The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Provides a Way to Avert Nuclear Catastrophe

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons went into force in January 2021, and would ban nuclear weapons. Thus far, 94 nations have signed the treaty and 73 have followed up by ratifying it. But the nine nuclear powers are not among them. Even so, a powerful nuclear-disarmament movement, coupled with a strengthened United Nations, could bring them into the treaty and, thereby, end the nuclear menace.