The NPT News in Review is a daily publication produced
by Reaching Critical Will during nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty preparatory committees and review conferences. It is
designed to circulate civil society perspectives to governmental
delegates and to provide daily updates to those unable to
attend the conferences.
Friday, 7 May 2010 (No.5) Editorial: Time to
turn in the platinum credit card of nuclear weapons The case against nuclear deterrence
A dissent on Countdown to Zero News in Brief Nuclear Crossword
Russian compliance with article VI
Questions to ask the United States about the negative
security assurance offered in the US Nuclear Posture Review
Strategies to end NATO nuclear sharing
Grassroots diplomacy
The role of parliamentarians in nuclear disarmament
NWC in Brief: Don't believe those who tell us
it's impossible
Countdown to Zero
Today's Calendar of Events
Tuesday, 11 May 2010 (No.7) Editorial: Unsustainable
asymmetry
Response by the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
to the Nuclear Posture Review Report News in Brief
Bad faith: disarmament rhetoric vs. reality
Sustainable security in the 21st century
Prospects for a shift in NATO’s nuclear
posture in 2010
New technologies for verifying the additional
protocol
The next generation: free of the Cold War mentality
Time to delegitimize nuclear weapons
Nexus between science and diplomacy: Role of the
CTBT
Friday, 21 May 2010 (No.15) Editorial:
Bring the action back
‘Learn Peace’: How students are playing
a role in nuclear disarmament and world peace
Review: Nuclear Tipping Point Drafts in Contrast News in Brief
Considering disarming, maybe?
Talking about a Middle East Nuclear Weapon Free
Zone in Jerusalem
Nuclear energy and proliferation
Students simulated negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons
Convention
Calendar of Events
Nuclear Word Search
Wednesday,
26 May 2010 (No.18) Editorial: You can't even
use them!
A Middle East nuclear weapon free zone—the background
French Senators: Wesupport Ban Ki-moon’s plan!
Fear, faith, and nuclear weapons: an interfaith view
on the NPT
Time changed. Will you follow?
Implementing the African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty
Calendar of Events
Nuclear Crossword
Wednesday,
6 May 2009 (No.3) Return
to multilateralism? News
in Brief
Berlin Article VI Forum
The Strangest Dream
International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation
and Disarmament
Prospects, Scope, and Verification of a Fissile
Materials (Cut-off) Treaty
A Multilateral Approach to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle:
Can It Strengthen the NPT?
Nuclear Wordsearch
What's On: Calendar of Events
Thursday, 7 May 2009 (No.4) Competing visions of
disarmament News in Brief
New Prospects for Nuclear Abolition
Response to President Obama's Prague Speech
How to help develop the mobilization of public
opinion for nuclear disarmament
World March for Peace and Nonviolence
Article VI of the NPT: Legal issues and German
perspectives
Progressive Initiatives
Nuclear Crossword
What's On: Calendar of Events
Tuesday, 12 May 2009 (No.7) Finding the balance News in Brief
Educating for disarmament
Will the NPT finally open its arms to the Nuclear
Weapons Convention?
What 1540 could be: An equitable approach to non-proliferation
in a globalised world
Nuclear Bailout: the Costs and Consequences of
Renovating the Nuclear Weapons Complex
Are New Nuclear Warheads Needed for Safety and
Reliability of the U.S. Arsenal?
Nuclear Wordsearch
What's On: Calendar of Events
Friday, 15 May 2009 (No.10) Searching for consensus News in Brief
Unfinished Business: New Opportunities for the
CTBT
Wag the World: The Irrational Grip of Nuclear
Weapons
Towards the 2010 Conference of States Parties
to Nuclear Weapon Free Zones
Disarmament, Law, and Community: From the Local
to the Global
Outlawing the Use of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Crossword
What's On: Today's Calendar of Events
Monday,
28 April 2008 (No. 1) Opportunities
Transparency and Accountability: NPT Reporting
2002-2007
Axis of Responsibility
Nuclear Weapons: Sooo Last Century?!
Negotiations on the model Nuclear Weapon Convention:
Simulation game for youth and students
Nuclear Crossword
What's On: Calendar of Events
Tuesday,
29 April 2008 (No. 2) The
Garden of the NPT
Towards a nuclear weapons convention
Mutlangen Manifesto
Two Papers, One Perspective: A Nuclear Free World
The European Union and the Nuclear Weapons Convention
News in Brief
What's On: Today's Calendar of Events
Nuclear Wordsearch
Wednesday,
30 April 2008 (No. 3) Philosophy
of compromise
US-India Nuclear Agreement: Bad for Nonproliferation,
Bad for Nuclear Disarmament
What is "Good Faith"?
