Ghana has renewed calls for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons, urging African states and the international community ...

Paris and London should join negotiations on nuclear disarmament, and not in the indefinite future, but as things move ...

The multilateral Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is still in place, to which 190 countries are signatories. The ...

The death of the last treaty between Russia and the U.S. that limited the size of nuclear arsenals may spark a new arms race, says a former security council director.

By James Amoh JuniorAfrican states on Tuesday renewed calls for the universal adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No country other than North Korea is known to have conducted a nuclear detonation for decades (File: EPA-EFE/KCNA) China has ...

The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...

Tensions are growing in east Asia. The threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan persists and, in recent weeks, North Korea has been testing its long-range missile capabilities. Russia’s reorientation of ...

North Korea is continuing to produce enough nuclear material to make up to 20 new nuclear weapons each year, President Lee ...

Global Memos are briefs by the Council of Councils that gather opinions from global experts on major international developments. After a month of negotiations, the tenth review conference (RevCon) of ...