PRESS RELEASE – ADVANCE NOTICE

HISTORIC NUCLEAR BAN TREATY TO BE SIGNED SEPTEMBER 20 As many as 150 nations are expected to sign a new treaty to ban nuclear weapons on September 20, 2017. The special signing ceremony will involve presidents and prime ministers from around the world and will take place at the United Nations in New York. The…

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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted by 122 UN member nations on July 7, 2017. The treaty criminalizes, for the first time under international law, not only the use of nuclear weapons but also the threat of use, as well as any development, production, testing, acquisition, stockpiling, transfer, deployment of nuclear weapons or…

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