01/03/2021
Ban the bomb becomes law, by Henry Lowendorf⠀
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"Arguably the first step in half a century to eliminate nuclear weapons, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) makes it internationally illegal to “develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess, or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.”⠀
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At the United Nations in 2017, 122 countries, none of them possessing nuclear weapons, negotiated and voted for the TPNW, which required 50 nations to ratify it before becoming law. On October 24, 2020, Honduras became the 50th country to ratify the historic nuclear weapons–ban treaty. The Treaty goes into force on January 22, 2021.⠀
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Abolishing nuclear weapons has been a goal for much of the human race since the United States first disclosed them by incinerating two cities in Japan at the end of World War II in 1945.⠀
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On two days in August 75 years ago, nearly a quarter of a million Japanese were vaporized instantly or died horribly within hours or days after the U.S. exploded atomic bombs in the midst of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The scale of such quickfire mass slaughter by nuclear war is hard to comprehend."⠀
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