🔥 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.
Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. "We're seeing really dramatic moves, and it's all really tied to Ukraine right now, and in a secondary way, in terms of interest rates," Octavio Marenzi, CEO of Opimas, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. "This war in Ukraine is going to give the Fed the ammunition, the cover that it needs, to not raise interest rates too quickly. And I think Jay Powell is a very tepid sort of inflation fighter and he's not going to do as much as he needs to do to get that under control. And this seems like an excuse to kick the can further down the road still and not do too much too soon." But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat. But Telegram says people want to keep their chat history when they get a new phone, and they like having a data backup that will sync their chats across multiple devices. And that is why they let people choose whether they want their messages to be encrypted or not. When not turned on, though, chats are stored on Telegram's services, which are scattered throughout the world. But it has "disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments," Telegram states on its website. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields.
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