On Thursday 11 April, US Congresspersons Jim McGovern and Earl Blumenauer introduced H. Res 302, a historic resolution calling on the US government to support the nuclear weapons ban treaty (“TPNW”) and make nuclear disarmament a central focus of US national security policy

 Anything less will not stand the test of time, particularly if it is solely dependent on these two unstable men. The process must be internationalized. From Hanoi, Akira Kawasaki, member of

South Africa just became the first former nuclear-armed nation to ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The US suspension of and withdrawal from the INF-Treaty is an irresponsible move that opens the path for a new-nuclear arms race and highlights the importance of real multilateral, binding solutions like the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty