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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Antinuclear activist march to mark the second anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in New York, January 20, 2023. - The TPNW, the first legally binding international agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons, entered into force on January 22, 2021. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Nuclear deterrence is the existential threat, not the nuclear ban treaty

By Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Xanthe Hall, Ira Helfand, Mays Smithwick | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A scene from the 2023 Victory Day Parade in Moscow. Source: President of the Russian Federation.

Why a nuclear weapons ban would threaten, not save, humanity

By Zachary Kallenborn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

How passport privilege undermines the nuclear ban treaty

By Olamide Samuel | Nuclear Weapons

Campaigner holding up a copy of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

A strong multilateral system must live up to commitments on nuclear disarmament

By Ernesto Zedillo | Nuclear Weapons

Erico Platt looks at the disarmament exhibition that she staged in 2022, "Three Quarters of a Century After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Hibakusha—Brave Survivors Working for a Nuclear-Free World." Photo by UNODA/Diane Barnes.

Respect for hibakusha, and hope in younger generations

By Masako Toki | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

How disagreements over Russia’s nuclear threats could derail the NPT Review Conference

By Jamie​ Kwong | Nuclear Weapons

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addressing The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Sept. 26th, 2019. Credit: Bones Donovan accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Legal and political myths of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

By David A. Koplow, Edward M. Ifft | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

TPNW book of signatures

The real value of the nuclear ban treaty

By Carl Robichaud, Karim Kamel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Turn back the Clock: The nuclear ban treaty is entering into force

By Talei Luscia Mangioni, Alicia Sanders-Zakre | Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Weapons

TPNW book of signatures

The responsibility to disarm and the nuclear ban treaty

By Ramesh Thakur | Nuclear Weapons

Moment of the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nucler Weapons, July 7, 2017. (Photo: Clare Conboy/ICAN)

Why the United States should support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

By William J. Perry | Nuclear Weapons

TPNW book of signatures

Global nuclear policy is stuck in colonialist thinking. The ban treaty offers a way out.

By Molly Hurley | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow