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		<title>Iran and nuclear weapons. A personal reflection.</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/07/04/iran-and-nuclear-weapons-a-personal-reflection/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/07/04/iran-and-nuclear-weapons-a-personal-reflection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gunnar Westberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the nineteen sixties there were many who believed that there was a military threat from China against  Europe. “Optimists learn Russian, pessimists learn Chinese” was a common joke. “Whatever you say, China is hell on earth” I heard a respected politician say in 1965. So I went there to see for myself, together with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&blog=2530833&post=1069&subd=ippnweupdate&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Nuclear Weapons Free World: The withering of a vision</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/06/22/obama-nuclear-weapons-free-world-the-withering-of-a-vision/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/06/22/obama-nuclear-weapons-free-world-the-withering-of-a-vision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gunnar Westberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama seems to have lost the vision of US leadership on the road to a world free of nuclear weapons. Or did we read too much into his Prague speech?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&blog=2530833&post=1063&subd=ippnweupdate&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IPPNW recommends public health action plan to UN small arms meeting</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/06/18/ippnw-recommends-public-health-action-plan-to-un-small-arms-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/06/18/ippnw-recommends-public-health-action-plan-to-un-small-arms-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aiming For Prevention]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As an NGO participant at the Fourth Biennial Meeting of States (BMS), which was convened to review implementation of the UN&#8217;s action plan to combat the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, IPPNW had an opportunity to address the conference on Thursday, June 17, during a special civil society session. Dr. Emperatriz Crespin, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&blog=2530833&post=1051&subd=ippnweupdate&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joint Statement on Gaza</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/06/08/joint-statement-on-gaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint Statement on the Armed Assault on Ships to Gaza Palestinian Physicians For the Prevention of Nuclear War (PPPNW) and the Israeli Physicians For Peace and the Preservation Of The Environment (IPPPE) Affiliates of International Physicians For the Prevention of Nuclear War, Agree as follows: Our two organizations condemn the armed assault in international waters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&blog=2530833&post=1048&subd=ippnweupdate&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The NPT Review Conference: Success is in the eye of the beholder</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/06/04/npt-review-report/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/06/04/npt-review-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The only clear point of consensus at the outset of the five-year review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which took place last month in New York, was that it had to succeed. The collapse of the 2005 Review Conference and the lack of progress on nearly every one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&blog=2530833&post=1040&subd=ippnweupdate&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">John Loretz</media:title>
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		<title>NPT outcome: We did it!</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/05/28/npt-outcome-we-did-it/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/05/28/npt-outcome-we-did-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 20:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After days of excruciating negotiations, often long into the night, threats that the outcome document would be blocked, a series of postponements on the final day, and confusion and uncertainty right up until Conference President Cabactulan dropped his gavel, the 2010 NPT Review adopted a final report accompanied by an action plan that makes two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&blog=2530833&post=1037&subd=ippnweupdate&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">John Loretz</media:title>
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		<title>PSR to Obama: NPT Review outcome should call for Nuclear Weapons Convention</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/05/18/psr-to-obama-npt-review-outcome-should-call-for-nuclear-weapons-convention/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/05/18/psr-to-obama-npt-review-outcome-should-call-for-nuclear-weapons-convention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is our hope that the US would support inclusion of a call for a Nuclear Weapons Convention in the outcomes document.   Opposing such a call may undermine the progress you have made in the last year and raise questions about whether the US and other nuclear weapons states seek to maintain their monopoly on these weapons.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&blog=2530833&post=1009&subd=ippnweupdate&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The NPT identity crisis</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/05/13/the-npt-identity-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/05/13/the-npt-identity-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 20:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is this NPT Review Conference all about? You might as well ask someone with multiple personality disorder to fill out a short biographical questionnaire. The disarmament personality – let’s call her “Abby” – wants the Conference to produce nothing less than a roadmap to a nuclear-weapons-free world. Abby, however, is having a hard time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&blog=2530833&post=1002&subd=ippnweupdate&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">John Loretz</media:title>
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		<title>Laying down the law on nuclear disarmament</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/05/13/laying-down-the-law-on-nuclear-disarmament/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/05/13/laying-down-the-law-on-nuclear-disarmament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 19:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The tired old mantra of arms control and incremental steps is still dominating discussions at the NPT Review Conference, despite the growing push for a Nuclear Weapons Convention. All too many of the non-nuclear-weapon states seem content in seeking only the most modest action on disarmament. Their calls, for the most part, lack any sense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&blog=2530833&post=994&subd=ippnweupdate&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">timwright85</media:title>
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		<title>We must delegitimize nuclear weapons</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/05/12/we-must-delegitimize-nuclear-weapons/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2010/05/12/we-must-delegitimize-nuclear-weapons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than four decades have passed since the NPT entered into force. Yet today many governments, particularly those in the Western Group, continue to regard nuclear weapons as legitimate instruments of national security. The few “privileged” states that possess nuclear weapons still attach great prestige to them. If we are to succeed in the campaign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&blog=2530833&post=972&subd=ippnweupdate&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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