Conclusion from the NGO Presentations
News in Brief
Forty years of NPT: What is at stake?
UN Disarmament Decade
Analysis: Update on Globalizing the INF Treaty
What's On: Today's Calendar of Events
Nuclear Crossword
Thursday, 1 May 2008 (Geneva Holiday, no NIR)
Friday,
2 May 2008 (No. 4) Reductions
or redux?
One minute to midnight
Disarmament education
Engaging youth for nuclear disarmament
How can NGOs mobilize for a NWC?
Cryptoquote News
in Brief
Mayors for Peace events
What's On: Calendar of Events
Nuclear Wordsearch
Tuesday,
6 May 2008 (No. 6) Discussion
of a Middle East NWFZ: Dialogue of the Deaf
Solving global warming without nuclear power
Rendering the abolition of nuclear weapons credible News In
Brief
Verification of multilateral nuclear disarmament
The Middle East: Nuclear Future or Nuclear
Free?
Military Research
What’s on: Calendar of Events
Nuclear Worldsearch
Wednesday,
7 May 2008 (No. 7) Article
IV and the nuclear fuel cycle
The Great Turning: Time for a transformation in
the energy paradigm
67,248 Italians propose new law declaring Italy
a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
Nuclear Weapons Operational Readiness: A Hot-Button
Issue
Environmental Aspects of Nuclear Energy News in
Brief
Who's Who? An Interview with Ambassador Jürg
Streuli of Switzerland
Women and the nuclear abolition movement in Japan
What's On: Today's Calendar of Events
Nuclear Crossword
Friday, 9 May 2008 (no meetings on Thursday, no new
edition)
Final Edition
Final
Edition 2008 (No. 9) Looking
ahead: Recommendations for the rest of the 2010 review cycle News in
Brief
What can NPT states realistically do today?
Negotiations on a nuclear weapon convention held
by European students!
Good Faith: A Fundamental Principle of International
Law
Global Article 9 Conference Statement towards
the NPT PrepCom
Working Paper Review #2
Blurring the Nuclear Threshold: US Strategic Command,
Space Domination, and the New Strategic Triad
Discussion paper: France, NATO, and nuclear disarmament
2008 NPT PrepCom: Substantive and Smooth, with
Hostilities Fizzing on the Tongue
Wednesday,
May 2, 2007 (No.3) "An
Agenda to Take Us Forward" Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security?
Running for Peace
Nuclear Power=Nuclear Weapons
A Revised Nuclear Weapons Convention
International Call on Governments to back sustainable
energy
Friday,
May 4, 2007 (No.5) "Today's
Menu"
Return to the International Court of Justice
Towards 2010
Fissile Materials: Definitions, detection, and hopefully
negotiations
Thursday,
May 10, 2007 (No.9) "Power
Politics or Cooperative Security?"
Diplomat and NGO Diaries
United States Disarmament Compliance: Fewer but Newer;
Nuclear Weapons Forever
Prepcom Delegates Show P6 Support
Nuclear Posture Review
Students Strike for Peace
Weapons in Space and the Disarmament/Non-proliferation
Regime
NATO's Nuclear Sharing: A cold war anachronism that
undermines the NPT
Valentines for Tlatelolco
Friday,
May 11, 2007 (No.10) "Shades
of Grey"
Inalienable Right? What's wrong with this picture?
Breaking the Chain
A Page from History? The first proposal for a Nuclear
Weapons Convention
Space Security and Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear Missile Testing Galore
Nuclear Crossword
What's On? Today's Calendar of Events
Final Edition
Final Edition
2007 (No. 11) "Finding
the Light" Execution
by Consensus:Assessing Compliance and the NPT Review Process Alice
in Wonderland Revisited: The 13 Practical Steps as “Suggestions”
Nuclear
War and its Consequences: Reparations (and a Little Justice)
for the People of Rongelap
Tuesday,
May 3, 2005 (No.2): "Aaaannnd...ACTION!"
New Disarmament Publications
Freeing the Middle East from WMD
Panel Spotlight: Rejecting Counterproliferation
What's On: Calendar of Events for Today
Panel Spotlight: A Middle Powers Strategy
May Day! Disarm!
Wednesday,
May 4, 2005 (No.3): "Unmasking
Success?"
IPPNW Brings the Reality of Nuclear Weapons
Home to NYers
International Wall of Law
A View from South Korea
What's On: Calendar of Events for Today
Hibakusha Tell the Tale
Who's Who: New Zealand's Ambassador Tim
Caughley
Thursday,
May 5, 2005 (No.4): "Proving
the Pessimists Wrong"
A Return to the World Court?: Lawyers Discuss
Options for Article VI Compliance
An NPT Compliant Alternative to Stockpile
Stewardship
What's On: Calendar of Events for Today
On the Nuclear Trail of Tears: The International
Peace Walk and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Friday,
May 6, 2005 (No.5): "At
What Cost Agreement?"
