Opinion | To Meet Nuclear Threat, US Should Attend Historic Vienna Meeting on Ban Treaty

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Opinion | To Meet Nuclear Threat, US Should Attend Historic Vienna Meeting on Ban Treaty
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'Either we end nuclear weapons, or they will end us. One of these things will be true.'

Vladimir Putin's missile rattling has reawakened people's concern about nuclear weapons even as it exposes the lack of true understanding of the nuclear threat. An Associated Press poll found 75% of people in the U.S. are concerned or very concerned about a nuclear attack. What are we worried about?

No, we are worrying about whether a nuclear exchange will kill us or the people we love and ruin the world we live in. The TPNW, in addition to its explicit prohibitions against nuclear weapons and its obligations to care for victims of the use and testing of weapons, made an implicit demand: all serious conversations about nuclear weapons going forward must include the human and environmental consequences of these weapons.

The next step happens June 21-23, in Vienna, at the First Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty. The human and environmental costs of nuclear weapons will be center stage at the historic meeting.

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