OPINION: Banning nuclear weapons: the moment of truth has arrived

The adoption of the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by a vote of 122 to 1 at the United Nations in New York on 7 July provides a historic watershed; a moment of truth regarding the only weapons which pose an existential threat to humanity and our living planet.It's no coincidence that all the states armed with nuclear weapons, and those complicit in their possible use, oppose the treaty. These states have come up with a whole raft of changing claims as to why the treaty will not only be ineffective, but dangerous. Publicly they claim that the treaty ignores security co…READ FULL ARTICLE