Toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

The Arms Control Association estimates that 13,500 nuclear weapons are still stockpiled in military arsenals, enough to destroy the world several times over. Despite the potentially catastrophic immediate and long-term humanitarian consequences these weapons pose, efforts to disarm them have become stalled. However, after many years of negotiation, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force in January 2021, setting the stage to alter the global nuclear landscape and change how the United States and other nuclear powers not party to the TPNW will interact with the treaty’s supporters. Can the world be free of nuclear weapons?

Join speakers from All Souls, the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs, the UN Association of the National Capital Area, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), and a Japanese peace group to chart out what this new global landscape means for the United States and how we view U.S. nuclear weapons policy. Panelists will explore ethical, social justice, and humanitarian considerations of today’s evolving landscape of nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. Learn how engagement and activism by nonprofits, faith-based organizations, youth organizations, and each of us, individually, play vital roles in our shared responsibility to create a nuclear weapons-free world.

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Sponsored by All Souls Heiwa Peace Project as part of the annual Hiroshima—Nagasaki commemoration.