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CTBTO Newsletter - Indonesian Ratification Of The CTBT
Index:
Indonesia prepares for CTBT ratification
Michael Douglas: Has your country ratified the CTBT?
Advanced Course on the CTBT kicks off
CTBTO cross-regional workshop in Istanbul
The CTBTO at the Jeju Disarmament Conference
Next major scientific conference in June 2013
Reagan & Reykjavik: by James Goodby and Nathan Pyle (The Hill)
Getting to yes - Interview with Rose Gottemoeller
Video: Next on-site inspection exercise authorized
2x VERTIC on CTBT verification
Haunted by past, Kazakhstan shuns nuclear bomb
Infamous Anniversaries in November
Indonesia prepares for CTBT
ratification
A large group of Indonesian
Parliamentarians visited the CTBTO on 22 November in
preparation of Indonedia’s ratification of the
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). The group
represented various political parties, all of which support
the step. CTBTO head Tibor Tóth and senior staff members
briefed the group on the ongoing build-up of the
verification regime. On 30 November, the Indonesian
Parliament’s Defense and Foreign Policy Commission
approved the national legislation for ratification of the
CTBT. Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa attended the meeting
(see Newsroom for details).
Read the highlight here.
Michael Douglas: Has your
country ratified the CTBT?
In a new series of TV
spots launched today, Oscar-winning actor and UN Messenger
of Peace, Michael Douglas, calls on all countries to support
the CTBT and help end nuclear testing, forever. In
particular, Douglas appeals to those countries that have not
yet ratified the Treaty to do so without delay, so that it
can enter into force and become global law.
View the news release here.
Advanced Course on the CTBT
kicks off
The Advanced Course on the CTBT
verification technologies started this week. The course,
taking place from 28 November to 9 December in Vienna, is
designed to train and educate a new generation of CTBT
experts. It can also be followed online via video-streaming.
Click image for introduction by CTBTO head Tibor
Tóth.
Read more here.
CTBTO cross-regional workshop
in Istanbul
Around 70 experts from 30 countries
participated in the cross-regional workshop Role of the CTBT
in regional and global security, co-organized by the
Government of Turkey and the CTBTO in Istanbul from 15 to 17
November.
Read the highlight here.
The CTBTO at the Jeju
Disarmament Conference
CTBTO head Tibor Tóth was one
of the keynote speakers at the 10th United Nations
Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues in
Jeju, Republic of Korea, from 7 to 8 November (click for
video message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon). Tóth
gave an interview to Yonhap News Agency.
Read the highlight here.
Next major scientific
conference in June 2013
The CTBTO is pleased to
announce that the next conference CTBT Science,
Technology and Innovation 2013 (STI2013) will be held in
Vienna in June 2013. The format will build on the previous
2011 scientific conference which welcomed 700 participants
from 100 countries.
Read the highlight here.
Reagan & Reykjavik: by James
Goodby and Nathan Pyle (The Hill)
James Goodby,
high-level arms control negotiator in the Reagan
Administration, and Nathan Pyles, Director of The Reagan
Vision, argue for ratification of the CTBT by the U.S.
Senate.
Read the op-ed here.
Getting to yes - Interview
with Rose Gottemoeller
In this interview with the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, U.S. Assistant Secretary
of State Gottemoeller addresses a range of nuclear
disarmament and non-proliferation issues, including several
questions on the CTBT, its verifiability and the U.S.
Stockpile Stewardship program.
Read the article here.
Video: Next on-site
inspection exercise authorized
Video on the CTBTO
produced by the U.S. Mission to the UN in Vienna. It reports
on last month’s unanimous decision taken by CTBTO Member
States to authorize a new large-scale on-site inspection
exercise in 2014, the Integrated Field Exercise.
Watch the video here.
2x VERTIC on CTBT
verification
Disarmament expert John Walker explores the relationship
between verification and deterrence with a view to the
CTBT’s International Monitoring System. VERTIC’s Ryoji Sakai emphasizes the importance of
on-site inspections for the CTBT regime in light of the
recently approved Integrated Field Exercise in 2014.
Haunted by past, Kazakhstan
shuns nuclear bomb
Reuters reports on the legacy of
nuclear testing in Kazakhstan and on the country’s
historic decision to shut down the Semipalatinsk Test
Site.
Read the article here.
Infamous Anniversaries in November
8
November 1957: First UK thermonuclear test
22
November 1955: First Soviet thermonuclear test
26 November 1991: Last UK nuclear test
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