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You choose: $105 billion a year for health care or nuclear weapons?

In 2011 the nine nuclear-armed nations will spend an estimated US$105 billion maintaining and modernizing their nuclear weapons, despite the International Court of Justice having declared it illegal to...

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Aren’t nuclear weapons harmful, too?

The global treaty prohibiting cluster munitions, which entered into force last August, was pursued on the basis that such weapons cause “unacceptable harm.” Similarly, the treaty outlawing...

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Nuclear divestment: the medical case

This week the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons launched a major study on the global financing of nuclear weapons producers. The 180-page report argues that banks, pension funds,...

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