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Canada’s absence betrays its history on nuclear talks

Cesar Jaramillo March 27, 2017 Featured, News, Nuclear Weapons

Negotiations begin Monday at the United Nations in New York on a “legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading toward their total elimination.” These talks flow from resolutions adopted …

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Trump, Nukes and Twitter: A Potentially Lethal Combination

Cesar Jaramillo January 31, 2017 Featured, Nuclear Weapons

Tick, tock: the Doomsday clock measured by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved 30 seconds closer to midnight (meaning: global catastrophe) — from three minutes to two minutes, 30 …

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Despite ruling, many questions on Saudi arms deal linger

Cesar Jaramillo January 25, 2017 Conventional Weapons, Featured, News

Two prime ministers and four ministers of foreign affairs later, Canada is still set to ship $15-billion of military equipment to human-rights pariah Saudi Arabia. This in spite of well-documented …

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Ploughshares in the news: January 2016

Tasneem Jamal January 20, 2016 News

January 18, 2016 January 4 The Globe and Mail: Ottawa going ahead with Saudi arms deal despite condemning executions (quotes Cesar) By Steven Chase January 5 The Globe and Mail: Critics push …

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NPT Review Conference: No outcome document better than a weak one

Tasneem Jamal June 4, 2015 Nuclear Weapons

Author Cesar Jaramillo Published June 3, 2015 in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Perhaps Bob Marley sang it best: “[Y]ou can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool …

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Arms sale to Saudi Arabia lowers the bar on export controls

Tasneem Jamal June 4, 2015 Conventional Weapons

Author Cesar Jaramillo Published May 27, 2015 in The Globe and Mail By any modern standard, Saudi Arabia is a human-rights pariah. Yet the Canadian Commercial Corporation, a Crown corporation, …

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Proliferation concerns secondary in nuclear deal with India

Tasneem Jamal June 4, 2015 Nuclear Weapons

Author Cesar Jaramillo Published April 29, 2015 in the Waterloo Region Record The uneven application of Canada’s nuclear non-proliferation standards is becoming increasingly apparent. For a country that has so …

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Canada’s unjustifiable absence from the global Arms Trade Treaty process

Tasneem Jamal June 4, 2015 Conventional Weapons

AuthorCesar JaramilloPublished May 6, 2015 by Embassy, an Ottawa-based foreign policy weekly. On April 20-21, the Austrian government hosted a preparatory meeting toward the First Conference of States Parties to the …

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A principled nuclear disarmament policy for Canada

Cesar Jaramillo May 20, 2014 Nuclear Weapons

Authors  Cesar Jaramillo and Setsuko Thurlow Published by Embassy, an Ottawa-based foreign policy weekly. As the prospect for a comprehensive legal ban on nuclear weapons seems to be moving from aspiration to …

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Iran Deal a Necessary Step

Cesar Jaramillo December 10, 2013 Nuclear Weapons

Author Cesar Jaramillo Published by Embassy, an Ottawa-based foreign policy weekly. When the dust has settled, the fact will remain that the interim agreement reached on Nov. 24 in Geneva concerning …

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