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  • 2021: Arctic Peace and Security Policy Issues

     

  • Arctic NWFZ Documents

    Arctic NWFZ Author An Arctic-Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone: Circumpolar Non-Nuclear Weapons States Must Originate Negotiation [PDF] Adele Buckley, Michigan State International Law Review The Problem of Nuclear Weapons and What To Do About It. [PDF] Ramesh Thakur United Nations’ Third Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of…

  • 2017: China, Nuclear Weapons, and Arctic Maritime Security

  • 2020: Moving forward with arms control and disarmament

  • 2019: Cooperation toward Nuclear Weapon Free Zones

  • 2017: NWFZ: proposing Canada’s role in this novel variation

  • Arctic Peace and Security Policy Issues

    Input re Feb 7, 2018 NGO Roundtable Discussion, Ottawa- ARCTIC POLICY FRAMEWORK Arctic Peace and Security Policy Issues  By Adele Buckley, Canadian Pugwash Group Project Leader – Proposals for a Nuclear Weapon Free Arctic  THIS DOCUMENT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA – FEBRUARY 27 2018 PART ONE  6. The Arctic in a global…

  • Law Review

    January 2014 – A new paper by Adele Buckley, Michigan State International Law Review,  – An Arctic-Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone: Circumpolar Non-Nuclear Weapons States Must Originate Negotiation.  [PDF]

  • Nuclear Weapons Past and Present (2014)

    March 2014 –Canadian Pugwash members speak at “Nuclear Weapons Past and Present”, the Bill Graham Centre, UofT Ramesh Thakur -The Problem of Nuclear Weapons and What To Do About It. [PDF] Adele Buckley – Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, Current Proposals [PDF] Ernie Regehr – Situational maritime awareness toward an Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

  • 2014 NPT Preparatory Committee

    April-May 2014 – Canadian Pugwash Panel Discussions the United Nations’ Third Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [PDF] Arctic: an essential Nuclear Weapon Free Zone NATO and the NPT: Implications of Alliance Membership for the NP New Ideas and Initiatives

  • Ernie Regehr DISARMING ARCTIC SECURITY, for the Simons Foundation

    2013 – Ernie Regehr DISARMING ARCTIC SECURITY, for the Simons Foundation   NATO and the Arctic [Read]   Missile Defence and the Arctic [Read]   Fighter aircraft and Arctic Sovereignity [Read]   Canada-US Military Cooperation in the Arctic: Bilateralism or Multilateralism? [Read]   Are Russian nuclear weapons on the rise in the Arctic? [Read]

  • The (Russian) Arctic is open for business

     Michael Byers (The Globe and Mail – Aug. 12, 2013)   [Read article]

  • Ernie Regehr DISARMING ARCTIC SECURITY, for the Simons Foundation

      NATO and the Arctic [Read]   Missile Defence and the Arctic [Read]   Fighter aircraft and Arctic Sovereignity [Read]   Canada-US Military Cooperation in the Arctic: Bilateralism or Multilateralism? [Read]   Are Russian nuclear weapons on the rise in the Arctic? [Read]  

  • Policy Imperatives for an Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone

    DEDICATION To the memory of Michael Wallace, who was a member of the Board of Canadian Pugwash. He was a Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, and his expert knowledge of international security and military matters was vast and often used on our behalf. His paper, with Steven Staples, gave us…

  • Buckley – NNWS could lead the way to an ANWFZ

    MSU College of Law 2013 International Symposium An Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Treaty by Non-Nuclear Weapon States Would Model Cooperation and Press Nuclear Weapon States to New Strategy   BY Adele Buckley, Canadian Pugwash, Pugwash Council     Battle for the North:  All Quiet on the Arctic Front? [Read Article] and [See Slide Presentation]

  • Now is the time (2)

  • Now is the time

    Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (NWFZ) We propose that that NOW IS THE TIME for all nuclear and Arctic non-nuclear governments to take active steps toward an ARCTIC NUCLEAR WEAPON FREE ZONE. We see this as one of the important confidence building steps toward a world free of nuclear weapons. The purpose of this website is to…

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    The requested file was not found. Many articles, once found on this site, can now be found at the original source site.  In other words, we have removed duplicate articles.  Most removed articles can be found by visiting the discussion group. Try our sitemap Visit the discussion group for other articles.

  • An Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone – Needed Now

    Oct 2012 – An Artic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Needed Now: Cadmus, www.cadmusjournal.org, by Adele Buckley, Physicist, Engineer and Environmental Scientist; Member of Pugwash Council. Read [pdf]

  • Other NWFZ Documents

    Listed at various sites Author Disarmament Forum, Nuclear-weapon-free zones, 2011 no. 2. United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research Africa as a nuclear-weapon-free zone Ernie Regehr ASEAN Schedules Nuke-Free Zone Talks With Nuclear Powers   Towards action on the Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Ernie Regehr A Much-Needed Anti-Nuclear Cheer Ramesh Thakur Message on African…

  • NE Asia NWFZ Documents

    Listed at Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability (http://www.nautilus.org/). Author Nuclear and Conventional Extended Deterrence in a Northeast Asian Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone – Summary Report of the East Asia Nuclear Security Workshop By Binoy Kampark, Peter Hayes and Richard Tanter January 31, 2012 A Proposal for a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in Northeast Asia Morton H.…

  • Links

    Government Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Department of National Defence Canada Department of Defense USA Ministry of Defense Denmark Ministry of Defense Finland Ministry of Defense Norway Ministry of Defense Sweden Ministry of Defense Russia Ministry of Defense UK Defense Alliance NORAD NATO Intergovernmental Fora Arctic Council Nordic Council United Nations Office…

  • United Nations and NWFZs

    The United Nations: a very important actor in NWFZ creation From the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs General Assembly resolution 3472 B (1975) defines a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone as “any zone recognized as such by the General Assembly of the United Nations, which any group of States, in the free exercises of their sovereignty, has…

  • Establishing a Nuclear-Weapons-Free zone

    PUGWASH, PARLIAMENTARIANS AND POLITICAL WILL Advancing the Agenda for Abolition Thinkers Lodge, Pugwash, NS, Canada, July 11, 2008, by Dr. Adele Buckley, Canadian Pugwash Group, Les Conférences Pugwash Canada The polar ice that envelops the high Arctic is melting at a rate even faster than anticipated by climate change scientists. Providing an equitable regime to…

  • About this Project

    In 2007, Jayantha Dhanapala, President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, asked the Canadian Pugwash Group to consider the problem of nuclear weapons in the Arctic, and to put forward potential solutions. The result was the statement “Canadian Pugwash Call for an Arctic Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone” (24 August 2007), which said: the…

  • Purpose

    The purpose of this website is to encourage commencement of the process leading to an Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone. By providing new papers and commentary, together with copies of articles published elsewhere, we intend to enable both web-based and external discussion. The context and background is provided by relevant articles on other nuclear-weapon-free zones and Arctic…

  • Statement

    Protect the Arctic by a Treaty establishing an Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone read pdf The icy high Arctic, isolated and inaccessible, is melting rapidly. Within a decade or two, in the summer months, goods will be carried in active shipping lanes using shorter routes through the ice-free waters of the Arctic Ocean. These changes are creating…

  • A Nordic-Canadian nuclear weapon free zone

    read article by Thomas Axworthy

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