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Schutzschirm und Schattenseiten – Europas nukleares Dilemma beleuchtet die Rückkehr der Atomwaffen in die sicherheitspolitische Debatte Europas. Angesichts der katastrophalen humanitären Folgen eines Atomwaffeneinsatzes, wachsender Proliferationsgefahren, russischer Drohungen und eines möglichen Rückzugs der USA steht Europa vor einer politischen und moralischen Zerreißprobe: Braucht Europa mehr nukleare Eigenverantwortung – oder weniger Atomwaffen weltweit?Mit dem Militärexperten Gustav Gressel und dem Abrüstungsdiplomaten Alexander Kmentt sprechen wir über Abschreckung und Abrüstung, über Sicherheit und Verantwortung. Der Podcast will keine einfachen Antworten liefern, sondern Raum schaffen für eine offene, kritische und ausgewogene Diskussion – strategisch, ethisch und gesellschaftlich. Denn gerade in Zeiten wachsender Spannungen ist es wichtiger denn je, die komplexen Zusammenhänge hinter der nuklearen Debatte zu verstehen und differenziert zu reflektieren.Gäste:Alexander Kmentt ist Direktor der Abteilung für Abrüstung, Rüstungskontrolle und Nichtverbreitung im österreichischen Außenministerium. Er gilt als einer der zentralen Architekten des Atomwaffenverbotsvertrags (TPNW) und war federführend bei der Wiener Konferenz 2014 über die humanitären Folgen von Atomwaffen. Kmentt war u. a. österreichischer Botschafter bei der Politisch-Sicherheitskomitees der EU, leitete mehrfach die österreichische Delegation bei internationalen Abrüstungsgremien und war Präsident der ersten Staatenkonferenz zum TPNW im Juni 2022. Er wurde mehrfach international für sein Engagement in der Abrüstung ausgezeichnet, darunter als „Arms Control Person of the Year 2014“. Kmentt hat in Wien und Cambridge Völkerrecht und internationale Beziehungen studiert.Gustav Gressel ist Militärexperte mit Schwerpunkt Osteuropa, Sicherheitspolitik und Militärstrategie. Er absolvierte dieOffiziersausbildung an der Theresianischen Militärakademie und war anschließend im österreichischen Verteidigungsministerium in den Bereichen Strategie und internationale Sicherheit tätig. Gressel promovierte in Strategischen Studien und arbeitet seit 2014 beim European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. Seit 2025 forscht er an der Landesverteidigungsakademie in Wien. Er ist regelmäßig als Experte in Medien wie Die Welt, ZDF oder NDR präsent und betreibt seit 2022 den Podcast Ostausschuss zum Ukrainekrieg und osteuropäischen Themen.Moderation:Stephanie Fenkart, Direktorin des IIP.Diese Folge wurde am 12. Juni 2025 aufgezeichnet.

Antony Donovan (of Veterans for Peace) and Kelly Lundeen (of Nuke Watch)are just back from the Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons where most of the world has taken action to prohibit nuclear weapons, but where is the US, where was Biden, where is trump? They reflect on the great work being done by more than 90 countries which have ratified the TPNW and wonder why no US. They talk about the US and international organizations including Nuke Watch and their work to expand and enforce the TPNW and what YOU can do.

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: LINKS to Access TPNW Coverage: Recap of 2023 interviews at 2MSP with International Politicians Against Nukes JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA STUPID DEBRIS TRICKS Photo of the fabled Fukushima debris particle removed from Reactor 1. Note the lack of comparison for scale – it’s not a boulder; it’s only 0.7 grams, or the equivalent...

Le 19 septembre dernier, le Musée International de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (MICR) a dévoilé la sculpture en bronze intitulée « Future Memory – Tricycle », inspirée du tricycle de Shinichi Tetsutani, une jeune victime de la bombe atomique d'Hiroshima. Cet événement a été marqué par la participation de l'organisation ICAN (Campagne Internationale pour l'Abolition des Armes Nucléaires), qui joue un rôle central dans la lutte mondiale pour l'abolition des armes nucléaires. Selon son rapport annuel 2023, ICAN a dénoncé le concept de dissuasion nucléaire comme une menace majeure pour la paix et la sécurité mondiales à travers une série d'initiatives globales. L'organisation a réussi à rallier le soutien de villes, gouvernements, parlementaires, jeunes, artistes, et institutions financières, renforçant ainsi la légitimité du Traité sur l'Interdiction des Armes Nucléaires (TPNW). Des actions menées de Pretoria à Oslo, en passant par New York et Hiroshima, montrent que le monde souhaite la fin des armes nucléaires. ICAN s'engage activement pour éliminer ces armes de destruction massive, en travaillant étroitement avec les communautés affectées et en œuvrant à l'universalisation du TPNW. Dans cette deuxième partie de notre émission, nous serons avec Céline Nahory, coordonnatrice du plaidoyer, et Annette Willi, coordonnatrice des opérations, toutes deux de ICAN.

