By Alice Slater, World BEYOND War https://worldbeyondwar.org/watch-out-world-peace-may-be-breaking-out/ Less than a week or so before Donald Trump’s groundbreaking meeting planned with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the NATO summit in mid-July, the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons celebrated its first birthday on July 7 when 122 nations voted a year…
SUNDAY, JUNE 17: Northampton Friends Meeting (Quakers) today became the first faith community in the country to declare their compliance with the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (or Nuclear Ban Treaty). The Nuclear Ban Treaty, adopted by 122 nations at the United Nations last year, comprehensively prohibits, under international law, the development,…
JUNE 20: The Presbyterian Church (USA) has issued a call to all its members “to take all actions such as might be effective in requiring full US compliance with the obligation to achieve nuclear disarmament under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…” The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest…
MONDAY, 11 June: At a press conference in Singapore this morning, ahead of the historic meeting between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), unveiled a 5-Step ‘Roadmap’ for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. “Our roadmap answers the question at the heart of…
The issue of nuclear weapons is deeply connected to issues of imperialism, racial and gender inequality, and environmental justice. Part of what makes the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons a game changer is its emphasis on the humanitarian consequences of these weapons. This humanitarian focus has helped elucidate the connections between nuclear…
Berkeley has become the second city in the US to proclaim itself ‘in compliance’ with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, following Takoma Park, Maryland, who made a similar declaration last month. Takoma Park received their ‘certificate of treaty compliance’ at a small ceremony in the United Nations building on May 14th. The…
MAY 14 – Fifty campaigners from across the US joined together yesterday in Brooklyn to launch a national campaign in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This Treaty, which prohibits the development, testing, production, deployment, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons, and requires environmental remediation and assistance to victims…
More than 100 countries have been meeting in Geneva over the past two weeks to prepare for the next Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This annual ritual is one of the rare occasions when the nuclear-armed nations sit down with the rest of the world to discuss progress towards achieving the goals of…
More than 100 countries have been meeting in Geneva over the past two weeks to prepare for the next Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This annual ritual is one of the rare occasions when the nuclear-armed nations sit down with the rest of the world to discuss progress towards achieving the goals of…
Last week, I had the privilege of attending, on behalf of NuclearBan.US, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) campaigners’ meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting brought together over 130 ICAN campaigners from around the world to discuss campaign progress and strategy for making the United Nations Nuclear Ban Treaty successful. Since 122 nations…
