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The World May End Up with No Agreement to Limit Nuclear Weapons

The United States hasn’t decided whether or not it needs the New START to be extended Less than a year is left before the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) expires. Alexey Arbatov, Head of the Center for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations and a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke about the arms control situation to NG-Diplomatic Courier editor-in-chief Yuri Paniev

Nezavisimaya Gazeta | #PRESS

Useful Guarantees: Why Russia and the United States Should Extend the New Start

The New START expires in February 2021. An extension is possible, but it all depends on the political will of the Americans Little time remains to make a decision on the New START. The bilateral treaty between Russia and the United States, fundamental to nuclear safety, contains an automatic extension provision: six months before the expiration date, the parties must notify each other of their willingness or unwillingness to extend the treaty.

RBC, Evgeny Buzhinsky | #PRESS

The Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe Meets in Geneva

Members of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum discussed the most important issues related to strategic stability and the crisis in arms control and nuclear non-proliferation

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The Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe to Hold a Meeting in Geneva

On December 4-5, 2019, a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe will convene in Geneva. Members of the Supervisory Board and attending experts will discuss major and most pressing issues on today’s agenda, including crisis of arms control and non-proliferation, ways to prevent an arms race in the absence of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, issues related to maintaining strategic arms control after 2021, and strategic and regional stability.

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US-Russia Nuclear War Would Kill 34 Million People Within Hours And Is Increasingly Likely, Princeton Study Concludes

Risk of catastrophic conflict has risen ‘dramatically in the past two years’, academics warn More than 90 million people would be killed or injured in a nuclear war between the US and Russia if a conventional conflict went too far, according to a new simulation created by researchers.

Independent.co.uk | #PRESS

Former U.S. Defence Secretary Pleads for Nuclear Cooperation

William J. Perry, who was defence secretary under President Clinton, told a nuclear conference in Rome recently that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists had quantified the risk of a nuclear conflict by setting its nuclear disaster clock at two minutes to midnight for a second year in a row. That was "closer to catastrophe than any year of the Cold War except 1954," Dr Perry told the conference.

italianinsider.it | #PRESS

We Still Can’t ‘Win’ a Nuclear War. Pretending We Could Is a Dangerous Fantasy

For nearly five decades, the Cold War nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union threatened to unleash a devastating nuclear war at almost any time. The worst danger came when officials on both sides argued that a nuclear war could be fought, and sought the means to win such a conflict. Alarmingly, the idea of nuclear warfighting is back in vogue under the current administration. It must again be rejected

Washingtonpost.com | #PRESS

We Must Pull Back From This Nuclear Precipice

Without diplomacy, the world’s major powers risk a renewed nuclear arms race, warns Dr. Kantor, Founder of The International Luxembourg Forum. The reaction to the airing of the HBO series “Chernobyl,” dramatizing the most disastrous nuclear power plant accident in history, and to the news of President Trump’s aborted strike on Iran, amply shows the potential for horrific widescale nuclear catastrophe and the public’s desire to know the true extent of the risk.

commentcentral.co.uk | #PRESS
Nuclear Nightmares Shall Not Become a Reality

Nuclear Nightmares Shall Not Become a Reality

A documentary devoted to the Luxembourg Forum's Supervisory Board meeting in Geneva

Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum "Arms Control: the Burden of Changes". Rome, June 4-5, 2019
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Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum "Arms Control: the Burden of Changes". Rome, June 4-5, 2019

Dr. Moshe Kantor on US Withdrawal from Iran Agreement

Dr. Moshe Kantor on US Withdrawal from Iran Agreement

Opening speech by the President of the International Luxembourg Forun Viatcheslav Kantor at the 10th anniversary conference of the Forum in Paris

Opening speech by the President of the International Luxembourg Forun Viatcheslav Kantor at the 10th anniversary conference of the Forum in Paris

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The Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe Meets in Geneva

Members of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum discussed the most important issues related to strategic stability and the crisis in arms control and nuclear non-proliferation

#PRESS

The Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe to Hold a Meeting in Geneva

On December 4-5, 2019, a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe will convene in Geneva. Members of the Supervisory Board and attending experts will discuss major and most pressing issues on today’s agenda, including crisis of arms control and non-proliferation, ways to prevent an arms race in the absence of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, issues related to maintaining strategic arms control after 2021, and strategic and regional stability.