Cfare duhet te dini rreth Denisës: Lindur në Vlorë dhe rritur në Itali (21 vjet), aktualisht në Berlin. E diplomuar në Marrëdhënie Nderkombëtare Krahasuese (MA) dhe në Gjuhë, Civilizim dhe Shkenca Gjuhësore - me specializim në Politikë Nderkombëtare - (BA). Aktualisht këshilltare e Marrëdhënieve Nderkombëtare në Universitetin e Europës për Shkencat e Aplikuara. Me herët: Delegate Rinor e levizjes globale rinore Youth4TPNW në takimin e parë të shteteve palë në Traktatin për ndalimin e armëve bërthamore (TPNW). Ambasadore Globale e G20 gjatë Forumit të politikave globale i organizuar nga Instituti Italian për Studime Politike Ndërkombëtare, Universiteti Bocconi, Think20 Indonesia, Organizata për Bashkëpunim dhe Zhvillim Ekonomik (OECD). Fituese e Bursës për Paqe dhe Siguri: Trajnim mbi Kontrollin e Armëve dhe Çarmatimin e organizuar nga Organizata për Siguri dhe Bashkëpunim në Evropë dhe Zyra e Kombeve të Bashkuara për Çështjet e Çarmatimit (UNODA). Konsulente pranë Organizatës Ndërkombëtare për çështjet e migracionit - (Misioni në Tiranë), në programin e IOM Albania mbi përfshirjen e diaspores shqiptare në zhvillim ekonomik dhe shoqëror të vendit. Eksperiencë të tjera në institute studimore, qendra kërkimore, institucione publike (Bashkia Venecia), dhe OJQ (ICAN-International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Deutschland / Fushata ndërkombëtare për heqjen e armëve bërthamore Deutschland)

Cfare duhet te dini rreth Denisës: Lindur në Vlorë dhe rritur në Itali (21 vjet), aktualisht në Berlin. E diplomuar në Marrëdhënie Nderkombëtare Krahasuese (MA) dhe në Gjuhë, Civilizim dhe Shkenca Gjuhësore - me specializim në Politikë Nderkombëtare - (BA). Aktualisht këshilltare e Marrëdhënieve Nderkombëtare në Universitetin e Europës për Shkencat e Aplikuara. Me herët: Delegate Rinor e levizjes globale rinore Youth4TPNW në takimin e parë të shteteve palë në Traktatin për ndalimin e armëve bërthamore (TPNW). Ambasadore Globale e G20 gjatë Forumit të politikave globale i organizuar nga Instituti Italian për Studime Politike Ndërkombëtare, Universiteti Bocconi, Think20 Indonesia, Organizata për Bashkëpunim dhe Zhvillim Ekonomik (OECD). Fituese e Bursës për Paqe dhe Siguri: Trajnim mbi Kontrollin e Armëve dhe Çarmatimin e organizuar nga Organizata për Siguri dhe Bashkëpunim në Evropë dhe Zyra e Kombeve të Bashkuara për Çështjet e Çarmatimit (UNODA). Konsulente pranë Organizatës Ndërkombëtare për çështjet e migracionit - (Misioni në Tiranë), në programin e IOM Albania mbi përfshirjen e diaspores shqiptare në zhvillim ekonomik dhe shoqëror të vendit. Eksperiencë të tjera në institute studimore, qendra kërkimore, institucione publike (Bashkia Venecia), dhe OJQ (ICAN-International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Deutschland / Fushata ndërkombëtare për heqjen e armëve bërthamore Deutschland)

This Week’s Featured Interviews: A round-up of short featured interviews by outstanding anti-nuclear campaigners. Dr. Ivana Hughes, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation The Nukewatch Report with John LaForge The Nukewatch Report with John LaForge will appear once a month on Nuclear Hotseat. Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter The nukesters head-hunt Linda Pentz...

２０２３年１２月１５日金曜日。今日のテーマは、 「岸田総理、核軍縮に賭けていると言いながら、『核兵器禁止条約の会議』にそっぽを向くのは、無責任だと思いませんか？」 12月1日、核兵器の開発や保有、使用などを禁じているTPNW（核兵器禁止条約）の第2回締約国会議が、改めて「核による抑止」という戦略もしくは考え方は間違っており、「核軍縮の障害」でしかないなどとする政治宣言を採択して、閉幕しました。 この会議には、核兵器禁止条約に加盟している締約国だけでなく、日本同様、アメリカの「核の傘」の庇護を受けているNATO（北大西洋条約機構）の加盟国を含めておよそ30カ国のオブザーバーも参加し、なかなかの盛り上がりだったようです。 特に、日本と同じG7加盟国のドイツもオブザーバーとして会議に参加。演説で、ロシアが核の威嚇を繰り返している現状を考えると、直ちに「核抑止」を放棄することはできないとしつつも、核軍縮そのものは重要だ、などと主張したと伝えられています。 そうした中で、岸田政権が去年の第1回に続いて、今回の核兵器禁止条約の締約国会議にも、また、オブザーバー参加を拒んで、代表団を送りませんでした。岸田総理はわずか半年前に、自身が広島県選出の衆議院議員なので、核軍縮に政治家生命を賭けていると言って、わざわざG７サミットを広島に招致して、壮大な政治ショーを演出したばかりです。 ということで、今日は、あれこれ手を出すけど、何をやっても、中途半端で、国民の支持を得られない、岸田内閣のもうひとつの問題点をみんなで考えてみたいと思います。 ※今回、番組アシスタントは杉浦舞に代わり、分林里佳が務めます。 番組公式ツイッター！！「町田徹のふかぼり3兄弟」@tetsu_fukabori3をフォローして、番組に関する情報をどんどんキャッチしましょう！

TPNW SPECIAL, Pt. 2: US Congressman, Int’l Gov’t Reps Support Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty at UN (l-r) State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, MA; US Congressional Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts; Bill Kidd, member of Scottish Parliament; Frank Cownie, Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa. After a press conference on the steps of the United Nations building. Keystone...

NH #650: EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Int’l Activists Gather in NYC for A Week of UN Meetings on Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (TPNW) This Week’s EXCLUSIVE REPORT on the UN Meetings of States Parties on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Interviewees:

You will not hear this story anywhere else but here. The Second Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons just finished and VFP Member Anthony Donovan was there. He joins us to give his reflection on the meeting and his perspective on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. While the news is dominated by Israeli genocide in Gaza, the world does not stop and the efforts of so many countries to eliminate the threat of nuclear war continues. That is why the activism of Anthony, VFP and so many other groups needs to be recognized.

NH #648: TPNW SPECIAL: UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Hotseat Looks Back – Alice Slater, Heidi Hutner, Alicia Sayres-Zakre, Susi Snyder This Week’s TPNW SPECIAL: Nuclear Hotseat producer/Host Libbe HaLevy will be in New York next week for the United Nations’ 2nd Meeting of States Parties on the Treaty on the...

You are invited to join the Global Day of Action Against Nuclear Weapons on Sunday, November 26 th at 2 pm on the Santa Fe Plaza. Come with your friends, family and colleagues and call for an end to nuclear weapons by bringing attention to the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the TPNW. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ccnsupdate/support

