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The back story of the ban treaty — IPPNW peace and health blog

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons—and the process that produced it—placed the catastrophic consequences of nuclear weapons at center stage, giving voice to largely ignored groups of stakeholders, and creating a new set of international norms with which the nuclear-armed states must sooner or later engage. The story of how the ban treaty process began and evolved, how and why it worked, who participated (and who did not), how it successfully challenged the status quo, what the TPNW does, and the impact it could have on the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons, is told in two recent books.

The back story of the ban treaty — IPPNW peace and health blog

April 3, 2022 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized