Paris, April 1st, 2020. In a media release from the Elysée Palace, it is revealed that France’s Head of State has decided to implement Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which France joined on 2 Agust, 1992. As soon as the current lockdowns end and victory is achieved over the coronavirus, the President of the Republic will invite to Paris the heads of the 9 countries that have nuclear weapons, the so-called P5 + 4, in order to negotiate the complete and controlled elimination (...)

At the time when France’s president Emmanuel Macron explained his vision of deterrence, on February 7, five parliamentarians and the president of the citizens’ group ACDN ( Action des citoyens pour le désarmement nucléaire) wrote an op-ed for « Le Monde » calling for direct consultation with the French people. Also, a draft bill about this has been signed by 42 parliamentarieis of all political stripes.
Source: Le Monde (14/2/2020). Article reserved for subscribers. Reading time 3 min.
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The Doomsday Clock, ever since its creation in 1947 at the University of Chicago by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been giving midnight as the symbolic time-location for the end of the world. We move closer or further away as a function of nuclear, ecological and technological risks, and international tensions.
At the start of the 1990s, after the Berlin Wall came down and the Cold War ended, the minute hand moved back to 17 minutes to midnight.
But since that decade ended, (...)