This week on the Five Minute Advocate, Dr. Michael Walker examines the groundbreaking nature of the latest and epically successful Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and argues that this is the first treaty to recognise nuclear weapons as a crime against humanity and actively calls upon countries to work towards their elimination. With 92 countries having signed the TPNW and a further 68 to have ratified it but no nuclear state yet to follow suit, Dr. Michael Walker brings into question the rationale behind nuclear weaponry as deterrents and asks if humanity is capable of repeating history with another Hiroshima but on a much larger scale?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordFebruary 20th 2023PACIFIC  PEACE  TALKS  DUNEDIN  NZ "NO ONE IS FREE 'TIL EVERYONE IS FREE " Father Walter Lini- First PM VanuatuINTERVIEWS AND SPEECHES FROM THE NUCLEAR  CONNECTIONS CONFERENCE AT OTAGO UNIVERSITY IN AOTEAROA NZ Speaker bios - Nuclear Connections (mailchimpsites.com) As Cyclone Gabrielle fuelled by  a marine heatwave,  brings more floods and damage to Auckland NZ, we watch anxiously in February 2023In November 2022, I was invited to a conference by climate activists in Otepoti Dunedin.Nuclear Connections Across Oceania (November 2022) | Te Ao O Rongomaraeroa (otago.ac.nz)  I wanted to hear about climate action from Pacific people. There are three interviews and a speech but honestly most of the people found it hard to focus on  climate action with the immediate problem of Fukushima waste water about to be discharged into their part of the world The Pacific. They are worried too about the militarisation of the Pacific through RIMPAC military exercises every two years which have a climate impact also. Behind this is a colonial mentality which is prepared to discount their lives and culture. The islands, which were coaling stations for  steam ships are now essential fuel  depots for a massive amount of trade. Some are still occupied like W.Papua or tied to the colonial powers like Tahiti. Supporting their struggles is something we can do to liberate them for climate action.Pacific Islands Forum and Japan deliver differing statements on plans to dump nuclear wastewater in ocean - ABC Pacific Report from Nic Mc Lellan February 9th 2023We Bleed Black & Red - YOUNGSOLWARA PACIFICTake Action (ourislandsourhome.com.au) Petition“My new home was a dream come true – then climate disaster struck” – Virginia, activist taking on Shell at sea - Greenpeace Aotearoa- DonateIn reality the climate action most needed is from countries like Australia, which are still profiting from the export of climate changing coal, oil and gas.N.Z Writer and Environmental Lawyer Teall Crossen had the  humility to say " New Zealand is stealing from the people of the Pacific. We are stealing their land, their homes, their water and possibly we may recolonise their future".GUESTS:Hinamoeura Cross from TahitiHinamoeura CROSS is a Polynesian woman.  Between 1966 and 1996, there were 193 nuclear tests in so-called French Polynesia. She refers to them as bombs as "test" hides the real meaning of what was unleashed.Since 1980, her family has been affected by thyroid cancer, first her great gradmother, grandmother, and in 1990 her aunty and her Mom. In 2000 her Aunty got a breast cancer also. In 2013, it was her turn: leukemia. In 2019, she spoke in front of the United Nations 4th Committee to denounce the nuclear legacy on her people. She shares the story of her family as an example of what thousands of Polynesian families face as a result of nuclear weapons. In June 2022, she was one of the two Polynesian invited to participate to the first Meeting of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna, Austria. In October 2022, she was in New York to to denounce France's nuclear legacy and its failure to address the disastrous health and environmental consequences. She realises that the nuclear fact in Polynesia is inseparable from colonial history. This is why she wishes to alert the international community to what is happening in her country. SHE SPOKE TO CLIMATE ACTION RADIO ABOUT THE DIFFICULTY OF DECOLONISING ONES MIND IN ORDER TO TAKE CLIAMET ACTION  Ronny Ato Buai Kareni from West PapuaRonny Kareni is a Canberra-based Free West Papua activist, musician, cultural diplomat and bilingual health educator. He graduated in diplomacy studies at the Australian National University, and a honorary fellow at the University of Wollongong West Papua Project. He is also the co-founder and collaborator of Rize of the Morning Star, a musical and cultural movement, and Pacific representative for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).RONNY SPOKE TO THE CLIMATE ACTION SHOW ABOUT THE 3CR RADIO PROGRAMME "VOICES OF WEST PAPUA" ABOUT THE NEED FOR WEST PAPUA TO BE FREE SO THE CLIMATE ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SO SORELY NEEDED BY ALL OF US CAN BE STARTED. HE QUOTED FATHER WALYER LINI FROM VANUATU" nO ONE IS FREE UNTIL ALL OF US ARE FREE" WHICH WAS ECHOED THROUGH THE CONFERENCE AT OTAGO UNIVERSITY IN DUNEDIN /OTEPOTI NZ  Joy Lehuanani Enomoto from Hawai'iJoy Lehuanani Enomoto is a mixed Kānaka Maoli scholar, community organizer and visual artist,. She currently lives in Honolulu, Oʻahu and is the executive director for Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice, which focuses on demilitarizing and de-occupying Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.WE HEAR PART OF HER SPEACH ABOUT RIMPAC MILITARY EXERCISES WHICH HUGELY IMPACT THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND DEVASTATE CORAL REEFS TURTLES AND OCEAN LIFE.Her scholarship has been featured in several publications including Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs, Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi, Routledge Postcolonial Handbook & PostModern Culture Journal. Her artwork engages issues currently affecting the peoples of the Pacific and has been featured in the exhibitions “Inundation: Art & Climate Change in the Pacific”(2020) Mere Tuilau from FijiI am Mere Tuilau, an anti-nuclear advocate, human rights defender, facilitator and youth leader from Fiji.  I believe in the value of a people-centered approach to weave our struggles together on self-determination, socio-economic, climate change resistance and nuclear justice. In 2017, my role expanded to coordinating and strengthening the Youngsolwara Pacific movement — a regional movement made up of Pacific students, artists, poets, writers, academics and activists, who are passionate in safe-guarding our Oceans and self-determination.  In 2022, I initiated the forming of the Pacific Youth for TPNW and led the conversation on our collective implementation paper at the 1st Meeting of State Parties' in Vienna. I am also involved with Youth for TPNW and Reverse the Trend Pacific.As stewards of the vast Pacific Ocean, I believe that we are called to safeguard, guide and determine our destiny, as well as to navigate our narratives until we the people of Oceania are fully free.. Mere contributed to the  “Pacific voices” session and “Stopping the wastewater discharge at TEPCO's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant” panel. She spoke to CLIMATE ACTION RADIO about climate activism in the Pacific. Read her poem  here"The elephant in the room Diplomacy….Diplomacy? Swallowing my mixed em(Ocean),I stood up and saidExcuse me, I need some air.With thoughts rushing,Anger rizing,Feet rushing,Soul hurting,Face blushing,Heartbeat accelerating,I burst into tears on my way through the hallwaysand into the bathroom to hide myself…..in the name of “diplomacy” What is relationship without principles?Without it''s values?What is history without evidence ?What are humans without feelings ?What is hurt without its wound?What are lessons without learning?What are we, without each other? How can we  look at Britain, France and U.S in the eye and have historical amnesia?Or how can the devils empire look at us in the eye and say "For the Good of Mankind" ? Thoughts of my ancestors crying,Mother screaming in the delivery roomSisters dyingFathers blindBrothers displacedMy family in crisisMy emOcean drowning “Diplomacy” Not him, not her, not them, but us.US who carries the weight,the burden of proof,To prove the suffering,the biggest aggression of our lives. “Diplomacy”  Where our tears and sacrifices are being politicizedWhere Love is being testedWhere hearing is being testedWhere humanity is being tested “Diplomacy” Hear us in our rawest self.Hear us to hear our ancestors cry freelyHear us to let our generation live freelya future where we can dream freelyNa numa noqu Waitui. We look back to look forwardWe look back to pauseWe look back to set sailThe Ocean creates livesThe Ocean hubs livesAnd the Ocean is liveProtect our waitui.      

