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Xinhua News AgencyMarch 30, 2022 Roundup: How the U.S. cranks up its information war in the Russia-Ukraine conflict Social media platforms are undoubtedly inundated with content about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Yet aside from startling videos and images, a full-scale information war is unfolding on the digital front, with only one “initiator-in-chief” – […]

Unwittingly endangered in the Chornobyl Zone

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.