OPINION: Japan, nuclear disarmament, and the ban treaty

Tensions between the world's nuclear-armed states are on the rise. Progress on nuclear disarmament is stalled. Washington and Moscow are on track to replace their excessive nuclear arsenals at enormous cost; other nuclear-armed states are slowly improving their capabilities.U.S. president-elect Donald Trump appears poised to build up nuclear tensions even further. His Dec. 22 tweet that "the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear arsenal" and reported comments the next day welcoming an "arms race" could signal a radical shift away from decades of bipartisan U.S. policy…READ FULL ARTICLE