Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will attend the third Preparatory Committee session for the 2026 Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to be held in New York from April 28. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/11/japan/politics/iwaya-npt-meeting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #takeshiiwaya #npt #nuclearweapons

Experts from Japan and abroad kicked off two days of talks in Tokyo in preparation for next year's review conference for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/30/japan/politics/nuclear-nonproliferation-treaty-review-proposals/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nuclearweapons #npt #tpnw

https://www.alojapan.com/1231838/experts-start-talks-on-proposals-for-npt-review-conference/ Experts start talks on proposals for NPT review conference #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #news #npt #NuclearWeapons #TPNW Experts from Japan and abroad kicked off two days of talks in Tokyo on Sunday, aiming to compile a set of proposals that will help realize a world without nuclear weapons in the run-up to next year’s review conference for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT. The sixth meeting of the International Group of Eminent…

With #Poland actively considering not just an exit from the convention on land mines use but surprisingly the acquisition of nuclear weapons recently hiting the news circuit, now #Japan is also open to the idea of developing nuclear weapons. Both of these surprising developments have beend the result of the #TrumpAdministration ‘s recent questionable foreign policy shifts.

So much for the #NPT . No sooner is the US nuclear umbrella put into question we have one country which remembers WWII and the following Soviet occupation and another constitutionally prohibited from fielding any offensive military, both exhibiting fear and clutching at any means to safeguard their population and sovereignty from neighbouring aggression.

Teetering on the edge, that’s where we’re at…

Qatar has called for intensified international efforts to bring all Israeli nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and for Israel to join the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) treaty.

Al Hammadi pointed out that all Middle Eastern countries, except Israel, are parties to the NPT and have effective safeguard agreements with the agency.

#Israel
#IAEA
#NPT
#NuclearWeapons

A helpful thread about Israel's nuclear arsenal that imperialists (all of them) refuse to speak about. Interesting.
#IsraelTerroristState #USpol #nixon #kennedy #France #NPT #nuclear #Clinton #Obama #terrorism
via @quarkrotto https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1890418517830209856.html

AUKUS -"This is the worst deal ever done by a sovereign Australian government"

“There was a degree of subservience – that that was the price you had to pay. Now, that has been taken to a new dangerous, illogical and expensive extreme with the [$350bn-plus] Aukus deal which both governments bought into, Morrison to begin with and then the current Labor government. I’m on a unity ticket with Bob Carr and Paul Keating. This is the worst deal that we’ve ever seen done by a sovereign Australian government.” Peter Garrett
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/feb/07/peter-garrett-this-is-the-worst-deal-ever-done-by-a-sovereign-australian-government

Australia Is a Subimperial Enforcer of the US-led Order, Clinton Fernandes
"AUKUS makes Australia effectively undefendable, except in the context of a US-UK military strategy."
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https://jacobin.com/2022/11/clinton-fernandes-interview-australia-us-imperialism-sovereignty-capital
#Australia #AUKUS #Pacific #SubimperialPower #subservience #sovereignty #nuclear #NuclearNonproliferationTreaty #NPT #NuclearWeapons #NuclearWaste #RadioactiveWaste

My latest:
This time with Ambassador Ali Soltanieh, Director of the VIIMES Institute and nuclear scientist on nuclear energy, nuclear war, non proliferation treaty, #Iran and many more.

#npt #nuclearthreat #nuclearwar #nuclearemergy #UN

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4-u2lX7yhmA

Ukraine Daily summary - Friday, December 6 2024

https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20Friday,%20December%206%202024/

Unconfirmed: Iranian government have sent a message to Biden administration and #IAEA that if any Iranian nuclear facility is attacked by Israel, they will remove their #NPT signature and stop cooperating with the #UN and #EU and will reserve it's right to take all necessary measures to defend their country against nuclear armed "Zionist entity" .

This comes after a group of hardline members of Iranian parliament (Majles) signed a letter to #Khamenei (who is the spiritual leader and head of Iranian defense forces) to reverse his #Fatwa about illegality of nuclear weapons in Islam and allow the scientists of armed forces to develop a nuclear weapon.

