Left to right: NuclearBan.US Creative Director Vicki Elson, Reps. Ilhan Omar, Jim McGovern, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Don Beyer. PHOTO: Matthew Bonaccorsi Washington, D.C.- On June 22, five members of Congress gathered at a press conference in front of the Capitol. Each called on the United States government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the…
PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons Vienna, Austria- The first Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (1MSP) was held this week. At the meeting, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Indonesia, Mozambique, Nepal, and Niger all declared their commitment to completing the ratification process for the…
PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons | Guatemala- On June 13th, Guatemala became the 62nd country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. With Guatemala’s ratification, Central America became the first contiguous region to have entirely joined the TPNW. When the TPNW opened for signature on September 20, 2017, Guatemala’s minister of foreign affairs signed…
PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons Ottawa, Canada; Turin, Italy: The capital city of Canada unanimously approved a motion to join the Cities Appeal by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). This Appeal calls on the Canadian government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The City Council recognized that…
PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons Australians went to the polls on May 20th, and elected a new center-left government after nine years of rule by a conservative coalition. The new Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has promised sweeping changes in a wide range of policy areas, including stronger commitment to tackling the climate crisis and addressing indigenous rights.…
Washington, DC: June 22, 2022, 10:30am: Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-2) will host a live press conference from the lawn of the US Capitol Building to draw attention to the First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons), taking place in Vienna from June 21-23. If you are in…
PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC: On Friday, June 3, U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY-17) co-sponsored the Norton Bill, making him the seventeenth Congressional leader in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This bill would abolish everything to do with nuclear weapons and use the saved money to fight the climate crisis…
PHOTO: Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ 3rd District) has added his name to the list of co-sponsors to the Norton Bill, H.R.2850. He had co-sponsored previous version of the Norton Bill, but not the current one which calls on the US to sign and ratify the Treaty on…
Two identical bills calling for the establishment of a Citizens’ Commission to look into the threat posed by nuclear weapons to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (H.3688 and S.1555) were successfully voted out of committee on May 4th, after intense lobbying by peace campaigners across Massachusetts. The bills now sit with the House and Senate Ways…
Soviet inspectors and their American escorts stand among several dismantled Pershing II missiles as they view the destruction of other missile components. The missiles are being destroyed in accordance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. 14 January 1989. PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons / US Department of Defense / MSGT Jose Lopez Jr. How Boycott and…