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Challenging Nuclearism: The Nuclear Ban Treaty Assessed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Richard Falk
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Abstract

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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 powers, and its possible contribution to nuclear disarmament.

Keywords

Nuclear Ban Treaty (NBT)nuclearismUnited NationsNuclear Non-Proliferation TreatyUnited Statesnuclear powersdisarmament
Type
Research Article
Information
Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 14 , July 2017 , e5
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