International Day Against Nuclear Tests: 75 Years After the First (“Trinity”) Nuclear Test
VIENNA – On July 16, 1945, the first nuclear explosive device was detonated at the Alamogordo Test Range in the New Mexico desert in the United States of America. In the next seven decades nine different countries carried out some 2,060 nuclear explosions, contaminating the atmosphere, lands and space, and polluting the world’s oceans, with…
Kazakhstan’s chairmanship of the nuclear suppliers group in 2019-2020
In June 2019, Kazakhstan takes over the Chairmanship of the 48-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) from the current chair Latvia. In June 2019, Kazakhstan takes over the Chairmanship of the 48-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) from the current chair Latvia. The 2019 session of the NSG Plenary will be held on June 20-21 in Nur-Sultan…
