U.N. nuke talks resume amid hopes for ban treaty

U.N. negotiations toward the first global treaty banning atomic weapons resumed Thursday despite a boycott by nuclear powers including the United States, as well as countries it is sworn to protect with its arsenal.Participants voiced hope that agreement will be reached on a final text of a pact by the end of the session on July 7, based on a draft released last month by the president of the talks, Elayne Whyte Gomez, Costa Rican ambassador to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva.Kazumi Matsui, mayor of Hiroshima, the world's first city to be attacked wi…READ FULL ARTICLE