Another push for the CTBT
Over the past two decades, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) has emerged as one of the top-tier international organisations with an impressive record of achievements. The International Monitoring…
Moving forward on the CTBT
This year marks the 18th anniversary of the rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) by the US Senate in October 1999. During these 18 years, repeated efforts have…
Right to peaceful defence
The US has once again imposed sanctions on Pakistan for its pursuit of long-range missile capabilities – a move that many observers see as yet another instance of Washington’s selective,…
Closer to midnight
So far, we have lived in an era of arms control and disarmament efforts made during the cold war – though we have taken this for granted. The international security…
World ‘better place’ 25 years after nuclear test-ban treaty
Twenty-five years after its adoption, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty has made the world a safer place, experts say, despite never being ratified and concerns over North Korea. The Americans conducted…
AUKUS in the Asia-Pacific
At the beginning of the United Nations General Assembly’s 76th session, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres rightly warned that a divided world is on the edge of an abyss. The…
Pakistan and the NSG
Pakistan has once again demanded access to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), during the recent Pak-US strategic talks, assuring that it will not be the first country in the region…
A world without nukes
At long last, the advocates of nuclear disarmament have a reason to be optimistic about their journey towards achieving the goals of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). The 2017 Nobel…
North Korea’s nuclear test
After conducting its sixth and significantly more powerful nuclear test, North Korea’s regime has left little doubt that it is on a collision course with the rest of the world.…
The threat remains
Something changed forever when the US dropped atomic weapons on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August 1945. On the 72nd anniversary of that fateful event, there is…
