Hiroshima Report 2023Chronology (January-December 2022)
Jan | “Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races” (3rd) “Japan-U.S. Joint Statement on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)” (21st) |
Feb |
Russia launched invasion of Ukraine (24th) |
Mar | U.S. and Russia established a deconfliction hotline to avoid accidental conflict (1st) IAEA held The Conference of the Parties to the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (A/CPPNM) (Vienna) (28~1st Apr) Russia took control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station (4th) |
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May | Sweden and Finland applied for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership (15th) |
Jun | The 2022 Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (20th) The First Meeting of States parties of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) (21~23rd) NATO adopted the NATO 2022 Strategic Concept (29~30th) |
Jul | Russia delivered the submarine Belgorod, the largest atomic submarine (8th) |
Aug | The Tenth Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference (UN headquarter, New York) (1~26th) Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (6th) Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony (9th) Russia halt U.S. inspection based on New-START treaty (14th) |
Sep | North Korea adopted the Law on Policy on Nuclear Forces (9th) The High-Level Meeting of the Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (Vienna) (21st) The 66th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (26~30th) |
Oct | U.S. released the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) (27th) |
Nov | The Third session of the Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction (New York) (14~18th) |
Dec | Japan adopted and released the new “National Security Strategy (NSS)” (16th) The First Meeting of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons (Hiroshima) (10~11th) |