Hari ini, 22 Januari 2023, adalah tahun kedua diberlakukannya Traktat Pelarangan Senjata Nuklir (Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapon - TPNW). Dihasilkan oleh sebuah gerakan perlucutan senjata nuklir yang dimulai 10 tahun lalu dengan Konferensi tentang Dampak Kemanusiaan dari Senjata Nuklir, TPNW memperkuat rezim perlucutan senjata nuklir yang berlaku saat ini (Nuclear Weapons Non Proliferation Treaty - NPT). Indonesia adalah negara yang sangat aktif dalan memperjuangkan perlucutan senjata nuklir dan aktif dalan mendukung diadopsinya TPNW tahun 2017. Indonesia juga merupakan salah satu negara yang pertama menandatangani TPNW. Tetapi, hingga saat ini, Indonesia belum meratifikasi TPNW. Kapan dan mengapa Indonesia perlu meratifikasi Traktat Pelarangan Senjata Nuklir? Lucke Haryo Saptoaji dari Institute of International Studies UGM mendiskusikan diskursus Traktat Pelarangan Senjata Nuklir bersama dengan Muhadi Sugiono dari Departemen Ilmu Hubungan Internasional UGM. Saksikan diskusi mereka di Podcast HI Episode 58. --------------------------------------------------------------- MUSIC: Judul : [FREE FOR PROFIT] "Lucky" Happy Groovy background music/montage for vlogs no copyright - prod. OBI Channel : OBI Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Y6whi9r2w Track: Percussion And Stomps [Sports Music] by MokkaMusic / Take A Step https://youtu.be/9s_c1gYpyk8 Music provided by "MokkaMusic" channel and https://inaudio.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- YouTube: https://youtu.be/sP_sCaPcSo4

Nuclear Weapons & the UN Treaty to Ban Them: Ray Acheson This Week’s Featured Interview: Two years ago, October 24th 2020, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was ratified by the 50th member nation and thus qualified for implementation as international law. To mark this anniversary, we're revisiting an interview we...

Michaela Sørenen, a core member of Youth Fusion, had the honour of interviewing Dr. Becky Alexis-Martin, who has been involved with nuclear related issues for many years and has an impressive plethora of work on some pretty niche topics- which is what we love around here at Youth Fusion- we are all about niche and nuance! Just a quick snippet of information before we start, Dr. Becky was in Vienna for the MSP while this interview took place, and Michaela was fortunate enough to meet up with her there a few days later where they were on the same panel about The future of youth engagement with the TPNW! Dr. Becky Alexis-Martin is currently a Lecturer in Cultural and Political Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. On top of this, she is also the Principal Investigator of Nuclear Families, which is a large-scale, multidisciplinary social sciences project exploring the lives of British Nuclear test veterans and their families, as well as being the Principal Investigator of Atomic Atolls, a study that explores the colonial necropolitics of the South Pacific, among many other exciting things! Check out Dr. Alexis Martin's website at https://www.nucleargeography.com where she has a plethora of resources on nuclear related issues for you to read up on!

