Nuclear Disarmament Highlights

The Simons Foundation Canada is pleased to share this article by Rob van Riet highlighting the way in which terminology skews the debate on nuclear weapons.

Visit the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) for this statement by Chair, the Hon. Gareth Evans, AC, QC, responding to the UK’s announcement to increase its nuclear warheads. As a recipient of The Simons Foundation Award for Distinguished Global Leadership in the Service of Peace and Disarmament, Prof. Evans is one of The Simons Foundation Canada's Peace Shapers

Visit The Hill Times at the link below for this opinion by Professor M.V. Ramana, the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at The University of British Columbia's School for Public Policy and Global Affairs.

Visit The Globe and Mail at the link below for this Opinion contribution by The Hon. Douglas Roche O.C., a Peace Leader at The Simons Foundation Canada.

Click here for the statement by Derek Johnson, chief executive officer of the international Global Zero movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons, in response to President Joe Biden's offer to President Vladimir Putin of a full five-year extension of the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between Russia and the United States. The New START treaty, which limits both countries to no more than 1,550 strategic offensively deployed nuclear weapons each, will expire February 5, 2021 without mutual agreement to extend.

Visit The Hill Times for this commentary by The Hon. Douglas Roche O.C., a Peace Leader at The Simons Foundation Canada, about the January 22nd Entry into Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), including NATO’s attitude toward the Treaty and the growing support for the Treaty in Canada.

We are pleased to share the following two commentaries by Paul Meyer on how the "nuclear umbrella" allies are responding to the challenge to their policies represented by the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), including a possible route Canada might take to permit eventual accession to the ban treaty.

The Simons Foundation Canada is pleased to share the following invitation to join Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (CNWC) for their "Nuclear Disarmament in a World Emergency: Canada’s Responsibilities" online seminar series.  See the following for more information and to register. 

Visit Inter Press Service News Agency at the link below for this commentary on the recent Entry into Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) by The Simons Foundation's Fellow, Dr. John Burroughs.