Cause for hope

James Yeoman writes about possibilities of a safer world

HMS Victorious, one of the submarines that carries Trident nuclear missiles, as it departs Faslane. | Photo: Thomas McDonald / flickr CC.

On 7 July countries meeting at a United Nations conference in New York adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, announced by the UN as ‘the first multilateral legally-binding instrument for nuclear disarmament to have been negotiated in twenty years’.

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