The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, through its Doomsday Clock—the metaphorical clock whose hour hand is set to midnight, representing nuclear armageddon—has assessed the current […]
On July 7, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted on the text of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The treaty prohibits […]
Despite objections from major nuclear powers, more than 120 countries launched the first round of United Nations negotiations on a global nuclear weapons ban in March […]
In late October, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution to convene worldwide negotiations, early next year, on a “legally binding instrument to […]
The UN General Assembly recently adopted a resolution calling for the commencement of negotiations in 2017 for a “legally binding instrument” to prohibit nuclear weapons. […]
In the last week of October, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Disarmament and International Security Committee adopted resolution L.41, which initiates a formal process […]
Calls to ban the bomb are as old as the bomb itself. From the founding of the Federation of American Scientists (1945) to the Russel-Einstein […]