Banning the Bomb III: Subsection B
The second half of yesterday's
Banning the Bomb III. Make sure to listen to that one first.
122 countries just adopted the Treaty banning nuclear weapons, in the same week that North Korea tested an ICBM.
Andrea,
Gaukhar, and
Beatrice Fihn from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons continue their discussion of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty) and talk about what made the cut for the final treaty, debate some of the implications, and states sitting on their arsenals.
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