Mayors at the United Nations
What's On: Calendar of Events for Today
(and the weekend!)
Jozef Goldblat on the CTBT
The Other Radioactive Weapon
Comment on the Dutch Parliament
Atomic Art Exhibit
Greenpeace Fights NATO Nukes
Week Two
Monday,
May 9, 2005 (No.6): "'In
Light of' Consensus"
The NAPF Brings Us Back to Basics
What's On: Calendar of Events for Today
WSLF Sets the Record Straight on Stockpile
Stewardship
A Working Paper for a Nuclear Weapon-Free
World
Internal Radiation: Nano-sized particles
causing mega-size damage
Who's Who: France's Ambassaor Rivasseau
Tuesday,
May 10, 2005 (No.7): "Deciphering
Diplomacy"
NGO Panel Announces a Nuclear Free Germany
The Wars We Make
Australian Uranium: Feedstock for Proliferation
Challenging and Changing US Nuclear Policy
What's On: Calendar of Events for Today
Who's Who: Japan's Ambassador Mine
Thursday,
May 12, 2005 (No.9): "Now
THIS Is A Conference"- also translated
into French by ACDN
An Open Letter to the NPT Conference Secretariat
and States Parties
NWFZs: The Untold Success Story
A Mathematician's Take on the NPT
Making Connections Between Disarmament
and Conflict Prevention
What's On: Calendar of Events for Today
Friday,
May 13, 2005 (No.10): "Riddle
Me This"
A Permanent Verification Corps?
Film Screening: Genie in A Bottle
Korean Women Making Peace
Are You Ready to Join Us? Youth at the
RevCon
What's On: Calendar of Events for Today
Week Three
Monday,
May 16, 2005 (No.11): "The
Footnote Versus the Fuel Rod"
PSR Panel Features Rhodes and Graham
Promoting Global Wellness
Model Nuclear Inventory: New Publication from RCW
Who's Who: Mexico's Ambassador de Alba
NGOs and the Millennium+5 Summit
What's On: This Week's Calendar of Events
Wednesday,
May 18, 2005(No.13): "Hold
That Pessimism"
Advancing Transparency Through Disarmament
US Compensation for Nuclear Victims
Education, Peace Boat Style
Nuclear Psychology
What's On: Calendar of Events
Thursday,
May 19, 2005 (No.14): "The
Conference That Cried Wolf"
Who's Who: IPPNW's Ron McCoy
NPT Crossword!
Religious and Ethical Perspectives on Nuclear Doctrine
A Brave New World in 1984
What's On: Today and Tomorrow's Calendar of Events
Tuesday,
May 24, 2005 (No.17): "Bargaining
for Agreement"
War is Peace: NGO Rebuttal to the US
Megatons to Megawatts
Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
NPT Puzzler!
Youth Vitamins
What's On: Today's Calendar of Events
Wednesday,
May 25, 2005 (No.18): "Negotiate
This"
Peace Walk
Communities of Color Speak Out
Who's Who: Blanche Wiesen Cooke
Mayors and Parliamentarians
What's On: Today's Calendar of Events
Friday,
May 27, 2005 (No.20): "A
Passing Storm"
The Risks of Reprocessing
Rebus Puzzler
Who's Who: Sarah Estabrooks, Project Ploughshares
US Non-Paper on Abolition
First Committee Reporting Resource
What's On: Calendar of Events for Today
Final Edition
Final
Edition 2005 (No. 21): "A
Phoenix of Hope"
Spineless NPT Ends in a Whisper
Seeing the RevCon in the Rearview Mirror
NPT Gender Credentials
Just Say No!
Nuclear Theatre of the Absurd
Negotiating 101
US Hypocrisy
A Treaty Worth Fighting For
Their Children Are Our Children
Sunflowers Instead of Missiles
Youth Activism
10 Years of Mad Cowboy Nuclearism
On NGO Strategy
2004 Week 1
Monday,
April 26, 2004 (No.1):
"Defining Success"
Calendar of Events
Who's Who: Interview with Ambassador Wolfgang
Hoffman, Executive Secretary, CTBTO
"The NPT 2004: Testing the Limits"- Rebecca
Johnson, Acronym Institute
Eighteenth Anniversary of the Chernobyl
Disaster
Tuesday,
April 27, 2004 (No.2):
"Getting Right To It"
Calendar of Events for Today
"Spotlight on Aldermaston" -DiMcDonald,
NukeWatch
"Never Again"- Susi Snyder, WILPF
artwork by Haik Hoisington
Wednesday,
April 28, 2004 (No.3):
"Who's Missing the Mark?"
