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165274
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154196
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The UN General Assembly last December called for negotiations this year to produce a "legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading to their total elimination." The nuclear ban treaty talks will have to engage the issue of confirming compliance by the parties with the specific prohibitions established by such a treaty and, in addition, can establish guiding principles for the process of eliminating nuclear weapons and maintaining the resulting nuclear-weapon-free world.
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146719
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157279
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The state of nuclear arms control in 2017 has three distinct storylines. First, there are currently no negotiations or discussions at all on arms control being conducted among any of the nine nuclear weapons-possessing countries (China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States). Second, the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) process for the 2020 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, held every five years, began with the first meeting in Vienna on May 2–12, 2017. The 2020 Review Conference will mark the 50th anniversary of the NPT entering into force. Third, a United Nations-mandated conference (March 27–31, June 15–July 7) to negotiate a legal instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons adopted the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty (NWPT) on July 7, 2017 with 122 states voting in favor.1
1. The formal title is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The formal title of the old treaty is the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly called the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. This is always abbreviated to NPT and never to TNPNW. The biological and chemical weapons conventions are abbreviated similarly. Consistent with this practice, it seems to make more sense to call the ban treaty the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty in common usage, and to abbreviate it to the NWPT.
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The treaty prohibits the acquisition, development, production, manufacture, possession, transfer, receipt, testing, hosting, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons.2
2. United Nations General Assembly, Draft Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, A/CONF.229/2017/L.3/Rev.1, July 6, 2017, http://www.undocs.org/en/a/conf.229/2017/L.3/Rev.1.
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Opened for signature in the UN General Assembly on September 20, 2017, and signed by fifty countries on that date, the treaty will come into force ninety days after fifty states have ratified it.
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175208
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which will enter into force Jan. 22, marks a new, hopeful phase in the long-running struggle to prevent nuclear war and eliminate nuclear weapons. It comes at a time when the risk of nuclear war is rising, the world’s major nuclear-armed states are failing to meet their nuclear disarmament obligations, and public attention is focused on other global threats. The TPNW has the potential to stimulate further action on disarmament and take us closer to a world without nuclear weapons.
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156415
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