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WASHINGTON DELIBERATELY INSTIGATING TEHRAN TO VIOLATE JCPOA, SAYS EXPERT

"I think it's a mistake to fall into the trap put by [US President Donald] Trump and [National Security Advisor John] Bolton, because they are pushing to violate the JCPOA in frustration," the expert said on the sidelines of a conference of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe.

TASS | #PRESS

Participants of the International Luxembourg Forum’s Conference in Rome Meet with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin

(VATICAN, June 5, 2019) Participants of the International Luxembourg Forum’s conference in Rome, leading experts in nuclear security, nuclear arms reduction, control and non-proliferation from the United States, Russia, France, Sweden, Canada, Australia and other countries were received by the Vatican Secretary of State His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin, as part of the dialogue and joint initiatives of the Luxembourg Forum and the Holy See.

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EXPERTS: STRATEGIC STABILITY IN THE WORLD IS FALLING TO ITS LOWEST LEVEL IN HALF A CENTURY

The experts of the Luxembourg Forum for the Prevention of a Nuclear Disaster have said that global strategic stability and nuclear security are facing the worst crisis in half a century since the first international treaties were concluded.

mbs.news | #PRESS

Trump Admin Aiming For Major Nuclear Deal with Russia and China

President Donald Trump has his eyes on a new foreign policy prize: a grand nuclear deal with Russia and China, that he sees as a potential signature foreign policy achievement. However, some arms control experts are concerned the effort could backfire

CNN | #PRESS

President of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe Dr. Viatcheslav Kantor: “The Global Situation is Becoming Increasingly Fraught, Threatening and Hard to Predict”

GENEVA, June 11, 2018 // The Nuclear Strategies and Strategic Stability conference, organized by the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe opened in Geneva on June 11, 2018

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William Perry’s Book “My Journey at the Nuclear Brink” Presented In Moscow

William J. Perry, a former U.S. Secretary of Defense, member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe and Stanford University Professor, presented his book My Journey at the Nuclear Brink translated into Russian in Moscow on February 5, 2018

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Thirty years ago, on December 8, 1987, in Washington D. C., Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty)

Thirty years ago, on December 8, 1987, in Washington D. C., Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) for an indefinite time, which came into effect on June 1, 1988. Now, for multiple reasons, this Treaty inspires much more intense debates than at the time of its signing. While some people think that it was a step on the verge of betraying the state interests, others propose to terminate it immediately

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WORLD WAR 3: NORTH KOREA CRISIS COULD SPARK GLOBAL CHAIN OF NUCLEAR STRIKES, EXPERT WARNS

Dr Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, a Jewish leader, philanthropist and businessman, issued a stern warning about the growing international tensions as he addressed the audience at the Paris forum on Monday, which included former prime minister Tony Blair and William Perry, who served as the US secretary of defence for three years under Bill Clinton.

Express.co.uk | #PRESS
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The World May End Up with No Agreement to Limit Nuclear Weapons

The United States hasn’t decided whether or not it needs the New START to be extended Less than a year is left before the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) expires. Alexey Arbatov, Head of the Center for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations and a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke about the arms control situation to NG-Diplomatic Courier editor-in-chief Yuri Paniev

Nezavisimaya Gazeta | #PRESS

Useful Guarantees: Why Russia and the United States Should Extend the New Start

The New START expires in February 2021. An extension is possible, but it all depends on the political will of the Americans Little time remains to make a decision on the New START. The bilateral treaty between Russia and the United States, fundamental to nuclear safety, contains an automatic extension provision: six months before the expiration date, the parties must notify each other of their willingness or unwillingness to extend the treaty.

