Sentences with phrase «nuclear ban»

If the problem is nuclear weapons, beyond supporting the new nuclear ban treaty, what can the world do to eliminate nuclear weapons everywhere, starting with these actually existing weapons?

«Do the Swedes really think we would downgrade our relationship to punish them for signing a nuclear ban treaty?»

Like the Haitian revolution, which was hushed up by the French authorities for years before Napoleon eventually sent an army to quash it, the nuclear ban - treaty movement has been ignored in public discourse.

While all the campaigns noted above were developed or at least supported by most European states, the nuclear ban - treaty movement marks the first time an instrument of international humanitarian law is forced into existence against a kicking and screaming European core.

The states promoting the nuclear ban treaty are, of course, not enslaved like the Haitians, but both cases share the same moral grammar: a set of universal values is for the first time being leveraged against its creators.

In the nuclear ban context, these views were overcome by a humanitarian approach and by meetings which were open to all states and blockable by none.

However, the process that led to the nuclear ban treaty framed the conversation around the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons.

Based on the reactions to the nuclear ban treaty by the nuclear weapons states especially the United Kingdom, France and the United States, they expect that the norms set by the Treaty will have an impact on global perception of nuclear weapons and their self - perceived status as legitimate possessors of nuclear weapons.

During informal comments in the United Nations General Assembly's First Committee in 2016, the United Kingdom's ambassador stated that the states pressing for a nuclear ban treaty did not have security concerns unlike the states who opposed the negotiations which did.

Other lessons from the Ottawa Treaty such as action is possible even when large states are not participating and the importance of including survivors in the process were applied successfully in the nuclear ban process.

These lessons from the nuclear ban treaty process reinforce lessons from the Ottawa Treaty and from the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

First, the nuclear ban process demonstrated that it is much easier to prohibit weapons before they are used.

Disarmament advocates and states supporting the nuclear ban treaty had realistic and security focused reasons for pursuing nuclear disarmament and the treaty, however, they were dismissed as being driven by emotions and values not rational thought.

Karina Lester shows a photo of her father Yami Lester at the recent UN negotiations for a nuclear ban treaty.