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international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons

October 26, 2020

UN Nuclear Treaty will enter into international legal force in 2021

The treaty bans nuclear weapons production, testing, possession and use, along with other activities that could enable and assist anyone in acquiring or using these weapons of mass destruction ever again.
September 22, 2020

Past leaders of US allies urge states to join the nuclear weapon ban treaty

Former presidents, prime ministers and defence ministers say nuclear weapons serve no legitimate military or strategic purpose.
May 14, 2020

States spend record sums on nuclear weapons as pandemic spreads

As the economies of the US, China, France, and Russia all contract, their nuclear spending is expanding.
November 14, 2019

American Universities 'key supporters of Trump’s nuclear weapons expansion'

Universities in the United States are complicit in a new nuclear arms race that is spending nearly $100,000 every minute to upgrade U.S. nuclear weapons, says a new report.
October 18, 2019

Research shows 31 states holding back progress on nuclear disarmament

The 2019 report of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor identifies 31 mostly European states as ‘nuclear-weapon-complicit states’.
September 28, 2018

Treaty banning nuclear weapons moves closer to becoming international law

Four states simultaneously ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2018.
July 7, 2018

Poll finds Europeans reject US nuclear weapons on own soil

People in European countries that host US nuclear weapons are overwhelmingly in favour of removing them, a poll has found.
March 7, 2018

2018 Don't Bank on the Bomb report finds $81bn increase in nuclear arms investment

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) and PAX have released the 2018 ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ Report, which found a massive increase of US$81 billion in new investment in 2017 compared to 2016. The report shows 20 companies in particular stand to profit the most from the increase in nuclear threats
January 7, 2018

'No safe hands for unsafe weapons', say Nobel Peace Prize winners and activists

An international gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners and peace activists met in Friends House, London last week to face a challenge: how to get nuclear states on side with the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.
December 10, 2017

Peacemaking 'a great and compelling life task', says WCC chief

In a sermon at the Trinity Church in Oslo, Norway on 9 December 2017 , the World Council of Churches General Secretary, the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, reflected on peacemakers: those who create trust and foster good relations, those who try to bring out the best in us, those who attempt to solve conflicts.