RBC, Evgeny Buzhinsky | #PRESS

US-Russia Nuclear War Would Kill 34 Million People Within Hours And Is Increasingly Likely, Princeton Study Concludes

Risk of catastrophic conflict has risen ‘dramatically in the past two years’, academics warn More than 90 million people would be killed or injured in a nuclear war between the US and Russia if a conventional conflict went too far, according to a new simulation created by researchers.

Independent.co.uk | #PRESS

Former U.S. Defence Secretary Pleads for Nuclear Cooperation

William J. Perry, who was defence secretary under President Clinton, told a nuclear conference in Rome recently that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists had quantified the risk of a nuclear conflict by setting its nuclear disaster clock at two minutes to midnight for a second year in a row. That was "closer to catastrophe than any year of the Cold War except 1954," Dr Perry told the conference.

italianinsider.it | #PRESS

We Still Can’t ‘Win’ a Nuclear War. Pretending We Could Is a Dangerous Fantasy

For nearly five decades, the Cold War nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union threatened to unleash a devastating nuclear war at almost any time. The worst danger came when officials on both sides argued that a nuclear war could be fought, and sought the means to win such a conflict. Alarmingly, the idea of nuclear warfighting is back in vogue under the current administration. It must again be rejected

Washingtonpost.com | #PRESS

We Must Pull Back From This Nuclear Precipice

Without diplomacy, the world’s major powers risk a renewed nuclear arms race, warns Dr. Kantor, Founder of The International Luxembourg Forum. The reaction to the airing of the HBO series “Chernobyl,” dramatizing the most disastrous nuclear power plant accident in history, and to the news of President Trump’s aborted strike on Iran, amply shows the potential for horrific widescale nuclear catastrophe and the public’s desire to know the true extent of the risk.

commentcentral.co.uk | #PRESS

Why India’s Hypersonic Missile Could Trigger a Nuclear War

New missile, new threats? India’s test of a hypersonic missile signifies more than the advance of Indian weapons technology. It also is one step closer to triggering a nuclear war with Pakistan.

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Former US Secretary of Defense William Perry Warned World is "Closer to (Nuclear) Catastrophe Than Any Year Of The Cold War"

In the face of widespread concern over the future of nuclear pacts, with the imminent expiry of the INF Treaty in August 2019 and with a date yet to be set for the start of negotiations for an extension of the New Start Treaty beyond its expiry in 2021, Luxembourg Forum President Dr. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor warned against defeatism, as he argued that now was not the time to abandon diplomacy, quoting Winston Churchill's famous words: "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Yahoo Finance | #PRESS

Washington Deliberately Instigating Tehran to Violate JCPOA, Says Expert

Former head of IAEA's Verification and Security Policy Coordination Office Tariq Rauf said that "it's a mistake to fall into the trap" put up by the United States

TASS | #PRESS

Nuclear Threat With Russia At ‘Dangerous Levels,’ Nunn Says

The potential for cyber interference is raising the threat of a nuclear war between Russia and the U.S. to ‘dangerous levels,’ according to former Senator Sam Nunn, a longtime national-security specialist

Bloomberg.com | #PRESS
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Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum "Arms Control: the Burden of Changes". Rome, June 4-5, 2019
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Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum "Arms Control: the Burden of Changes". Rome, June 4-5, 2019

Meeting of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum. Geneva, December 4-5, 2019
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Meeting of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum. Geneva, December 4-5, 2019

Meeting of the participants of the Luxembourg Forum’s Conference in Rome with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin
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Meeting of the participants of the Luxembourg Forum’s Conference in Rome with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin

Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum "Nuclear Strategies and Strategic Stability". Geneva, June 11-12, 2018
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Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum "Nuclear Strategies and Strategic Stability". Geneva, June 11-12, 2018

Presentation of a book by William Perry "My Journey at the Nuclear Brink" at Moscow Carnegie Center. Moscow, February 5, 2018
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Presentation of a book by William Perry "My Journey at the Nuclear Brink" at Moscow Carnegie Center. Moscow, February 5, 2018

10th Anniversary Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum "Topical Issues of Nuclear Non-Proliferation". Paris, October 9-10, 2017
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10th Anniversary Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum "Topical Issues of Nuclear Non-Proliferation". Paris, October 9-10, 2017