A fatwa by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, against the acquisition, development and use of nuclear weapons[1] dates back to the mid-1990s.[2] The first public announcement is reported to have occurred in October 2003, followed by an official statement at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna in August 2005.
Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kh…

The fatwa was not directly about nuclear weapons, but any form of WMD, production, storage and use of such weapons were declared "Haram", but it also said that in case the country was subjected to such weapons, they will have to permission to use them against "legitimate" targets.

The issue was clarified officially on the wwb site of Khamenei:
english.khamenei.ir/news/8398/…

In our opinion, in addition to nuclear weapons, all other kinds of weapons of mass destruction – including chemical and biological weapons - are considered to be a serious threat against humanity as well. Having been the victim of chemical weapons, the Iranian nation feels even more than other nations the danger of producing and storing such weapons. Therefore, the nation is ready to use all its resources in the effort to confront them. We consider the use of these weapons to be religiously forbidden, and we believe the effort to immunize all human beings from this grave tragedy is everyone’s responsibility.

#Iran #Israel #Biden #NuclearWeapon #WMD #USpolitics #Military

@palestine @israel @lebanon

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"#Israel continues to maintain its long-standing policy of #nuclear opacity: it neither officially confirms nor denies that it possesses #NuclearWeapons. In December 2014 the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution on #NuclearProliferation risks in the #MiddleEast that urged Israel to renounce the possession of nuclear weapons, accede to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Non-Proliferation Treaty, #NPT) ‘without further delay’ and place all of its nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA) comprehensive safeguards.

"It is estimated that Israel has approximately 80 nuclear weapons. Of these, approximately 30 are gravity bombs for delivery by aircraft. The remaining 50 weapons are for delivery by #JerichoII medium-range ballistic missiles, which are believed to be based with their mobile launchers in caves at a military base east of #Jerusalem. The operational status of a new #JerichoIII intermediate-range #BallisticMissile is unknown. In 2013 Israel conducted a launching test of a ‘rocket propulsion system’, which appeared to be for a Jericho III missile."

https://www.sipri.org/research/armaments-and-disarmament/nuclear-weapons/world-nuclear-forces/israel

As Hiroshima marks the 79th anniversary of the dropping of the A-bomb, the world is still far from abolishing nuclear weapons as nonproliferation treaties have crumbled. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/08/05/japan/hiroshima-watch-nuclear-disarmament-obstacles/ #commentary #japan #hiroshima #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #npt #wwii #defense #us #china #russia

@micchiato OFC it is.

Strictly speaking, the #UK & #USA would be actually in a bind to have #BootsOnTheGround as per #BudapestMemorandum.

This is why I'd not be surprised if #Ukraine would quit the #NPT unless becoming a full #EU & #NATO member and having #Pershing-2 Rockets stationed on it's soil for protection instead...

Experts from around the globe ended their two-day meeting in Yokohama this week with a call for dialogue on the impact of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies on nuclear disarmament. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/23/japan/yokohama-nuclear-arms-reduction-meet-ends/ #japan #nuclearweapons #npt #yokohama #foreignministry

Experts in Yokohama kicked off discussions about nuclear arms reduction, focusing the impact of AI amid global tensions and technological risks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/21/japan/yokohama-nuclear-arms-reduction-meet/ #japan #nuclearweapons #npt #yokokamikawa

This is the freaking nightmare scenario that Netanyahu haa been working 24/7 to achieve.

The moment IRI decides to leave NPT and blocks the IAEA, the whole world go into an even crazier frenzy about it with Israel being the loudest, bit no one will ever mention that israel NEVER signed the #NPT. They refuse to allow IAEA inspectors in or declare how many nuclear weapons they have.

Bot to forget that Israel was caught by #IAEA helping the former south African government under apartheid regime which they volunteerly abandoned and destroyed, but no one did anything to punish the Israeli government.

#History #Iran #Israel #NuclearWeapons #SouthAfrica

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