#Disarmament

BWC Implementation Support Unit

#OnThisDay in 1972 the #BiologicalWeaponsConvention was opened for signature at ceremonies in London, Moscow and Washington DC #OTD #1972BWC The Convention had been negotiated in Geneva, Switzerland, within the Eighteen

🇨🇦Canada First🇨🇦#PPC “Grizzly Patriot”

1) So, @CCFR_CCDAF hosted a protest yesterday in Ottawa! Great attendance, solid numbers. The CCFR are a lobby group for the @CPC_HQ claiming to represent gun owners, while working to

The #nuclearban treaty is close to entering into force, so let's predict what the nuclear armed states will say in their joint statement on that day. I think it will

OK gather round kids I’m going to tell you a true chemistry lab story about how a sex toy became a key part of a nuclear disarmament program. So I

Fiji's parliament just unanimously approved ratification of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Vinaka vakalevu! @fijiparliament #nuclearban To finalise the ratification process, the Fijian government will deposit

Please no comparisons to George Lansbury. He was a pacifist but a firm patriot and such naïveté feels more justified in the interwar period. Even then, when he saw he

Martin Docherty-Hughes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈

MartinJDocherty

Seems there’s been something of an (intentional?) misunderstanding of what I thought was a clearly stated @theSNP position on #nuclearweapons & #armscontrol in the @SNP_SITW team’s submission to the #IntegratedReview,

Mines Action Canada

It's #InternationalYouthDay!We are thrilled to support youth leadership on disarmament. So let's look at some of the ways youth are making waves in disarmament. The Mine Action Fellows made a

Today marks three quarters of a century since the atomic annihilation of #Hiroshima by US forces and the enormous #humanitarian consequences that ensued. Below we share a number of articles

The problem with the both sides-isms is that they draw false equivalencies between one side that is trying to end the republic and the other side that is trying to

The Cuban Window

Int'l treaty honors #FidelCastro, says Foreign Ministerhttps://thecubanwindow.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/intl-treaty-honors-fidel-castro-says-foreign-minister-via-prensa-latina/ The entry into force of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nu

Sally Mansfield

AustraliaUN_GVA

Ten years ago today we began celebrating International Girls In ICT Day. While we've come a long way, we still have work to do to bridge the digital divide.More #GirlsinICT

Andrea Stricker

The executive summary of the State Department's annual arms control compliance report is out. A few key highlights: https://www.state.gov/2020-adherence-to-and-compliance-with-arms-control-nonproliferation-and-disarmament-agreements-and-commitmen

Time for real talk about "Realism".This is the first of multiple threads on how I teach "Realism" to my Intro to International Relations students. The goal is to #KeepRealismReal[THREAD] When

1/ Yesterday the Pentagon released a new Defense Space Strategy (DSS) that is meant to guide national security space decisions for the next decade (https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jun/17/2002317391/-1/-1/1/2020_DEFENSE_SPACE_STRATEGY_SUMMARY

Maaike Verbruggen

I love the Nobel Peace Prize circus although I get the impression I'm increasingly alone in this amongst critical scholars so let me make a pitch for it.It's not just