Pakistan blocking FMCT negotiations: US

Daily News on Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Weapons, Terrorism and Related Issues April 9, 2013 By Elaine M. Grossman WASHINGTON -- Pakistan is pressing the United States and other key member nations of the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament to ...

As delegates from 189 countries gathered in Geneva to prepare for the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, due in 2015, I was reminded of my first official briefing, as a young Australian minister back in the early 1980s, ...

North Korea's bellicose nuclear rhetoric has put sharply into the focus how some states are able to put world peace and security at risk and, as a result of their recent actions, this issue has moved to the top of the international agenda. The ...

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) comprising 11 articles has basically three components: Non-proliferation, disarmament and the right of non-nuclear states to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. In the domain of nuclear ...

Radioactive traces of North Korea's latest nuclear test appear to have been detected for the first time, but the exact material found in the leak remains uncertain according to a global monitoring body. Pyongyang conducted its third nuclear test on ...

In recent decades, the U.S. government and news media have treated international law as a matter of convenience and hypocrisy, applying rules self-righteously when theyre useful and ignoring themwhena hindrance. The dispute over Iran's nuclear ...

2015 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons Remarks Thomas M. Countryman Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation U.S. Statement on NPT Regional Issues: ...

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, addressed a lunchtime seminar at the U.N. on Wednesday about exploring avenues to address the stalemate in the Conference on Disarmament on. The prolonged stalemate in the Conference on ...

The European Union foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, left, and Iran's chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, pose for the media before their meeting in Baghdad on May 23, 2012. — Reuters/Thaier al-Sudani A reset could include giving Iran what it ...