US and fellow nuclear states should not decide fate of the earth

VICTORIA, BC, Canada – When the United Nations resumes negotiations in June for an international treaty against nuclear weapons, there must be a treaty that should cover every single aspect of the devastating weapons — and leading eventually to their total elimination from the world’s military arsenals.

As envisaged, the treaty should not only prohibit stockpiling, use and threat of use, and planning for use of nuclear weapons, but also the deployment, transfer, acquisition, and stationing, development and production of these weapons—along with testing; transit and transshipment; and financing, assistance, encouragement, and inducement; and an obligation for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons and a framework to achieve it. (WILPH, Reaching Critical Will).