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Alignment Problem, published by lsusr on July 11, 2022 on LessWrong. Last month Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote "a poorly organized list of individual rants" about how AI is going to kill us all. In this post, I attempt to summarize the rants in my own words. These are not my personal opinions. This post is not the place for my personal opinions. Instead, this post is my attempt to write my understanding of Yudkowsky's opinions. I am much more optimistic about our future than Yudkowsky is. But that is not the topic of this post. Humanity is going to build an AGI as fast as we can. Humanity is probably going to build an AGI, and soon. But if an AGI is going to kill us all can't we choose to just not build an AGI? Nope! If humanity had the coordination ability to "just not build an AGI because an AGI is an existential threat" then we wouldn't have built doomsday weapons whose intended purpose is to be an existential threat. The first nuclear weapon was a proof of concept. The second and third nuclear bombs were detonated on civilian targets. "Choosing not to build an AGI" is much, much harder than choosing not to build nuclear weapons because: Nukes are physical. Software is digital. It is very hard to regulate information. Nukes are expensive. Only nation-states can afford them. This limits the number of actors who are required to coordinate. Nukes require either plutonium or enriched uranium, both of which are rare and which have a small number of legitimate uses. Datacenters meet none of those criteria. Uranium centrifuges are difficult to hide. Nuclear bombs and nuclear reactors are very different technologies. It is easy to build a nuclear reactor that cannot be easily converted into weapon use. A nuclear reactor will never turn into a nuclear weapon by accident. A nuclear weapon is not just a nuclear reactor that accidentally melted down. Nuclear weapons are the easiest thing in the world to coordinate on and (TPNW aside) humanity has mostly failed to do so. Maybe people will build narrow AIs instead of AGIs. We [humanity] will build the most powerful AIs we can. An AGI that combines two narrow AIs will be more powerful than both of the narrow AIs. This is because the hardest part of building an AGI is figuring out what representation to use. An AGI can do everything a narrow AI can do plus it gets transfer learning on top of that. Maybe building an AGI is really hard—so hard we won't build it this century. Maybe. But recent developments, especially at OpenAI, show that you can get really far just brute forcing the problem with a mountain of data and warehouse full of GPUs. The first AGI will, by default, kill everyone Despite AGIs being more useful than narrow AIs, the things we actually use machine learning for are narrow domains. But if you tell a superintelligent AGI to solve a narrow problem then it will sacrifice all of humanity and all of our future lightcone to solving that narrow problem. Because that's what you told it to do. Thus, every tech power in the world—from startups to nation-states—is racing as fast as we can to build a machine that will kill us all. But what if whoever wins the AGI race builds an aligned AGI instead of an unaligned AGI? Almost nobody (as a fraction of the people in the AI space) is trying to solve the alignment problem (which is a prerequisite to building an aligned AI). But let's suppose that the first team of people who build a superintelligence first decide not to turn the machine on and immediately surrender our future to it. Suppose they recognize the danger and decide not to press "run" until they have solved alignment. AI Alignment is really hard AI Alignment is stupidly, incredibly, absurdly hard. I cannot refute every method of containing an AI because there are an infinite number of systems that won't work. AI Alignment...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Alignment Problem, published by lsusr on July 11, 2022 on LessWrong. Last month Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote "a poorly organized list of individual rants" about how AI is going to kill us all. In this post, I attempt to summarize the rants in my own words. These are not my personal opinions. This post is not the place for my personal opinions. Instead, this post is my attempt to write my understanding of Yudkowsky's opinions. I am much more optimistic about our future than Yudkowsky is. But that is not the topic of this post. Humanity is going to build an AGI as fast as we can. Humanity is probably going to build an AGI, and soon. But if an AGI is going to kill us all can't we choose to just not build an AGI? Nope! If humanity had the coordination ability to "just not build an AGI because an AGI is an existential threat" then we wouldn't have built doomsday weapons whose intended purpose is to be an existential threat. The first nuclear weapon was a proof of concept. The second and third nuclear bombs were detonated on civilian targets. "Choosing not to build an AGI" is much, much harder than choosing not to build nuclear weapons because: Nukes are physical. Software is digital. It is very hard to regulate information. Nukes are expensive. Only nation-states can afford them. This limits the number of actors who are required to coordinate. Nukes require either plutonium or enriched uranium, both of which are rare and which have a small number of legitimate uses. Datacenters meet none of those criteria. Uranium centrifuges are difficult to hide. Nuclear bombs and nuclear reactors are very different technologies. It is easy to build a nuclear reactor that cannot be easily converted into weapon use. A nuclear reactor will never turn into a nuclear weapon by accident. A nuclear weapon is not just a nuclear reactor that accidentally melted down. Nuclear weapons are the easiest thing in the world to coordinate on and (TPNW aside) humanity has mostly failed to do so. Maybe people will build narrow AIs instead of AGIs. We [humanity] will build the most powerful AIs we can. An AGI that combines two narrow AIs will be more powerful than both of the narrow AIs. This is because the hardest part of building an AGI is figuring out what representation to use. An AGI can do everything a narrow AI can do plus it gets transfer learning on top of that. Maybe building an AGI is really hard—so hard we won't build it this century. Maybe. But recent developments, especially at OpenAI, show that you can get really far just brute forcing the problem with a mountain of data and warehouse full of GPUs. The first AGI will, by default, kill everyone Despite AGIs being more useful than narrow AIs, the things we actually use machine learning for are narrow domains. But if you tell a superintelligent AGI to solve a narrow problem then it will sacrifice all of humanity and all of our future lightcone to solving that narrow problem. Because that's what you told it to do. Thus, every tech power in the world—from startups to nation-states—is racing as fast as we can to build a machine that will kill us all. But what if whoever wins the AGI race builds an aligned AGI instead of an unaligned AGI? Almost nobody (as a fraction of the people in the AI space) is trying to solve the alignment problem (which is a prerequisite to building an aligned AI). But let's suppose that the first team of people who build a superintelligence first decide not to turn the machine on and immediately surrender our future to it. Suppose they recognize the danger and decide not to press "run" until they have solved alignment. AI Alignment is really hard AI Alignment is stupidly, incredibly, absurdly hard. I cannot refute every method of containing an AI because there are an infinite number of systems that won't work. AI Alignment...

Angelo Cardona is a multi-award-winning human rights defender, and peace and disarmament activist. He is representative of Latin America in the Council of the Nobel-peace prize-winning International Peace Bureau (IPB), Co-founder and President of the Ibero-American Alliance for Peace, member of the International Steering Committee of the Global Campaign on Military Spending, Youth for TPNW, peace ambassador of the Global Peace Chain, and Member of the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War.

