https://www.youtube.com/embed/xoK-2rinens?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv load policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent First Native American nominated to US cabinet position From tears to joy Beyond Nuclear International .......“A new scintilla of hope has bloomed among us in part because Haaland, like millions of Indigenous peoples, strongly believes in and practices the Seven Generation rule,” wrote Moya-Smith. “The rule says that all significant decisions must be made…
David Lowry’s Blog 10th Jan 2021, A paranoid president and 7,000 plutonium warheads. Of all the issues raised by the Trump boycott of the inauguration of Joe Biden as President on 20 January, the issue of how the codes that control the launch of US nuclear weapons is the most pressing and terrifying. Here are…
The National 16th Jan 2021, HELENSBURGH CND’s Beyond Nuclear conference was postponed twice last year due to the pandemic. But the event will now be taking place virtually on January 31, from 11am to 4.30pm. To be staged by virtual event group Cameron, Beyond Nuclear is designed to answer the question: “Why would we in…
David Lowry’s Blog 15th Jan 2021, I have spent the past few days engaged in an excellent webinar on nuclear waste and information disclosure, titled: Aarhus convention and nuclear (acn) round table on radioactive waste management (rwm), online 13-15 January 2021 The promotional blurb reads “The European Commission (DG ENER) and Nuclear Transparency Watch (NTW)…
My Turn: Entry into Force Day? Yes, we ban!
Published: 1/18/2021 3:25:16 PM
Our country is shaken by the attempted take-over of Congress on Jan. 6. The threat posed by armed white supremacists is real.
So is the danger of nuclear weapons, even if for most of us, it is out of sight, out of mind.
Yet as we await the Biden-Harris inauguration on Jan. 20, others around the world are preparing to celebrate a different ‘new start’: the so-called “Entry into Force Day.”
The force being entered into is not military or dangerous, but international, civilian and life-protecting. For Jan. 22 is the day that the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force, becoming law now that 50 of the 122 countries signing in 2017 have officially ratified it.