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Opinion: U.S. must lead the way on U.N. nuclear ban treaty

Maryellen Kurkulos Maryellen Kurkulos lives in Fall River and is a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action. It’s time for the U.S. to catch up with the rest of the world and ban nuclear weapons. At a historic U.N. general assembly in 2017, 122 countries agreed to adopt a landmark global treaty to ban nuclear weapons. The U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons finally entered into force as of Jan. 22. The treaty is legally binding under international law for the 51 countries that have joined so far. At least 34 more countries are expected to soon ratify it.

Editorial The nuclear weapons ban is a signal to rebuild a mass disarmament movement

THE Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons marks a major step forward for the international disarmament movement. Nuclear weapons are, for the first time, illegal under international law. Powerful countries break international law all the time, of course, and nuclear-armed states have adopted a contemptuous attitude to the treaty from the start.  When the UN general assembly voted on the treaty (it passed 122 votes to one, with one abstention) nuclear weapons states, as well as the members of the nuclear-armed US-led Nato alliance, declined even to abstain, in case participating in the vote be read as giving the outcome any legitimacy.

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Opinion: The whole world is watching Biden as he takes charge

Opinion: The whole world is watching Biden as he takes charge CNN 1/18/2021 Opinion by David A. Andelman © Spencer Platt/Getty Images North America/Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 11: Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden gives a speech on his foreign policy plan on July 11, 2019 in New York City. Biden, who is running for the 2020 Democratic party presidential nomination, spoke about his foreign policy experience and a vision that sees the world in contrast to the policies of President Donald Trump. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The whole world is watching. From Day One, President-elect Joe Biden has a tall order to rebuild around the world the shattered image of America that Donald Trump had cultivated from his first day, four long years ago. At its core, this involves a restoration of the most critical underpinnings of America s national security and the world s well-being that Trump and his minions sought