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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.
Biden s foreign policy challenges, from Iran s nuclear program to Russian hacking Sean D. Naylor
When President Biden was sworn in shortly before noon on Wednesday, he inherited a host of foreign policy challenges from former President Donald Trump. Most he would have recognized from his time as vice president, but all of them have evolved in the meantime.
Biden’s predecessor in the White House can point to a few foreign policy achievements on his watch. These include the Abraham Accords, which established peaceful relations between Israel and several Arab countries; the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; and the destruction of that group’s self-styled physical caliphate. But Trump’s attempts to charm North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un into giving up his nuclear weapons were an abject failure, and his withdrawal from the World Health Organization and decision to engage in a trade war with China have left a lot of pieces for the Biden admini
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