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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo for efforts to rid world of nuclear weapons

CNN  —  The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its efforts “to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.” The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the group “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used …

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Russia vetoes US-backed UN resolution to ban nuclear weapons in space

CNN  —  Russia on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations resolution that proposed a ban on the use of nuclear weapons in outer space amid US intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia described the UN draft as a “dirty spectacle” and a “cynical …

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US intel officials: ‘No reason to doubt’ Putin claims Russia has moved nuclear weapons to Belarus

CNN  —  The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has “no reason to doubt” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that Russia has moved a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, senior DIA officials said on Friday. Putin said last month at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that “the first [Russian] nuclear warheads were delivered …

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