The US will send a carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean in support of Israel
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he's ordered the Ford carrier strike group to sail to the Eastern Mediterranean to be ready to assist Israel after the surprise attack by Hamas that has left more than 1,000 dead and thousands wounded on both sides.
UN: Nuclear weapons ban treaty to enter into force
โThe United Nations was formed to promote peace with a goal of the abolition of nuclear weapons,โ Fihn said. It says the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, known as the TPNW, โturns back the clock on verification and disarmament and is dangerousโ to the half-century-old Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, considered the cornerstone of global nonproliferation efforts. โIt would be unfortunate if the TPNW were allowed to derail our ability to work together to address pressing proliferation.โFihn has stressed that โthe nonproliferation Treaty is about preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and eliminating nuclear weapons, and this treaty implements that. Thereโs no way you can undermine the Nonproliferation Treaty by banning nuclear weapons. Secretary-General Guterres said in an Associated Press interview on Wednesday: โIt is clear for me that we will only be entirely safe in relation to nuclear weapons the day where nuclear weapons no longer exist.
US urges countries to withdraw from UN nuke ban treaty
It says the treaty โturns back the clock on verification and disarmament and is dangerousโ to the half-century-old Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, considered the cornerstone of global nonproliferation efforts. โThe Nonproliferation Treaty is about preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and eliminating nuclear weapons, and this treaty implements that. Thereโs no way you can undermine the Nonproliferation Treaty by banning nuclear weapons. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the nuclear weapons ban treaty โa very welcome initiative." โIt is clear for me that we will only be entirely safe in relation to nuclear weapons the day where nuclear weapons no longer exist," he said in an interview Wednesday with AP.