Historic UN vote to negotiate a global nuclear weapons ban - The Ecologist

Historic UN vote to negotiate a global nuclear weapons ban - The Ecologist

Last week the UN General Assembly's Disarmament and Security Committee voted for negotiations to begin next year on a new international treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, writes Rebecca Johnson, bypassing the stalled Non Proliferation Treaty. One immediate consequence is to make the UK's plans to replace its Trident nuclear missile system 'completely untenable'.