The Development of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the P5 Response

Name: The Development of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the P5 Response
Start: 2020-03-11T10:00:00-0400
End: 2020-03-11T11:30:00-0400

Open to the Public

A Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) seminar with Rebecca Davis Gibbons, postdoctoral research fellow with MTA and the International Security Program.

This seminar will be held online via Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/423799092

Date: Wed, Mar 11, 2020 Time: 10:00am - 11:30am

The video board at the UN showing the votes in favor, against and the abstention after a vote to adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

In July 2017, 122 states voted to adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The new treaty prohibits the possession of nuclear weapons. Hailed by disarmament advocates as an important step in creating a global norm against nuclear weapons, the treaty is largely rejected by nuclear-armed states. This talk will chronicle the development of the TPNW and then explore the ways in which the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom have sought to undermine this treaty and the movement behind it.