Calendar of Events for Today
"Nuclear Sharing Under the 'Special Relationship'
Umbrella"- Nigel Chamberlain, BASIC
Who's Who: Interview with John Loretz, IPPNW
"The Toxic Legacy of the Nuclear Age"- John
Loretz reports on the Abolition 2000 event
Pop Quiz: NGO or State Party?
Thursday,
April 29, 2004 (No.4):
"Non-Existing Issues Spark Non-Existent
Debate"
Calendar of Events for Today
Who's Who: Interview with Jennifer Nordstrom,
GAPW
"A UN Conference on Weapons of Mass Destruction
and Their Elimination"- Mohamed Shaker, ECFA
Panel Spotlight: Economy and Security- Jen
Geiger, WILPF US
Panel Spotlight: The Quest for Security-
John Loretz, IPPNW
Panel Spotlight: PSR on Counterproliferation-
Sarah Estabrooks, Project Ploughshares
Panel Spotlight: A Northeast Asia NWFZ-
Jennifer Nordstrom, GAPW
Friday,
April 30, 2004 (No.5):
"We Can't Hear You!"
Calendar of Events for Today
"Report from a Citizen Weapon Inspector"-
Carol Naughton, BASIC
Who's Who: Rodolfo Benitez Verson, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Cuba
Week 2
Monday,
May 3, 2004 (No.6):
"A Point of Order"
"Youth Caucus Therapy"
"Mother Earth On Her Death Bed"- Omar McCray,
SANITY
"NATO Nuclear Doctrine and the NPT"- Karel
Koster, PENN
Panel Spotlight: "Opposing Vertical Proliferation"-
April Stanley, WILPF UNO
"NPT- Now It's the People's Turn"- Emma
McGregor Mento, Abolition 2000
Calendar of Events for the Week
Panel Spotlight: "The WMD Are Right Here"-
Dulce Fernandes, WILPF UNO
Tuesday,
May 4, 2004 (No.7):
"A New Criticality"
Panel Spotlight: Nuclear Weapons and Preventing
War- Julika Erfurt, WILPF UNO
Resource Spotlight: banningthebomb.tv
"Aktion Volkerrecht"- International Law
Campaign
Calendar of Events for Today
Disarmament Crossword
CWI Authorization
Wednesday,
May 5, 2004 (No. 8):
"Playing Chess with Damocles"
Panel Spotlight: "The Current Status of
US Nuclear Weapons Complex: From designing to refining"-
Monika Szymurska, WILPF UNO
Panel Spotlight: "Rethinking the Fissban"-
Emma McGregor-Mento, Abolition 2000
Reaching Critical Finances
Canada Responds to PENN article
Calendar of Events for Today
Report Card for Japan- Keiko Nakamuro, Peace
Depot
Article VI reporting: Spotlight on NGO Shadow
Report
IEER Atomic Puzzler and Crossword Answers
Thursday,
May 6, 2004 (No.9):
"The Substance of Procedure"
"The So-Called 'U.S. Record of Compliance'-
Why the U.S. Numbers Game is Not Disarmament"- Andrew Lichterman
and Jacqueline Cabasso, WSLF
Calendar of Events for Today
"Nuclear Weapons and Preventing War"- Jennifer
Nordstrom, GAPW
Friday,
May 7, 2004 (No.10):
"Countdown"
"The Most Important Date in Nuclear History:
A.Q. Khan's Nuclear Lineage Lies in the Policies Begun
in Washington, DC, May 5, 1943" - Pamela
S. Meidell, Atomic Mirror
"The Elephant in the Room"- Alice Slater,
GRACE
Panel Spotlight: "What's Next for the CTBT?"
- Dulce Fernandes, WILPF UNO
Panel Spotlight: "Women and Weapons: A Paradigmatic
Shift"- Susi Snyder, WILPF UNO
"Keeping Heart in Hard Times"- Stephanie
Fraser, banningthebomb.tv
Final Edition
Final
Edition (No. 11):
"A Higher Wager"
"Confusion and Anger as NPT Meeting Closes
in New York"- Rebecca Johnson, Acronym Institute
Who's Who Profile: Dr. Kathleen Sullivan,
Educators for Social Responsibility
"From the Dark and Smoky UN Basement, to
the Hot and Dusty Nevada Desert: One Woman's Journey"- Susi
Snyder, WILPF UNO
"Grassroots Provide Support for Mayors"
- Julie Kramer, Press Hut Mutlangen
