Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

In the Middle of the Pandemic, Nuclear-Weapons Spending Shot Up, a New Report Says

• June 22, 2021

In 2020, during one of the worst global pandemics in recent history, killing more than three million people that year from the Covid-19 virus, nine nuclear-armed countries spent $72.6 billion on bolstering and modernizing their arsenals, at a rate of more than $137,000 a minute. That is a $1.4 billion increase over 2019, according …

Disarmament, Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament

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The Nuclear Ban Treaty Enters Into Force, 75 Years After Hiroshima

Dali ten Hove

• January 22, 2021

THE HAGUE — An international agreement that bans nuclear weapons became operational on Jan. 22, more than 75 years after the detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki heralded the atomic age. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or Nuclear Ban Treaty for short, was negotiated in 2017 and reached enough ratifications on Oct. …

Disarmament, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, US-UN Relations

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The UK Flip-Flops on Gender Wording in UN Disarmament Discussions

Laura E. Kirkpatrick

• October 15, 2018

Negotiations in the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee, which concentrates on disarmament, caused a Twitter row late last week after wording on gender stirred up strong feelings between powerful nongovernmental organizations and Britain, surprising other countries as well. The committee’s informal consultations, as they are technically called, are currently focusing on updating an …