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EDMS: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty & NPT
EDM 641 COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY (02.02.05)
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Josef Rotblat- 1908-2005
a tribute by Andy Oppenheimer
Professor Josef Rotblat, the renowned physicist who co-founded the Pugwash Movement, has died in London aged 96..
He will be remembered primarily for being the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project before its deadly culmination. . -
Manifesto for a nuclear disarmament agenda
The Nuclear Information Service calls upon the next British Government to:
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Hansard on NPT
7 April 2005 : Column 1769W
Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference
Mr. Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will attend the forthcoming Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. [221359]Mr. MacShane [holding answer 21 March 2005]: My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will not be present at the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference in May, but he has asked John Freeman (the UK Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament) to head the UK delegation.
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Lords: NPT; Nuclear Security; Pakistan/Iran
23 Mar 2005 : Column WA34
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Parliamentary question: North Korea: Nuclear Weapons
Lord Alton of Liverpool asked Her Majesty's Government:
What is their response to the admission by the government of North Korea that they possess nuclear weapons and to that Government's failure to re-engage in the six-nations talks.
The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean): My Lords, Her Majesty's Government continue to share the deep concern of the international community about the
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Parliamentary question: elimination of nuclear weapons
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Mr. Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the UK's undertaking to work towards the total elimination of British nuclear weapons. [221455] -
Parliamentary questions: Iran and NPT
Oral Answers to Questions
1 March 2005 : Column 797
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
The Secretary of State was asked-
Iran
1. Mr. Win Griffiths (Bridgend) (Lab): Whether he plans to visit Tehran in the next two months to discuss with the Iranian Government their adherence to international treaties and conventions. [218392] -
Lords: Nuclear material treaty obligations
Nuclear Energy: Fissile Materials
Lord Judd asked Her Majesty's Government:
What action they are taking to expedite and conclude negotiations to establish an arrangement based on Articles III and IX of the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) statute to enable the IAEA to act as guarantor for the supply of fissile material to civilian nuclear users. [HL1329]
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Lords: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: UK Compliance
Lord Judd asked Her Majesty's Government: What action they are taking together with other nuclear weapon states to honour their commitments under Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to move towards disarmament and to undertake specific measures to fulfil those commitments. [HL1289]
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Report of the 2004 Preparatory Committee Meeting for the 2005 Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference
by Di McDonald on behalf of the Nuclear Information Service and Nukewatch
I. Introduction
This report will be brief. More comprehensive 2004 NPT PrepCom. reports by experienced analysts are listed in Appendix 1.