Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit Vanessa Canola Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons James Luk Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons SCRAP Weapons Project Assistants Vanessa Canola and James Luk attended the G7 Youth Summit hosted in Hiroshima this year. Read about their experiences below: Vanessa’s Reflections 50 young leaders and activists, each contributing in their own way to raise …
Newsletter April 2023 April was a busy month here at SCRAP Weapons! Having carried out a round of successful consultations and discussions in Brussels, Geneva, London, New York, Vienna, Washington DC and at the G7 Youth Summit in Hiroshima, SCRAP Weapons has continued to pursue activating a Special Session on Disarmament (SSOD-IV) at the UN General Assembly, compiling a proposal of …
The Disarming of Iraq: What went wrong and what went right Henrietta Wilson Senior Analyst, SCRAP Weapons On the night of Sept. 25, 1991, Chief Inspector David Kay and his deputy, Robert Galluci, had a strange request for a group of Iraqis who were stopping them from leaving a car park. If you’re going to …
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Newsletter March 2023 With a successful hybrid conference, the launch of our podcast series, and publishing multiple opinion pieces on topics ranging from the military balance in the Taiwan Strait to the extent and reach of the military industrial complex, it has been a busy start of the year for SCRAP Weapons and it looks …
TICK TOCK on the Doomsday Clock Monalisa Hazarika Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons Former Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon’s ever-so-relevant words “The world is over-armed and peace is underfunded”, mirror the current stance of the impending doom that looms over humanity as we inch towards total annihilation. “90 seconds to midnight” on the Doomsday Clock uses the …
Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, Scrap Weapons The G20 response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and fears of nuclear annihilation was that ‘today’s era must not be of war.’ As such, we require a new political and technical strategy for arms control and disarmament. Just as at the bleakest moment of the Second World War, Franklin …
Taiwan Strait Military Balance Dr Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons James Luk Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Hugo Bainbridge graphic designer, SCRAP Weapons The recent U.S.-China balloon incident highlights Sino-U.S. mistrust regarding each nation’s capabilities. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, China has rapidly developed the “largest and most diverse” missile force in the world, with …
Russia pulls out of New START nuclear treaty- we’ve already seen how such agreements have limited aggression against Ukraine Dr Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons This article was originally published on The Conversation on 21st October 2022. Vladimir Putin’s decision to pull out of the New Start nuclear weapons treaty with the United States will have predictable responses. …
Pathway to Vishwa Guru: India and the G20 Monalisa Hazarika Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons The G20 grouping is one of the most influential intergovernmental forums where world leaders chalk out strategies to address global economic and financial issues with policy coordinators, combining the joint efforts of some of the most advanced and emerging economies. Amidst …
Zero Missiles: building on the precedent that helps Ukraine today Dr Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons This article was originally published on europeanleadershipnetwork.org on 21st October 2022. It may not be the first thing you might think about when seeing Russian missile bombardments of Ukraine, but a disarmament treaty has denied Russia thousands more missiles that …
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