August 4, 2017 Dear It has been only six months since Donald Trump arrived at the White House. Already, the future of several landmark nuclear weapons agreements is less certain. Worse still, Congress is on the verge of enacting legislation that would undermine proven arms control solutions and open the door to renewed nuclear weapons…
Challenging Nuclearism: The Nuclear Ban Treaty Assessed
-Richard Falk Abstract On 7 July 2017 122 countries at the UN voted to approve the text of a proposed international treaty entitled ‘Draft Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.’ This article assesses the significance of broad international support for the draft treaty, the opposition to it on the part of all nine nuclear…
