Global nuclear weapons ... are at their highest level ever. This, in spite of treaties and agreements that aim to reduce the potential for such cataclysm.

In July, a historic milestone was reached at the United Nations in New York when 122 countries voted in favour of a new treaty banning nuclear weapons. In September, the treaty will open for signature. Nuclear armed states and many of their allies have boycotted the treaty and have done all they could to try and derail the negotiation. They ...

"[The] assertion that 'since setting off the nuclear age, America has been the major, if imperfect, force behind the restraints that exist' ignores the sorry history of the United States’ provocative expansion of its nuclear arms and its rejection of numerous offers ... to ratchet down the hostilities." ~ Alice Slater, World Beyond War

The media tells us that nuclear diplomacy with North Korea is a waste of time, as do most high officials from every recent US administration. But easily verifiable facts show otherwise.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors on Monday unanimously passed three resolutions opposing the military-heavy Trump budget proposal. These resolutions urge Congress to reverse the Trump budget and move funding out of the military, wars and nuclear weapons and into human and environmental needs.

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In March 2017, a group of the world's foremost scientists gathered at the United Nations headquarters in support of a global ban on nuclear weapons. Here are their informal statements to the public.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said at the UN last week "Quite a high number of countries are actually interested in saying we have to break the deadlock that has been on this issue for so many years."

"If Reagan had previously shown a cavalier willingness to launch a nuclear war, he now spoke of avoiding war and emphasized peace."

The 400 remaining deployed ICBMs would be the fewest since 1962, according to a history of the force written by Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists.

“I am committed to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons,” the Secretary-General declared in a video message to the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament, which opened the first segment of its three-part 2017 session yesterday.