Dear all,

Please find today’s press roundup below. Thank you all for your continued support and have a nice weekend.

 Global Nukes

• Mayors for Peace: Speech by Matsui Kazumi, President of Mayors for Peace and Mayor of Hiroshima, at Leinster House Dublin, Ireland October 23, 2024.
• The Wire: A 2024 Nobel peace winner has compared Hiroshima-Nagasaki to Gaza. We must listen to him.

Nuclear Testing

• The Conversation: ‘Our nuclear childhood’: the sisters who witnessed H-bomb testsover their Pacific island and are still coming to terms with the fallout.
• The Independent: Criminal sanctions could be brought over harm suffered by nuclear test veterans. Nick Thomas-Symonds said the duty of candour brought forward as part of the proposed Hillsborough Law will apply to cases of nuclear test veterans.

Middle East

• Financial Times: Israel pushes for expanded UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.Netanyahu government wants Unifil forces to patrol much larger area and carry out border inspections

Iran

• New York Times guest essay: The dilemma Iran’s leader faces.
• Foreign Policy: Iran has every reason now to go nuclear. Israel’s latest wars are changing Tehran’s strategic calculations.

NATO / Europe

•  How the fog of war in Ukraine increases the risk of escalation. https://thebulletin.org/2024/10/how-the-fog-of-war-in-ukraine-increases-the-risk-of-escalation/?link…
• NATO on its relationship with Australia.

Nuclear Energy

• Independent Australia: Nuclear lobby on track to sabotage COP29. The nuclear lobby is on track to sabotage the COP29 UN Climate Change Conference next month in Azerbaijan — lobbying governments for support and investors for money, writes Noel Wauchope.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament