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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Working with governments, ICRC and the UN to end nuclear weapons. 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. #nuclearban
2/ As ICAN's ED @melissaparke01.bsky.social puts it, Japan should rather strengthen its commitment by leaving the nuclear umbrella and joining the #NuclearBan Treaty, a step supported by 73% of the Japanese public.

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80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: “Human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist” : Peoples Dispatch
The US bombing of Japan pushed millions in the country to fight for a world without nuclear weapons and with peace.
peoplesdispatch.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
2/ Learn more about the #NuclearBan Treaty or Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons here: www.icanw.org/the_treaty
The Treaty
In 2017, the UN adopted a historic treaty to end nuclear weapons for good. It is time for all countries to join the TPNW.
www.icanw.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
2/ As @melissaparke01.bsky.social warns the rise in nuclear rhetoric & exercises is “escalatory and dangerous.” There are no right hands for wrong weapons. A global majority backs the #NuclearBan Treaty, it’s time nuclear-armed states join the right side of history.

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What you need to know about recent nuclear exercises and threats
www.icanw.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
2/ Learn more about the crucial work Parliamentarians around the world are doing for the #NuclearBan Treaty here: icanw.org/parliamentar...

#IPU151
Parliamentarians from Across the World Unite for the Third Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW
Parliamentarian Conference. Photo: ICAN | Derek French
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November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
3/ As @melissaparke01.bsky.social puts it: "He should be seeking to join the global majority of countries who support the #NuclearBan Treaty, which outlaws nuclear testing and complements the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, not escalating the danger."
www.icanw.org/the_treaty
The Treaty
In 2017, the UN adopted a historic treaty to end nuclear weapons for good. It is time for all countries to join the TPNW.
www.icanw.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
2/ Given that neither China nor Russia is currently testing nuclear weapons, just their delivery systems, it is not clear what President Trump intends. In the recent past, President Trump has talked about the need to get rid of nuclear weapons.
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#NuclearBan
Nobel laureates urge Presidents Trump and Putin to meet and agree denuclearisation
Alarmingly, we are witnessing a resurgence of dangerous ideas which had been relegated to Cold War history books: radical new calls for nuclear proliferation and the extension of nuclear deterrence p...
www.icanw.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
4/ There’s a reason these weapons are banned under international law. This Russian exercise follows NATO’s Steadfast Noon exercise. They are both effectively practising to commit a war crime. #NuclearBan

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🧵1/ You can’t prepare to “responsibly” use a weapon that would make humanitarian response impossible.

The ICRC and UN say no one can handle the consequences of a nuclear war, yet NATO #SteadfastNoon countries are training to cause one.

#NuclearBan
October 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
3/ The countries that have nuclear weapons routinely hide behind abstract concepts like ‘scheduled exercise of the strategic deterrence forces’ while actively preparing to wipe out entire cities and kill civilians en masse. #NuclearBan
October 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM