CND Press Digest: Friday 31st May 2024

Global Nukes

• LSE blog: Why the US must stop the next nuclear arms race before it starts.
• United Nations System Staff College: Channeling youth expertise and influence for a world without nuclear weapons.
• A new report from the US Treasury has outlined potential concerns with the NFT market, including terrorist financing, theft, and funding nuclear proliferation.
• Arms Control Association: Russia’s war and the specter of nuclear conflict.

Space

• Drone Wars has started a new project called Space Watch UK, which will investigate and challenge the militarisation and corporate exploitation of space, focusing in particular on the UK’s military space programme. Check out their websiteand follow them on Twitter/X.
• Understanding China’s growing nuclear arsenal.

UK Nuclear Energy

• BBC: Sites shortlisted for nuclear reactor factory.
• Oil Price: The UK government has ambitious plans for the rapid expansion of the country’s nuclear energy sector, with two nuclear plants slated for the next decade, and discussions around a third.

Nuclear Energy

• A review conducted by researchers at the University of Surrey has concluded that offshore wind farms could have averted the Fukushima nuclear disaster by maintaining the cooling systems and preventing a meltdown.
• Trial removal of melted fuel rods at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will begin as early as August.

NATO / Europe

• Reuters: NATO chief dismisses Russian warnings of escalation after lifting of arms restrictions.
• Independent: NATO ministers meet in Prague as allies ease restrictions on Ukraine’s use of their weapons.
• Euronews: What does Finland and Sweden’s membership to NATO mean for race to arm the Arctic?
• Forbes: Lift the constraints on Ukraine and reverse the deterrence calculus.

AUKUS & Indo-Pacific

• Straits Times: How North Korea is building a nuclear attack arsenal.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament