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Treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons
22 January 2022 marked the first anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) (United Nations n.d.). Statements of civil society organizations and individuals around the world marked this anniversary with calls for other countries to join the treaty (WILPF 2022), and on 21 January 2022, the mayor of Hiroshima called for policymakers to 'take radical shifts in policy towards nuclear abolition, liberated from the nuclear deterrence theory' (Matsui 2022).
The need for shifts in policy has become more urgent since the war in Ukraine commenced a month later. The world has not been this close to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 (IPPNW 2022).
The TPNW complements the Non-Proliferation Treaty in its calls for the elimination...
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