On the first anniversary of the TPNW  we ask  Scottish CND how we will rid Scotland of Trident. All the British nuclear weapons are in Scotland at Faslane Naval Base just 30 miles from Glasgow.  By renewing and increasing the number of weapons on the Clyde, the Westminster administration is breaking international law.  In this first episode of our new monthly series "the Indy Jigsaw Show", hosts Marlene Halliday and Fiona McGregor consider what can be done to rid Scotland of this obscenity with guests Isobel Lindsay, Bill Ramsay and David Cairns from Scottish CND. You can contact us by email on Mibbesaye@independencelive.net or by twitter @ScottishIndyPod Music is Music: Motivational Upbeat Corporate by RinkevichMusic https://soundcloud.com/rinkevichmusic Video Link: https://youtu.be/U78mgVaM12M Contains information licensed under the Scottish Parliament Copyright Licence.  

It's the first anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to celebrate, co-host Michelle Dover sits down with Ambassador Elayne Whyte, former Costa Rican representative to the UN in Geneva, where she presided over the 2017 conference that negotiated and adopted the TPNW. On this special episode, she reflects on the treaty and discusses the path forward.

Il 22 gennaio 2021 entrava in vigore il TPNW, il Trattato di proibizione delle armi nucleari. Un anno dopo cosa è cambiato?

Today we link two events, the birthday of Dr. King and the anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. We hear Dr. King in his own words as he decries militarism in general and specifically nuclear weapons during his Nobel Peace Prize-winning lecture. We read an Op-Ed from the Oak Ridge Environment and Peace Alliance that links Dr. King with the TPNW and then we hear the words of Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the Nobel Prize-winning organization the pushed for the TPNW. We note that Veterans for Peace, in the spirit of Dr. King and the spirit of Peace are issuing our own Nuclear Posture Review before the Biden Administration issues theirs. We hear Dr. King's call to action and then we finish with Dr. King's favorite song, sung by Mahalia Jackson.

In conjunction with the movement to prevent the environmental impacts of armed conflict has come a growing recognition of the need to address the harm that has already occurred. Mine action, which aims to reduce the effects of landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW), provides a valuable model for assisting victims of and remediating the environment contaminated by toxic remnants of war (TRW). In this post, part of the War, Law and the Environment blog series with the Conflict and Environment Observatory, Bonnie Docherty of Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic and Human Rights Watch shows how mine action has influenced the positive obligations in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and argues that it should guide implementation of the TPNW and efforts to deal with TRW more broadly.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio., published by Luisa_Rodriguez on the Effective Altruism Forum. Summary Frustrated by the lack of progress on nuclear disamarment, a growing movement of government and civil society actors has emerged hoping to reignite efforts to move toward de-proliferation and disarmament. Out of this movement came the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), a legally-binding treaty that would prohibit party countries from possessing, using, threatening to use, hosting, testing, or developing nuclear weapons. The treaty would also forbid parties from contributing to or encouraging those activities, for example by aligning themselves with nuclear weapons states with the explicit aim of being shielded by a nuclear umbrella. In this post, I investigate whether the TPNW is likely to have an impact on nuclear deproliferation through formal legal channels — for example, by keeping countries that might have considered building nuclear weapons programs from doing so.[1] To do this, I first looked into whether any of the countries that are currently doing things that would be banned by the TPNW might ratify the treaty in the next 20 years (and stop doing those things). Next, I looked into whether the TPNW will keep any countries that ratify the treaty from becoming non-compliant — for example, by trying to get a sense of whether the treaty could counterfactually cause them not to pursue nuclear weapons. I came out feeling very pessimistic about the likelihood that countries that are non-compliant with the TPNW will ratify it, largely because none of the 40 non-compliant countries have signed or ratified the TPNW, and several have spoken out against it. Additionally, I'm somewhat pessimistic about the potential for the TPNW to causally influence the decision of TPNW supporters to pursue, host, or manufacture nuclear weapons, or to join a nuclear weapons alliance, though I have more uncertainty about this. This leads me to think that the TPNW is unlikely to have much of an impact on nuclear deproliferation through legal channels overall. That said, it's quite possible that the TPNW will have an impact on nuclear weapons policies through informal channels. I'll explore this possibility extensively in a future post. Project Overview This is the sixth post in Rethink Priorities' series on nuclear risks. In the first post, I look into which plausible nuclear exchange scenarios should worry us most, ranking them based on their potential to cause harm. In the second post, I explore the make-up and survivability of the US and Russian nuclear arsenals. In the third post, I estimate the number of people that would die as a direct result of a nuclear exchange between NATO states and Russia. In the fourth post, I estimate the severity of the nuclear famine we might expect to result from a NATO-Russia nuclear war. In the fifth post, I get a rough sense of the probability of nuclear war by looking at historical evidence, the views of experts, and predictions made by forecasters. In this post, explore the potential for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) to affect nuclear deproliferation through legal channels. Future work will explore the possible impacts of the TPNW on nuclear deproliferation through informal channels — things like norm-shifting — as well as the direct and indirect effects of nuclear exchanges between (1) India and Pakistan and (2) China and its adversaries, the contradictory research around nuclear winter. The Rationale for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Nuclear de-proliferation was enormously successful from the late 80s to the early 2000s. Following the Cold War, a series of bilateral t...

