The hibakusha (survivors) of the 1945 bombings have been among the most tireless campaigners for the treaty. The Japanese government, however, has not supported it.
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Kwame Nkrumah and Ali Mazrui associated nuclear weapons with imperialism and racism, but proposed different approaches to address the problem they present.
The Turnbull government has refused to congratulate ICAN on winning Australia’s first homegrown Nobel Peace Prize. In doing so, it is working against international efforts to ban nuclear weapons.
A scholar analyzes the history of the Nobel Peace Prize to ask: What difference has it made?
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons recently opened to signatures at the United Nations. Canada broke with history and did not join negotiations, nor has it signed. Here’s why it must.
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