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		<title>Sustainable world depends on nuclear abolition</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/05/22/sustainable-world/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/05/22/sustainable-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catastrophic humanitarian consequences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is clear that there is new momentum to finally achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons. The recent medical and environmental data shows that these weapons are not only homicidal, but they are ecocidal. Their presence poses an unacceptable risk to all life on this planet and their elimination must be a primary goal if we are to achieve a sustainable future.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2530&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Bildt — Is he serious?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/05/21/carl-bildt/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/05/21/carl-bildt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gunnar Westberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Bildt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catastrophic humanitarian consequences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=2527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We in SLMK, the Swedish affiliate of IPPNW, have worked hard over a long time to resurrect the failing dedication to nuclear disarmament in the Swedish Foreign Office. We tried repeatedly to get the MFA to sign on to the South African paper at the NPT PrepCom. We had no success. The MFA prefers to align itself with the nuclear-weapon states.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2527&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid or Safe? ICAN launches new petition for nuclear weapons ban</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/05/16/stupid-or-safe/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/05/16/stupid-or-safe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:42:32 +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[#goodbyenukes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ICAN—the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons—has started a global petition drive calling for the commencement of negotiations on a treaty banning nuclear weapons.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2523&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Japan admits the obvious</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/25/japan-admits-obvious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#goodbyenukes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catastrophic humanitarian consequences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiroshima]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagasaki]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When some 50 protesters gathered outside the Japanese Mission to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva yesterday, questioning that country's refusal to sign onto a joint statement on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons submitted to the NPT PrepCom by 74 other non-nuclear-weapon states, Ambassador Mari Amano felt obliged to give an answer. Why, after all, would the only country ever to have felt the full effects of atomic bombings find it difficult to condemn their existence on humanitarian grounds and join an appeal for their total elimination?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2517&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>74 NPT States issue humanitarian appeal for abolition</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/24/74-npt-states-issue-humanitarian-appeal-for-abolition/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/24/74-npt-states-issue-humanitarian-appeal-for-abolition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:28:42 +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[#goodbyenukes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catastrophic humanitarian consequences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of countries demanding the elimination of nuclear weapons as a humanitarian imperative grew to 74 today, when South Africa read a joint statement on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons on behalf of that many delegations to the 2013 Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee in Geneva.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2508&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The legacy of chemical warfare in Iran</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/22/chemical-warfare-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/22/chemical-warfare-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gunnar Westberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chemical weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemical Weapons Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran-Iraq war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-five years ago, in 1988, Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against the Kurdish town of Halabja. This atrocity is what we most often talk about when we decry chemical warfare. We do not remember Sadasht and all the other cities in Iran that were also attacked by Iraq. We forget that Iran is a country which has suffered, by far, much more than any other from the terrible effects of mustard gas and nerve gas. This upsets the Iranians today, with good reason. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2502&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That’s where the money goes</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/18/the-mone/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/18/the-mone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Wittner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[military spending]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=2498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[World military expenditures in 2012 totaled $1.75 trillion. The world’s biggest military spender by far was the US government, whose expenditures for war and preparations for war amounted to $682 billion — 39 percent of the global total.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2498&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irrational generals in Pyongyang?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/16/2485/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/16/2485/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gunnar Westberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear weapons; Korea; war by mistake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever anyone says about North Korea and its leaders and its policy, remember: No one understands the country. Unfortunately, that means no one can predict what the leaders will do in a certain situation. So, that applies to what I write, too. But even if you do not understand there are certain things you must [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2485&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just sign the damn thing!</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/15/just-sign-the-damn-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/15/just-sign-the-damn-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xanthe Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPPNW News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaigning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petitions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I did something new last week. I started a petition on change.org for ICAN. Now I have signed many online petitions in my time and I have written quite a few too. But I have never used a large online petitioning platform before. The title of the petition – as you may already know – [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2482&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cameron: The North Koreans are coming!</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/07/koreans-are-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2013/04/07/koreans-are-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 09:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gunnar Westberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trident]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cameron: The North Koreans are coming!The British Prime minister is (again making a first class fool of himself: He claims that the North Korean threat of a war against South Korea &#8211; and the USA- makes it necessary for UK to build the next generation of Trident nuclear submarines and missiles. He believes the missiles [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2477&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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