The Guardian: Treaty to ban nuclear weapons made official with 50th UN signatoryHonduras just ratified the Treaty as the 50th state, triggering entry into force and making history! Thank you @CancilleriaHN @lisandrorosales, and thank you to all governments, organisations and activists around the world that has made this happen: https://t.co/5EqzWNEVzX
— ICAN (@nuclearban) October 24, 2020
Production, use and stockpiling of nuclear weapons illegal from January 2021 though nuclear-armed states have not signed up
An international treaty banning nuclear weapons has been ratified by a 50th country, the UN has said, allowing the historic though essentially symbolic text to enter into force after 90 days.
While nuclear powers have not signed up to the treaty, activists who have pushed for its enactment hold out hope that it will prove to be more than symbolic and have a gradual deterrent effect.
Honduras became the 50th country to ratify.
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7 comments:
Good luck. Does anyone seriously think Russia or China is going to give up their nuclear weapons and does anyone think any pressure is going to be placed on them to do so?
Nuclear space weapons can be tested all the way to the final test by components or system in regular tests in space.
Not being able to do a final test puts question mark into the calculations and designs of various powers. But it might be a very small question mark.
All this does is give a warm fuzzy to people with college degrees and no great ambition or no ambition at all.
I'm all for the ban.
Let's just get rid of the remaining 3,000 nukes we have.
Oh and I know where we could deploy them too... Beijing was so nice to attack us with a bio WMD a few months back. Time to repay the niceties ;)
The UN is hallucinating! They dont have the authority to ban nuclear weapons
LOL!!!!
Ban nukes and sudenly large scale military operations become much more tempting
Anon (11:30)
This may well be true as opposed to an accidental release of a naturally occurring virus. Unfortunately our government compounded this with the "lockdowns" that caused and will cause in the coming years even more damage than thus virus ever could bio weapon or not.
Caucus,
I think you are onto something. While Cold War 1 never went "hot" and the only way to "know" the outcome of a conflict is to actually have it, I believe the US needs and contoured to need a large and viable nuclear deterrent as a check against adversaries then and now who hold massive conventional military edges over us. With that said I don't anticipate our Russian and Chinese adversaries ever coming under any pressure to reduce or eliminate their nuclear arsenals. In contrast, I could envision massive neck breaking economic pressure being brought against the US or one or more of its "allies" to eliminate its nuclear arsenal.
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