Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembered amid growing threat of nuclear war
US bombings of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 of 1945 are the only incidents of nuclear bombings in world history
Close US bases and scrap plan to buy bombers, demands German left
Amidst the raging COVID-19 pandemic and the socio-economic crisis inflicted by it, Germany’s federal government is set to acquire new combat bombers and contribute around 53 billion Euros (62.34 billion USD) this year to the NATO war alliance
Why we can’t give up on the idea of a world free from nuclear weapons
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into effect on January 22 but none of the nuclear weapons states are signatories. In fact, the US, in October, asked those governments who signed the treaty to withdraw from it
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