Articles by Ray Acheson

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The Monstrous Game of Nuclear Annihilation
Ray Acheson | Reaching Critical Will – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022

States parties and signatories to the TPNW issued a joint statement on 26 Aug 2022 reiterating their support for the NPT and its full implementation. We will not rest until the last state has joined the TPNW, the last warhead has been irreversibly dismantled and destroyed, and nuclear weapons have been totally eliminated from the Earth.

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The Crumbling Edifice of Hypermilitarised Power
Ray Acheson | Reaching Critical Will – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2017

Nuclear Weapon States Face Growing Anger at the United Nations – The rhetoric against disarmament—that the time is not ripe, that the security situation is not safe, that the conditions are too unstable—is rhetoric against progress, against security, against unity, against survival. Yet “divisiveness” is the main argument used by those standing against disarmament.

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We’ve Got a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
Ray Acheson | Reaching Critical Will – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2017

4 July 2017 – There are many ways to ban nuclear weapons. The draft text that the President of the conference released on Monday [3 Jul] evening is one of them. And it’s a good one. It is a categorical prohibition of nuclear weapons that also provides a framework for their elimination.

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