DISARMAMENT: ‘Trump’s UN envoy seeks to derail nuclear ban conference’, Bloomberg, 17 March 2017;

The U.S. is leading a push to derail a UN conference aimed at negotiating a 'legally binding' ban on nuclear weapons 'leading toward their total elimination.' Standing outside the UN General Assembly Hall where the conference was getting under way Monday, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley led a group of envoys from U.S. allies including the U.K. and France to voice their opposition. 'As a mom, as a daughter, there is nothing that I want more for my family than a world with no nuclear weapons,' Haley said. 'But we have to be realistic.' 'Trump's UN envoy seeks to derail nuclear ban conference', Bloomberg, 17 March 2017; also see U.S., Britain, France, others skip nuclear weapons ban treaty talks', Reuters, 27 March 2017; and Rebecca Johnson, 'Negotiating a global nuclear ban treaty: nuclear-armed states vs the UN', Open Democracy, 27 March 2017.