The beginning of the end for nuclear weapons
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UN Nuclear Weapons Ban Begins, Nobel Winner Asks Joe Biden to Abandon Them
On 1/22/21 at 4:58 PM EST
A Nobel Peace Prize winner is calling on President Joe Biden to reverse his predecessors nuclear buildup and give up his strategic arsenal entirely, as a landmark United Nations treaty outlawing the world s most powerful weapons of mass destruction comes into effect.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into effect Friday, amounting to the world s first legally binding international agreement to ban the development of nuclear weapons and seek their total elimination.
It comes into force just two days after the inauguration of a new U.S. president.
First-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons enters into force
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However, the NATO alliance and the 9 nuclear-armed countries have strongly opposed the move
The first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons entered into force on Friday, hailed as a historic step to rid the world of its deadliest weapons but strongly opposed by the world’s nuclear-armed nations.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is now part of international law, culminating a decades-long campaign aimed at preventing a repetition of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. But getting all nations to ratify the treaty requiring them to never own such weapons seems daunting, if not impossible, in the current global climate.
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