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Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons

Fifty countries have now ratified the treaty, so it will become international law. The United States and the eight other nuclear-armed powers reject it but have failed to stop its advance.

The United Nations announced late Saturday that the ratification threshold had been achieved, a little more than three years after the treaty was completed in negotiations at the organization’s New York headquarters. Secretary General António Guterres said the 50th ratification was “the culmination of a worldwide movement to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons.”

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/world/americas/nuclear-weapons-prohibition-treaty.html

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/25/now-that-nuclear-weapons-are-the-pacific-demands-truth-on-decades-of-testing

• https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/voices/nuclear-weapons-treaty-prohibition-trump-japan-russia-cold-war-b1345913.html

ICAN @nuclearban

October 24, 2020

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The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons just reached 50 ratifications. On 22 January 2021, the ban on nuclear weapons will come into force. The #nuclearban is here.

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