🔥 Back in the year 2017, the global security agenda was shaken by the debates held at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that led to the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) that should have set a framework towards the world, free of nuclear weapons. It has been the consecutive inherently political move forward, following the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons initiative.
🔎 Yet, the discourse around the novel legal framework among scholars has been intense, gripped over an argument that the TPNW may spark nuclear-armed states to intensify the political measuring of nuclear weapons as a deterrence factor essential for national security. Even though some scholars tend to think positively about the Treaty, it seems reasonable to record that it has been out of the loop since 2017.
⚡️ The ongoing modernization of nuclear forces in Russia, China, the United States, and the UK, along with the recent Russian withdrawal (2023) of its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) have demonstrated the untimeliness of the TPNW. The heating tensions worldwide have revoked the decisiveness of nuclear weapons. Exempt from nuclear-armed states, those states that have the potential of acquiring nukes (listed in the Annex II of the CTBT) seem to approach the TPNW skeptically as well.
👤 More about the TPNW and why the Treaty has become an unwanted legal instrument can be found in the article by Maksim Sorokin, PIR Center Information & Publications Program Coordinator and Editor of the "Yaderny Control" E-Bulletin.
🔥 Back in the year 2017, the global security agenda was shaken by the debates held at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that led to the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) that should have set a framework towards the world, free of nuclear weapons. It has been the consecutive inherently political move forward, following the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons initiative.
🔎 Yet, the discourse around the novel legal framework among scholars has been intense, gripped over an argument that the TPNW may spark nuclear-armed states to intensify the political measuring of nuclear weapons as a deterrence factor essential for national security. Even though some scholars tend to think positively about the Treaty, it seems reasonable to record that it has been out of the loop since 2017.
⚡️ The ongoing modernization of nuclear forces in Russia, China, the United States, and the UK, along with the recent Russian withdrawal (2023) of its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) have demonstrated the untimeliness of the TPNW. The heating tensions worldwide have revoked the decisiveness of nuclear weapons. Exempt from nuclear-armed states, those states that have the potential of acquiring nukes (listed in the Annex II of the CTBT) seem to approach the TPNW skeptically as well.
👤 More about the TPNW and why the Treaty has become an unwanted legal instrument can be found in the article by Maksim Sorokin, PIR Center Information & Publications Program Coordinator and Editor of the "Yaderny Control" E-Bulletin.
"We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” "The argument from Telegram is, 'You should trust us because we tell you that we're trustworthy,'" Maréchal said. "It's really in the eye of the beholder whether that's something you want to buy into." Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. That hurt tech stocks. For the past few weeks, the 10-year yield has traded between 1.72% and 2%, as traders moved into the bond for safety when Russia headlines were ugly—and out of it when headlines improved. Now, the yield is touching its pandemic-era high. If the yield breaks above that level, that could signal that it’s on a sustainable path higher. Higher long-dated bond yields make future profits less valuable—and many tech companies are valued on the basis of profits forecast for many years in the future.
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