DISARMAMENT: ‘The U.N. just passed a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. That actually matters’, Washington Post, 17 July 2017

On July 7, the UN adopted the first treaty imposing a total ban on nuclear weapons. The Nuclear Prohibition Treaty covers all aspects of nuclear weapons, including their use and threat of use, testing, development, possession, sharing and stationing in a different country. It provides a pathway for countries with nuclear weapons to join and destroy their nuclear arsenals. One hundred twenty-two nations — all non-nuclear — voted to adopt the treaty. Only the Netherlands voted against doing so, and Singapore abstained. But the nine nuclear-armed countries — Britain, China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and the United States — boycotted the negotiations. 'The U.N. just passed a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. That actually matters', Washington Post, 17 July 2017