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Participants deflate balloons in hope of neutralising and demolishing nuclear warheads, during a memorial gathering at Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan Friday, Jan. 22, 2021
THE first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons was hailed “a historic step to rid the world of its deadliest weapons” as it entered into force today.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is now part of international law following decades of campaigning and in spite of strong resistance from most of the world’s nuclear-armed nations.
Beatrice Fihn, executive director of 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning coalition the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which helped spearhead the treaty, called it “a really big day for international law, for the United Nations and for survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
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