Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest. 11.12.23

Posted: 11th December 2023

The states that are parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons met at the UN in New York City in late November and sent a resounding message to the nuclear weapon countries that “nuclear possession in not ‘exceptional’ and does not stand above and beyond international law.” 

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Tom Unterrrainer, chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, reports on his experience at the recent UN Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). “The TPNW represents many things: a ‘work in progress’, a part of international law, a mechanism for the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons and similar. What it represents politically, at the time of coming into force and since, is a full-frontal rejection of ‘nuclearism’ and a challenge to the nuclear-armed world.”READ MORE

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