by Yanis Iqbal / February 1st, 2021
On January 22, 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) became international law for the 122 states who signed the agreement in July 2017. Article 1a of TPNW states: “Each State Party undertakes never under any circumstances to… Develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.”
Initiated by a cross-regional group comprising Austria, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, Nigeria and South Africa, the TPNW was approved by the United Nations General Assembly by a vote of 122-1. The treaty required that 50 signatory nations officially ratify it before it could become international law. That happened on October 24, 2020, when Honduras became the fiftieth country to do so. And then 90 days had to pass, which occurred on January 22.
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A key official in the Obama administration in charge of nuclear security says the five major nuclear powers erred in refusing a seat at the table for discussions on a U.N. treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
Former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said he believes the five major powers made a mistake in not joining the talks that eventually led to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Moniz, a nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, served as energy secretary under then U.S. President Barack Obama between May 2013 and January 2017.
In an online interview with The Asahi Shimbun on Jan. 6, Moniz talked about the United States and the four other major nuclear powers skipping out on the TPNW discussions.
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