A too well kept secret

Posted: 26th January 2022

Late January of this year will mark the first anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This momentous international agreement, the result of a lengthy struggle by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and by many non-nuclear nations, bans developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, and threatening to use nuclear weapons. Adopted by an overwhelming vote of the official representatives of the world’s nations at a UN conference in July 2017, the treaty was subsequently signed by 86 nations. It received the required 50 national ratifications by lateOctober 2020, and, on January 22, 2021, became international law. Beyond Nuclear 24th Jan 2022  https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2022/01/24/a-too-well-kept-secret/