Seth Shelden '98 is the United Nations liaison for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The coalition was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 2017 for its work to bring about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The TPNW outlaws the use, testing, development, production, possession, and transfer of nuclear weapons, and it outlines how countries can destroy their own stockpiles. It also stipulates victim assistance, environmental remediation, and other humanitarian efforts as part of each participating country's obligations.Seth is also a partner in the law firm of Farkas & Neurman, an adjunct professor at the City University of New York School of Law, and vice president of Ground UP Productions. The alumnus received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a major in international studies (with concentrations in economics and peace, war, and defense). He earned his J.D. from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2002.Seth offers insights on Biden's projected nuclear arms policy, how U.S. universities serve as research and development pipelines, and what anyone can do to divest from companies involved in building and maintaining nuclear weapons. ICAN reports, resources, and other references mentioned in the episode:Complicit: 2020 global nuclear weapons spendingSchools of Mass Destruction: American Universities in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons ComplexTake the University Pledge Don't Bank on the Bomb projectCities Appeal (#ICANSAVEMYCITY) The Doomsday Clock Follow ICAN on Twitter,  Facebook, and Instagram. You can follow Seth on Twitter.Episode CreditsThe intro music for this episode is by Scott Hallyburton '22, guitarist of the band South of the Soul. The outro song, “On the Island,” is by the artist Godmode. 

Rebecca Johnson, Ward Wilson, and Danny Harvey see this decade as decisive for solving nuclear weapons and the climate. Must a country quit NATO to join TPNW? For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/361-nuclear-nato-and-climate/

In this episode, Dr. Gwyn McClelland (UNE) discusses Japan's refusal to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons despite outspoken criticism from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, before introducing the complex history of anti-nuclear movements in Nagasaki and touching on local responses to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

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January 22, 2021 marks the day when the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force. To help usher in this historic moment, we are joined by Anti-nuclear activist Vanda Prošková of the Czech Republic, co-convener of Youth Fusion, a global network that engages and educates young people regarding the nuclear threat. In this show, we discuss not only the spirit and purpose of the Treaty found in its preamble, but also some of the duties that signatories of the TPNW must undertake such as absolute prohibition of these weapons and assistance to both victims and the environment that have been harmed through nuclear testing.

Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons passes into international law as of Friday, January 22, 2021! SPECIAL FEATURE: Nuclear Hotseat at 500!  A look back featuring excerpts from: NOTE:  This is not an all-inclusive rundown of episodes, just a saunter through some moments that have stuck with me from the first 9-1/2 years of Nuclear Hotseat...

_[...]desidero avanzare alcune proposte concrete relative a quattro ambiti principali._ _Il primo riguarda il *trattato per la proibizione delle armi nucleari* (TPNW). *E' della massima importanza che entri in vigore quest'anno* in cui cade il 75° anniversario dei bombardamenti di Hiroshima e Nagasaki...._ quando lo scorso 25 ottobre il trattato è stato ratificato dalla 50ma nazione ed è entrato in vigore in tutto il mondo ho sentito nettamente la gioia di Sensei davanti al Gohonzon. E' stata un'emozione grandissima. Dobbiamo sostenere questa battaglia perchè anche l'italia ratifichi il trattato ed entri nella rosa delle nazioni. quando sensei ha scritto la proposta di pace questa cosa era ancora una speranza. Oggi leggiamo le sue parole avendo nel cuore questa grande vittoria Con gratitudine.... Buon ascolto

The very first article of the American Journal of International Law, page 1, volume 1 issue 1 is titled “The Need of Popular Understanding of International Law.” Written by Elihu Root and published in 1907, the article lays out the case for why basic understanding of International Law is necessary for world in which democracy is becoming the norm and in which international peace-through-law is the goal. Elihu Root won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912. One hundred and five years later (in 2017), The International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the organization responsible for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), was awarded this same prize. In this show, we discuss highlights of Root's essay, its relevance and legacy, and connect it to some of the basic provisions of the TPNW which takes effect in January 2021. Our aim in this show is to convey the importance of education of basic international law for the project of International Peace and the protection of Human Dignity, and how the TPNW is a crucial piece of this project.

Opened for signature in 2017, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) recently reached an historic milestone when Honduras became the 50th country to ratify the Multilateral Treaty that prohibits its signatures from developing, using and threatening to use nuclear weapons. In effect, the Treaty “bans” its signatory states from possessing nuclear weapons. But what about those states which possess massive nuclear arsenals that have not signed on, including Russia and the U.S.? This show is an introduction to the Treaty which does not take effect until 2021. We focus on some International Law basics, the language of the preamble, and other legal instruments aimed at nuclear non-proliferation.