Eliminating Nuclear Weapons Conference

National Consultative Committee on Disarmament Conference 2009

Eliminating Nuclear Weapons
No Longer The Impossible Dream
24 and 25 May 2009, in Wellington

Speeches and Presentations: are being added to this page as they are received

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Speeches and Presentations

Rhetoric to Reality: looking forward to 2010 and beyond; Comments on the 2009 Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, Natasha Barnes - speech notes - power point

Background reading

2009 - Year for détente, disarmament and non-proliferation, Hans Blix, 9 December 2008

A Nordic Initiative for Nuclear Abolition, Director General Steffen Kongstad, 15 April 2009

An Ottawa/Oslo Process for nuclear weapons and other grassroots initiatives, Summary of the presentation by Mary Wareham and Edwina Hughes, NCCD Seminar 'Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: Exploring the Next Steps', Wellington, 18 October 2008

An SOS for the Human Race Securing Our Survival - The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons (ICAN) Summary Paper

Getting to Zero: An Interview With International Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Commission Co-Chair Gareth Evans, Arms Control Today, April 2009

Imagine there's no bomb, Joint statement of Malcolm Fraser (former Prime Minister), Sir Gustav Nossal (research scientist), Dr Barry Jones (former Labor government minister), General Peter Gration (former Defence Force chief), Lieutenant-General John Sanderson (former chief of the army and former governor of South Australia), and Assistant Professor Tilman Ruff (National president of the Medical Association for Prevention of War Australia, 8 April 2009

NPT PrepCom: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Third Preparatory Committee meeting, 4 to 15 May 2009
Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities, Stephen I. Schwartz, Deepti Choubey, January 2009

Response to President Obama’s Prague Speech: Bridging the Vision and the Corridors of Power, Judge C G Weeramantry, 20 April 2009

The Future of Nuclear Arms: A World United and Divided by Zero, Randy Rydell, Arms Control Today, April 2009

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol: A protocol complementary to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons for achieving a nuclear-weapon-free world by the year 2020, Mayors for Peace, launched 29 April 2008

The United Nations and security in a nuclear-weapon-free world, UN Secretary-General's five point proposal on nuclear disarmament, Ban Ki-moon, 24 October 2008