Malta has become the 84th state to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, confirming the move at the United Nations this week. Malta will now begin a domestic process before confirming ratification of the Treaty in the future. The Ban Treaty will ban nuclear weapons on the ground […]
Monthly archives: August 2020
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More than 200 Christian leaders from nine denominations have called on the UK government to cancel the plans to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system, as the world remembers the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. August marks 75 years since the nuclear bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities at […]
Mozambique has become the 83rd state to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, confirming the move this week. Mozambique will now begin a domestic process before confirming ratification of the Treaty in the future. The Ban Treaty was negotiated by the United Nations in 2017. 122 states voted […]
Nigeria, Nieu and St Kitts & Nevis have all completed ratification to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the past days, taking the number of ratifications to 44. The Treaty will enter into force once 50 states have joined. Nigeria becomes the sixth African state to […]
On August 9 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, just three days after the destruction and huge loss of life caused when the city of Hiroshima was attacked. The city of Nagasaki was not the intended target, but attacked simply because of […]