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Alarming trends in nuclear material trafficking highlight urgent security gaps

·March 2, 2025·1 min read

New data released on Friday from the UN-backed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reveals that while the overall number remains consistent with previous years, the continued incidents of trafficking and radioactive contamination cases raises concerns over nuclear security. Three of the reported cases were directly linked to trafficking or malicious...

Nuclear weapons are ‘one-way road to annihilation’ warns Guterres

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·February 25, 2025·1 min read

“The nuclear option is not an option at all,” he said, addressing the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. “It is a one-way road to annihilation. We need to avoid this dead-end at all costs.” Arms race spreading to space Mr. Guterres warned delegates of heightened global security concerns, noting...

Amid ‘clear’ threat of nuclear war, Guterres tells Security Council multilateral off-ramp is essential

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·February 18, 2025·8 min read

The ministerial-level meeting was convened by China, which holds the rotating Council presidency this month, as the UN prepares to mark its 80th anniversary later this year. UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the debate emphasizing that “global solidarity and solutions are needed more than ever” as the climate crisis rages...

DPR Korea’s nuclear quest thwarts disarmament efforts, Security Council hears

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·January 9, 2025·2 min read

Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for peacebuilding and political affairs, briefed ambassadors two days after the DPRK, commonly known as North Korea, fired off what it described as a new type of intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile (IRBM) loaded with a hypersonic glide vehicle. He cited an official statement from Pyongyang which...

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy system risks nuclear disaster: rights experts

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·November 26, 2024·2 min read

Their warning comes amid growing international concern about the vulnerability of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities which rely on a stable power grid to maintain critical safety systems. “The latest large-scale Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s electricity system has led to further significant damage to electric substations that are essential to the...

Ukraine’s nuclear security situation ‘highly challenging’, warns UN atomic watchdog

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·November 7, 2024·2 min read

Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) – which is also Europe’s biggest nuclear energy facility – has been under Russian control since shortly after it launched a full-scale military campaign in February 2022. In recent days, an IAEA expert team crossed the frontline to replace colleagues at the Zaporizhzhya plant who...

UN rights council examines nuclear legacy consequences in the Marshall Islands

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·October 5, 2024·2 min read

Research conducted by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, revealed that 67 nuclear tests performed between 1946 and 1958 by the United States Government in the Marshall Islands left communities displaced and contributed to radioactive land and sea pollution. “The nuclear legacy casts a long shadow across generations and the...

Governments urged to ‘stop gambling with humanity’s future’ and eliminate nuclear weapons

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·September 27, 2024·5 min read

The High-Level Meeting was held to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, observed annually on 26 September. “There should be no place for these devices of death in our world,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Nuclear ‘spectre’ looming He warned, however, that “not since the...

Effort to restart Iran nuclear deal ‘at a standstill’ Security Council hears

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·December 26, 2023·3 min read

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed in 2015 lays out the rules for monitoring Iran’s domestic nuclear programme and paved the way for US sanctions to be lifted. It was agreed by Iran, the five permanent members of the Council (China, France, Russia the United Kingdom and the...

World News in Brief: Wave of ‘fear and dread’ in Ukraine, UN expert slams Navalny disappearance, youth leaders for nuclear disarmament meet

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·December 19, 2023·3 min read

That’s according to UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Regional Director Regina De Dominicis who said in a statement on Monday that bombardment was “particularly unrelenting” in the east and south of the country. The UNICEF official said the past week provided a concerning trend with an increase in ballistic missiles and...

World News in Brief: Ukraine nuclear plant update, Sudan health crisis, reproductive rights

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·September 25, 2023·2 min read

Addressing the opening of the IAEA’s General Conference in Vienna on Monday, Mr. Grossi said that 53 missions mobilizing more than 100 agency staff have been deployed as part of a continued presence inside Ukraine’s five nuclear power plants. These include the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, or ZNPP, on the...

UN appeals for nuclear test ban amid ‘alarming rise in global mistrust’

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·August 30, 2023·2 min read

In his message marking the International Day against Nuclear Tests, Secretary-General António Guterres appealed for key countries to ratify the international treaty that bans experiments for both peaceful and military purposes. ‘Recipe for annihilation’ “This year, we face an alarming rise in global mistrust and division,” he said. “At a...