Nuclear disarmament Current Affairs, GK & News

September 26: International Day of Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Every year International Day of Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons is celebrated on September 26. Significance The day is important as it is based on the very basic reason the United Nations was established. The first resolution adopted by the UN was to achieve Global Nuclear Disarmament. In order to achieve this, the Atomic Energy ..

Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020

Category: Important Days & Events Current Affairs

Topics: International Day of Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons • Nuclear disarmament • Nuclear energy • Nuclear weapons • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

U.S. Russia talks on new Nuclear Disarmament Treaty begins without China

Delegations from the United States led by Marshall Billingslea and the Russian Delegation under their Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov begin their 2-day talks on 22nd June 2020 at the capital city of Austria, Vienna.  The talks for extending the nuclear disarmament treaty were in doubt over the last few months as the United States President ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020

Category: International Current Affairs

Topics: Austria • China • Donald Trump • Nuclear disarmament • START Treaty • United States • Vienna

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

March, 2020, marks 50 years since the introduction of the first global arms control treaty, the NPT, in 1970. About the Treaty The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is an international treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and its technologies in order to achieve nuclear disarmament. The treaty was opened for signature in 1968 and ..

Topics: NPT • Nuclear disarmament • Nuclear technology

2019 International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons is observed every year on 26th of September to provide an occasion for world community to reaffirm its commitment to global nuclear disarmament as high priority.  

Topics: Arms control • Disarmament • International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons • Law by country • Nuclear disarmament • Nuclear weapons • Nuclear-weapon-free zones • Politics by country • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

International Day Against Nuclear Tests

The International Day Against Nuclear Tests is observed every year on 29th of August for increasing awareness about the effects of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions and the need for their cessation as one of the means of achieving the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world.

Topics: Effects of nuclear explosions • International Day against Nuclear Tests • Law by country • Nuclear arms race • Nuclear disarmament • Nuclear explosion • Nuclear physics • Nuclear weapons • Nuclear weapons in popular culture • Nuclear weapons testing • Politics by country