CND Press Digest: Wednesday 7th February 2024

NATO / Europe

• IAEA chief to visit Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to check safety.
• AP: UN nuclear chief says security is still fragile at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied nuclear power plant.
• ‘Now we are not safe’: Sweden’s Kurds fear NATO deal has sold them out.
• Scholz to seek to shore up support for Ukraine, NATO on US trip.
• Russia simply can’t win a war against Europe. The mathematics are inexorable, writes Andrew Lilico in The Telegraph.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/06/russia-war-europe-nato-eu-ukraine-economics/?link_id=4&a…
• Latvia reintroduces conscription to deter Russia from invading Europe. Compulsory draft came into force in January, Newsweek and Metro report on Russian school children being given nuclear drills.

Middle East & North Africa

• The Jerusalem Post: Iran closer than ever to weaponizing uranium, building nuclear bomb

AUKUS / Indo-Pacific

• Strategic stability on the Korean Peninsula: Dual crisis and risk reduction measures.
• Australia supports latest autonomous robotics demonstration under AUKUS banner.
• writes Dalibor Rohac in The Spectator.

UK Nuclear Energy

• FT: UK nuclear venture aims to realise fusion dream

Nuclear Energy

• Financial Times: The clock is ticking on the nuclear renaissance.
• Finnish power workers to go on strike at nuclear and hydro plants next week.

Future Warfare

• AI models just love escalating conflict to all-out nuclear war.
• Vice: AI launches nukes In ‘worrying’ war simulation: ‘I just want to have peace in the world’

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament