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 …
Trump, Nukes and Twitter: A Potentially Lethal Combination
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 …
Despite ruling, many questions on Saudi arms deal linger
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 …
Ploughshares in the news: January 2016
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 …
NPT Review Conference: No outcome document better than a weak one
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 …
Arms sale to Saudi Arabia lowers the bar on export controls
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, …
Proliferation concerns secondary in nuclear deal with India
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 …
Canada’s unjustifiable absence from the global Arms Trade Treaty process
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 …
A principled nuclear disarmament policy for Canada
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 …
Iran Deal a Necessary Step
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 …