Report from Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security shared via Newsletter | 07 May 2025
We were privileged to play the leading role in organizing “SOME WAY OUT OF HERE: Disarming Nuclear Powers & Preventing Proliferation” side event at the United Nations during the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty PrepCom. The session featured Yayoi Tsuchda, the Assistant General Secretary of Gensuiko, the Japan Council against A- & H- Bombs, Dr. Marco Marzo, Secretary General of the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Weapons; and John Burroughs the senior analyst and former Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy.
Their talks covered the current state of the increasing nuclear danger, plans for marking August’s 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombings, the fascinating history of the tensions and diplomacy that led to the creation of the ground-breaking Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Weapons, and a taking stock of the achievements and challenges to the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
You can access John Burroughs’ history of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, its achievements and limitations by clicking the following link.
Marco Marzo’s recounting of the Argentine-Brazilian nuclear arms race during dictatorships, the diplomacy leading to their treaty, and its ramifications can be read by clicking the following link.
The video of the side event is posted at the end of the Marzo text.