Presentation of the joint publication by the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe and the US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), entitled 'Preventing the Crisis of the Nuclear Arms Control and Catastrophic Terrorism', at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the RAS. Moscow, April 20, 2017
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Presentation of the joint publication by the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe and the US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), entitled 'Preventing the Crisis of the Nuclear Arms Control and Catastrophic Terrorism', at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the RAS. Moscow, April 20, 2017

Presentation of the joint publication by the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe and the US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), entitled 'Preventing the Crisis of the Nuclear Arms Control and Catastrophic Terrorism', at Washington D.C.
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Presentation of the joint publication by the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe and the US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), entitled 'Preventing the Crisis of the Nuclear Arms Control and Catastrophic Terrorism', at Washington D.C.

International Luxembourg Forum Supervisory Board meeting. London, December 6-7, 2016
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International Luxembourg Forum Supervisory Board meeting. London, December 6-7, 2016

London, 2016

Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum '30th anniversary of the Reykjavik Summit – lessons of the past and the tasks for the future'. Amsterdam, June 7-8, 2016
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Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum '30th anniversary of the Reykjavik Summit – lessons of the past and the tasks for the future'. Amsterdam, June 7-8, 2016

Press Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe. Moscow, December 9, 2015
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Press Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe. Moscow, December 9, 2015

Joint Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum and the Nuclear Threat Initiative 'Preventing the Crisis of Nuclear Arms Control and Catastrophic Terrorism'. Washington, December 1-2, 2015
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Joint Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum and the Nuclear Threat Initiative 'Preventing the Crisis of Nuclear Arms Control and Catastrophic Terrorism'. Washington, December 1-2, 2015

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Nuclear Nightmares Shall Not Become a Reality

Nuclear Nightmares Shall Not Become a Reality

A documentary devoted to the Luxembourg Forum's Supervisory Board meeting in Geneva

Dr. Moshe Kantor on US Withdrawal from Iran Agreement

Dr. Moshe Kantor on US Withdrawal from Iran Agreement

Opening speech by the President of the International Luxembourg Forun Viatcheslav Kantor at the 10th anniversary conference of the Forum in Paris

Opening speech by the President of the International Luxembourg Forun Viatcheslav Kantor at the 10th anniversary conference of the Forum in Paris

ILF Interview - William Potter

ILF Interview - William Potter

LF Supervisory Board member answers most burning questions of today's nuclear security

ILF Interview - Bruce Blair

ILF Interview - Bruce Blair

Member of the LF Supervisory Board answers most burning questions of today's nuclear security

ILF Interview - Konstantin Bogdanov

ILF Interview - Konstantin Bogdanov

LF Youth Group Member Konstantin Bogdanov answers questions on most pressing nuclear issues

Is Nuclear War Possible Today - Roald Sagdeev - Interview

Is Nuclear War Possible Today - Roald Sagdeev - Interview

Member of the LF Supervisory Board answers most pressing questions of today's nuclear security

Safeguarding Nuclear Security

Safeguarding Nuclear Security

This documentary is about the history of the Luxembourg Forum and its activities since 2007

Plan A - Simulation of a Nuclear War developed by Princeton University

Plan A - Simulation of a Nuclear War developed by Princeton University

Why Do We Not Fear Nuclear War? Part 4: What is a Cold War The anticipation of a Hot War

Why Do We Not Fear Nuclear War? Part 4: What is a Cold War The anticipation of a Hot War

A 4-part documentary by Leonid Mlechin

Ellie Hochenberg (I24 News TV, Israel) speaks about the conference of the Luxembourg Forum in Rome and interviews Dr. William Perry

Ellie Hochenberg (I24 News TV, Israel) speaks about the conference of the Luxembourg Forum in Rome and interviews Dr. William Perry

Why Do We Not Fear Nuclear War. Part 3: Is Global Warming More Dangerous Than Nuclear Winter

Why Do We Not Fear Nuclear War. Part 3: Is Global Warming More Dangerous Than Nuclear Winter

A 4-part documentary by Leonid Mlechin

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