On 7 July 2017 an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations adopted a landmark global agreement to ban nuclear weapons, known officially as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. On 22 January 2021, the treaty will enter into force.
The following are links to a range of external sources of information, comment and news.
See also information and links relating to nuclear weapons on our Challenging militarism page
Background information
- Key information from the United Nations
- Nuclear weapons are banned: what does this mean for Britain? – report summary from Acronym Institute and others
- The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons At A Glance (from ArmsContol.Org )
- How the Treaty Works – information from ICAN – the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
- Briefing from the Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT)
- Video of online Network of Christian Peace Organisations’ briefing on 12 Jan 2020
- Briefing from the United Nations Association (UNA) UK
- Resource from CND Peace Education
- Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor
- TPNW Dossier from Spokesman Books
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News and comment
(see also updates from ICAN at https://www.icanw.org/updates )
- How Feminists, Survivors, and Non-Nuclear States Banned the Bomb (9 August 2021)
- The path from nuclear prohibition to disarmament (6 August 2021)
- Bangor becomes first Welsh Council to support Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
(May 2021) - Churches oppose plans to increase stockpiles of nuclear weapons (16 March 2021 )
- Advancing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (16 February 2021)
- Nuclear threat calls for leadership – (Church Times, 29 January 2021 )
- UN Treaty Paves the Way for a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World
- The responsibility to disarm and the nuclear ban treaty (22 January)
- The nuclear weapons ban treaty is groundbreaking, even if the nuclear powers haven’t signed (21 Jan 2021)
- Global nuclear policy is stuck in colonialist thinking. The ban treaty offers a way out (15 Jan 2021)
- UK is urged to sign UN nuclear-weapons treaty (Church Times 14 January 2021)
- Catholic Bishops call on UK to ‘forsake its nuclear arsenal’ (11 Jan 2021)
- The nuclear ban treaty: why international law matters (comment from Marigold Bentley, QPSW, 18 Dec 2020)
- Nuclear prohibition: Changing Europe’s calculations (25 November 2020)
- How I Came to Support the Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons (19 November 2020)
- Anglican Bishops call on government to sign the Ban Treaty (16November 2020)
- The nuclear ban treaty is set to enter force. Experts explain what comes next (30 October 2020)
- Nuclear disarmament : from ‘open-ended talks’ to ratification and beyond (28 October 2020)
- Nuclear weapons declared illegal under international law (press release from Quakers in Britain, 25 October 2020)
- Treaty to ban nuclear weapons made official with 50th UN signatory (25 October 2020)
- The Promise of the Treaty on Prevention of Nuclear Weapons (25 October 2020)
- The Day the World Banned the Bomb (24 October 2020)
- There is one clear shortcut to a nuclear-free Scotland … (22 October 2020)
- As Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Nears Force, US Urges Nations to Withdraw (22 October 2020)
In relation to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
- Boris Johnson ‘violating international law’ with plan to build more nuclear weapons (Independent comment, march 2021)
- The Relationship between the NPT and the TPNW
- The NPT and the TPNW: Compatible or conflicting nuclear weapons treaties?