Following a Japanese atomic bomb survivors group’s historic Nobel Peace Prize win Friday, the nation’s stance on nuclear disarmament has as soon as once more been put below the highlight.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, a longtime advocate of nuclear deterrence by way of the sharing of nuclear weapons, mentioned Sunday that his authorities will “severely contemplate” collaborating as an observer in a convention of signatories to a United Nations treaty that bans the weapons.
Adopted by the U.N. in 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) bans the event, testing, manufacturing, acquisition, possession, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons, in addition to the risk to make use of them. It has since been ratified by dozens of nations around the globe, however not one of the declared nuclear weapons states — particularly the US, United Kingdom, France, China and Russia — has adopted swimsuit.
