Nuclear Non-Proliferation

The Doomsday Clock is at 5 minutes to midnight. 

The Mayors for Peace campaign to strengthen the NPT has been supported by many mayors around the world. All Mayors in Tasmania have been invited to sign a statement. Ask your local Mayor about it.

Abolition 2000 

A key network of over 2000 organisations in 90 countries working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. Abolition now! is their focus on the crucial Non Proliferation Treaty review conference in May 2005. 

Australia's Non-proliferation policy October 2005.

This policy emphasises the problems of nuclear weapons proliferation, without also addressing the associated requirements of nuclear disarmament. 

Australia's uranium enrichment research - Notes from a talk 27 April 2005.

Australian company Silex is working on uranium enrichment as part of its research on laser enrichment of elements. A Greenpeace PDF file report of 30 November 2004 evaluates the activity. 

A World Free of Nuclear Weapons - op ed in the Wall St Journal, 4 Jan 2007, P15

Four former senior US defence officials have called for urgent and concerted action to rid the world of nuclear weapons: George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn  

City of Hiroshima 

presents its story of the dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945. It took only one US weapon of mass destruction.
Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, April 30 2003, made an Urgent Call for the Total abolition of Nuclear Weapons. He initiated the Mayors for Peace campaign to ban nuclear weapons. His 6 August 2006 Statement.

ElBaradei - Toward a nuclear Abyss. September 2007. 3-part interview. 

"... in order to seem credible to the nuclear wannabe states we must demand steps toward nuclear disarmament from those who have nuclear weapons -- an obligation that is stipulated in the non-proliferation treaty but is not complied with. I deplore this two-faced approach. If practically all nuclear powers are modernizing instead of reducing their arsenals, how can we argue with the non-nuclear states?" 
"We must never forget that the dispute over nuclear weapons is not a game, but deadly serious. It can easily lead to a catastrophe and jeopardize the basis for the existence of all mankind. We need an international system of security guarantees, in which no country depends on nuclear weapons. We cannot wait any longer for this to happen. Not a day longer." 

ElBaradei (IAEA Head) November 2004 evaluation 

A speech at Stanford university shows need for non-proliferation. See also his Seven steps to world security. 

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation 

Many resources, and an informative e-newsletter The Sunflower. 

Nuclear Disarmament - an analysis May 2005, from Dr Sue Wareham MAPW. 

There will not be non-proliferation without nuclear disarmament. 

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 

The Federation of American Scientists has a useful description of the NPT.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has pages on non-proliferation.
Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, April 30 2003, made an Urgent Call for the Total abolition of Nuclear Weapons. He initiated the Mayors for Peace campaign to ban nuclear weapons. 
The United States has lead the process of destruction of this crucial regime. 
Take action NOW to influence the review in May 2005. (The May 2004 preparation conference for the next NPT conference ended with NO outcome, NO agenda for 2005, NO agreement on a report, NO recommendations.) MAPW is leading the campaign in Australia and has reports on the Review process. . 
Briefings on the NPT are given by Oxford Research Group and the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) (a project to ensure that the 2005 Review Conference will strengthen both the NPT and the State Parties' commitment to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament). 

Nuclear Power Fact file 

Some of its informative posters relate to the proliferation dangers associated with nuclear power. They can be downloaded as PDF files. 

Nuclear Weapons Abolition Treaty 

A model proposal and the reasons for it. 

Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament 

A forum for parliamentarians to share resources and information, develop cooperative strategies and engage in nuclear disarmament issues, initiatives and arenas. 

Reaching Critical Will 

Another key nuclear disarmament resource. 

Read about Nuclear Weapons and disarmament 

A Web site designed for students and others wanting information.
There is a useful PDF community resource kit from Canadian PGS. 

Seven steps to world security - by Mohamed ElBaradei, February 2, 2005 

The NPT Review Conference, May 2005, brings world leaders together to focus on combating the threat of nuclear weapons. 

The end of the Cold War has been postponed: The US and Russia were putting their nuclear weapons into storage. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  Now they are developing new ones. Russia October 2007. 

The US Nuclear Posture Review (January 2002) spells out a strategy which incorporates nuclear capability into conventional war planning.