The Nuclear Free Takoma Park Committee (Takoma Park has been a nuclear-free city since 1983), Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information and Resource Service (both NGOs are headquartered in Takoma Park) were all represented outside Takoma Park city hall today to celebrate the Entry into Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
The ground-breaking Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force today, January 22. The TPNW bans any country party to the treaty from developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, using or threatening to use nuclear weapons, effectively and permanently stigmatizing nuclear weapons. The treaty also prohibits countries party to it from allowing any stationing, installation or deployment of any nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices in its territory or at any place under its jurisdiction or control. The Nobel Peace Prize Award-winning network, ICAN, has produced a handbook explaining how the TPNW works. Countless organizations around the world are holding celebratory events to mark the banning of the bomb.
Karl GrossmanKarl Grossman's piece on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission holding a "public meeting" on letting nuclear power plants run for 100 years.
Karl is an investigative journalist, author, and board member of Beyond Nuclear.
January 22, 2021