Saturday, October 24 marked the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, years after the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, October 24 will go down in history as the day nuclear weapons were declared illegal with UN ratification. Arms Ban Treaty.
The United Nations was founded to publicize global peace and security. There is no greater existential risk to our peace and security than the nuclear weapons lifestyle, and they are now prohibited.
When Honduras signed the 50th ratification of the treaty last Saturday, the world ruled and the global network banned these harmful maximum weapons because in the past it had banned other weapons of mass destruction: chemical, biological, landmines and cluster munitions.
This treaty arose after years of stagnation and slow motion towards the disarmament of nuclear nations, which were linked by a 50-year treaty through Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to paintings of “good faith” to abolish their nuclear arsenals. With this existing treaty, nuclear weapons are now illegal and countries that own, store, develop, finance or threaten their use will now violate foreign law.
The motion that led to this treaty has been happening literally for years.
Due to the intransigence of nuclear nations to meet their obligations, a series of 3 meetings abroad were convened. These meetings addressed the humanitarian effect of nuclear weapons, demonstrating the prospect of a global nuclear famine of even a limited regional nuclear war and the fact that, like the climate, the effects of nuclear weapons did not recognize national borders, but had prospective catastrophic global effects.
The assemblies were held in Oslo, Norway, in 2013, followed in February 2014 through a momentary convention in Nayarit, Mexico, with a final assembly in Vienna, Austria, in December 2014, which for the first time included representatives of the United States and the United Kingdom. All 3 were followed through delegations from the International Committee of the Red Cross and representatives of Pope Francis. Hill’s Morning Report: Biden travels to Arizona, talks to Democratic leaders; Trump Tweets Hill Crusade Report: Republican Senators Say Biden Deserves Briefings l Biden Talks with COVID l Democratic Leaders Where the Circular of the Moment in Georgia Biden meets with Pope Francis PLUS and is organized in cooperation with the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, a coalition of civil society teams that won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for this work.
At the final conference, the Austrian government presented the “Humanitarian Commitment”, which promised to extend a treaty banning nuclear weapons, followed in 2017, when the United Nations held meetings to negotiate a treaty that would, for the first time, take into account the legacy of the nuclear age, adding to the fitness effects of the Hibakusha, those affected by nuclear bombardment and those affected by nuclear , control and progression of these weapons. The disproportionate effect on girls, women and the elderly and indigenous people. Communities living near nuclear weapons control sites were noted. ratification on 20 September 2017.
With the 50th ratification last Saturday, the treaty will enter into force in 90 days, on 22 January. At that time, nuclear weapons will continue to exist, but the global network will have a tough new tool to stigmatize countries that continue to own them. and monetary establishments and companies that finance and expand these weapons. Each of us has a role to play in the abolition of these weapons. Our individual role is necessarily a big or small paper, it’s our role and it’s vital.
In the United States, there is a base motion that runs through the country and is supported by medical, scientific, devout and NGO communities, such as the foreign ICAN crusade. This popular “Back from the Brink” crusade was approved in 47 cities, adding Los Angeles, six state legislative bodies, adding the California Assembly and Senate, and 344 organizations. This call to save him from nuclear war supports the Prohibition Treaty and calls on the United States to lead a global effort through:
1) Give up the nuclear weapons option first
2) End any president’s only out-of-control authority to launch a nuclear attack
3) Remove U. S. nuclear weapons from hair-activated alert
4) Cancellation of the plan to upgrade your arsenal with forward weapons
(5) Actively seek a verifiable agreement between nuclear-weapon States on their nuclear arsenals.
The Nutransparent Weapons Ban Treaty sends a transparent message to nations around the world that Nutransparent weapons threaten the survival of all humanity and will have to be eliminated before we eliminate ourselves.
The United States will have to accede to this treaty and stick to the transparent path to non-transparent abolition set out in the Back from the Brink campaign. More importantly, it will have to declare unequivocally that it is in fact seeking the security of the global, without non-transparent weapons, and will have to actively continue negotiations with other States with non-transparent weapons in order to achieve an enforceable, verifiable and time-limiting agreement to dismantle the remaining 14,000 non-transparent warheads in today’s world. Such an effort will have to be the highest national security priority in the United States.
Robert Dodge, MD, is a physician on the family circle in Ventura, California, is chairman of Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (www. psr-la. org) and serves on the National Council as co-chair of The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons of National Physicians for Social Responsibility (www. psr. org) Physicians for Social Responsibility Committee received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize and is a spouse of ICAN , winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Ira Helfand, M. D. , is a member of ICAN’s International Steering Group, winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize and co-chair of Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War, winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
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