None of the nine nuclear powers, including the United States, has signed the treaty.
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Nina Preheim, Duluth | 11:43 am, Jan. 26, 2021 ×
The United Nations-proposed Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons became international law on Jan. 22, and more than 50 nations have ratified it.
None of the nine nuclear powers, including the United States, has signed the treaty. Ours is one of the countries which has not openly advocated for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and we have not endorsed this treaty. There is a growing popular movement among all nations of the world, including the U.S., to commit to this. There are many good reasons why the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, was the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Policy Approaches Addressing the Ongoing Humanitarian and Environmental Consequences of Nuclear Weapons: A Commentary, Wiley Online Library Nate Van Duzer Alicia Sanders‐Zakre 20 January 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12870 Abstract The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) not only bans nuclear weapons, it obligates its states parties to engage in assisting victims and remediating contaminated environments…
IT has become the symbolic timepiece that measures humanity’s proximity to Armageddon. It was almost exactly a year ago now that Rachel Bronson, CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) lifted a black cloth on the annual Doomsday Clock to reveal that its hands rested at 100 seconds to midnight. Never since the clock’s first appearance in 1947 during the Cold War has it come so close to the supposed doomsday annihilation represented by the 12am hour. According to BAS the bringing forward of the clock’s hands to its most alarming closeness ever to that fatal time was made due to nuclear proliferation, failure to tackle climate change and cyber-based disinformation.
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