UNITED NATIONS DATES:
Commemorations affirmed by the United Nations General Assembly
- January 24: Anniversary of UN General Assembly Resolution 1 (1). A consensus resolution on the elimination of nuclear weapons and other WMD.
- August 29: International Day Against Nuclear Tests. (Anniversary of the first Soviet nuclear test in 1949 and the date of closing the Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan in 1991)
- September 21: International Day for Peace
- September 26: International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
- October 24-30: UN Disarmament Week
OTHER KEY DATES
- March 1: Nuclear Remembrance Day (a day for acknowledging the victims of nuclear tests. Anniversary of the largest US nuclear test conducted in the Marshall Islands)
- Mid-April: Global days of action on military spending
- May 24: International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament
- Second week of June: Global Week of Action on Gun Violence
- July 9: International Gun Destruction Day
- August 6: Anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
- August 9: Anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki
- November 30: Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare (the day is established by the Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention)
