On October 27th, the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted, by the overwhelming vote of 123-38 (with 16 abstentions) a resolution on “Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations.” Resolution A/C.1/71/L.41 calls for negotiations to commence in 2017 on a “legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.”
View a statement on the proposed nuclear weapons ban by Chung-in Moon and Ramesh Thakur, co-convenors of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network.
Learn more about the proposed ban here.
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Nevada business leaders, environmental and community groups, and elected officials are joining forces to voice their strong opposition to growing calls to resume explosive nuclear testing in Nevada.
NTI Program Officer Patricia Jaworek joined a panel discussion on the devastating humanitarian effects of nuclear weapons and shared her research on the subject.
At this year's Munich Security Conference, NTI is hosting two official side events: one about the importance of global nuclear “fail-safe” measures and one about preventing bioweapons and catastrophic accidents.
