s infant formula marketing practices in the developing world turned their attention to General Electric and its involvement in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1921&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear divestment: the medical case</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/03/07/nuclear-weapons-divestment/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/03/07/nuclear-weapons-divestment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divestment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons launched a major study on the global financing of nuclear weapons producers. The 180-page report argues that banks, pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers should divest from companies involved in the manufacture, maintenance and modernization of nuclear forces.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1907&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>700 prominent Australians call for nuclear abolition</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/02/17/700-prominent-australians/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/02/17/700-prominent-australians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons Convention]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than 700 prominent Australians have signed onto a statement calling for a global treaty to abolish nuclear arsenals....Tim Wright of ICAN-Australia said he hopes the statement will lead to Australia joining some 146 other nations that have responded to a call by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for a treaty to outlaw and eliminate the weapons.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1898&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An 80% reduction? Now that&#8217;s a down payment on a nuclear-weapon-free world!</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/02/16/down-payment/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/02/16/down-payment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear abolition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of weeks, two things have happened that suggest President Obama's Prague vision of a nuclear-weapons-free world—or at least some slightly more ambitious version of it than we’ve seen in the past three years—may be guiding the administration’s actions after all.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1890&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You choose: $105 billion a year for health care or nuclear weapons?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/28/health-care-or-nuclear-weapons/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/28/health-care-or-nuclear-weapons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons spending]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011 the nine nuclear-armed nations will spend an estimated US$105 billion maintaining and modernizing their nuclear weapons, despite the International Court of Justice having declared it illegal to use and threaten to use such weapons. This expenditure—up from $91 billion in 2010—casts serious doubt on the sincerity of leaders’ pledges to work for a world free from nuclear arms, suggesting instead a commitment to retain such weapons indefinitely. Beyond the pro-disarmament rhetoric of the nuclear-armed states is the disturbing reality of a massive effort to bolster the world’s nuclear forces, the consequences of which are potentially catastrophic.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1796&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free the World from the Nuclear Chain</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/10/31/free-the-world-from-the-nuclear-chain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xanthe Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enrichment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fallout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear chain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear testing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nuclear Power and the Bomb &#8211; inextricably linked We talk about abandoning nuclear energy or abolishing nuclear weapons. But this is not enough. They are only the visible products of a whole chain of production that binds us – the nuclear chain. This chain does much more damage than we are aware of. At the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1771&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Xanthe Hall</media:title>
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		<title>Remembering Reykjavic</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/10/20/remembering-reykjavic/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/10/20/remembering-reykjavic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gorbachev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An American and a Russian president almost made good on a serious proposal to abolish nuclear weapons 25 years ago this month. The leaders were Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev (who was actually the president of the now-defunct Soviet Union) and the occasion was the 1986 Reykjavic Summit....There's a new surge in demand for global nuclear disarmament among non-nuclear-weapon states—including some with a lot of influence on their nuclear-armed allies. Civil society campaigns for nuclear abolition are giving public voice to the idea that completing this unfinished business has never been more urgent, and that the time is right.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1760&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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