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On October 24, 2020, Honduras the 50th country to ratify the treaty, which will now go into effect on January 22, 2021.
In your estimation, then, what is the likelihood that Biden does any or all of these things when he takes office come January 2021?
Sorensen: Sure, he could do all of those. Unfortunately, given the makeup of his Pentagon transition team, as we talked about,
I don t see him doing any of those. Now, I hope to be proven wrong.
But there are literally career militants and not just career militants, but career war profiteers, people who ride the revolving door in and around the military-industrial-congressional complex their whole adult lives
‘Good news’ in journey to rid world of nuclear: Green MEP for Offaly
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Anti-nuclear activist, MEP Grace O’Sullivan welcomes breakthrough, saying ‘there’s still a long way to go though.’
It’s over 75 years since the appalling news broke that the heavily-populated Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been the victims of nuclear attack. These were the dramatic actions that earmarked the closing days of our second World War.
The impacts of the bombs, so sickeningly dubbed Little Boy and Fat Man, were ferocious.
The playful name tags belied the cruel efficiency with which those man-made harbingers of death undertook their assigned duty. In the immediate wake of the explosions over 200,000 people perished. Many others were left with horrific, life-changing injuries. Pictures of the gnarled flesh of people who suffered severe thermal burns are as disturbing today as they were then.
The End of Nuclear Arms 2021 23.02.2021 - San José de Costa Rica - Redacción Costa Rica
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By Mitzi Stark (WILPF) and Giovanny Blanco (World Without Warsand Violence)
The 22ndof January, 2021 became an important day in history when Honduras became the 50thcountry to ratify the United Nations’ Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Arms. This treaty, now in force, makes nuclear arms, their development, storage and use illegal and is the first concrete step to putting an end to most deadly threat to life in history.
What does this mean to us in Costa Rica and for all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, small countries without power on the world stage? The whole world is aware of the massive death and destruction that occurred when the United States dropped atomic