Last year, the General Assembly voted by a large majority (Resolution 258 on 23 December 2016) to convene in 2017 a United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination…… Read More 2017: A ban on nuclear weapons or “fake news”?
For the first time in the 70-year history of the Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved the hands of the iconic clock 30 seconds closer to midnight…… Read More It is now two and a half minutes to midnight
The United Nations today adopted a landmark resolution to launch negotiations in 2017 on a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. This historic decision heralds an end to two decades of paralysis in multilateral nuclear disarmament efforts…… Read More ICAN: UN votes to outlaw nuclear weapons in 2017