Treaty seeks end to nuclear madness

A firing drill of the Unit 1489 under the Artillery Command of the Korean People's drill at undisclosed location in North Korea. — AFP

TODAY, Jan 22, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will enter into force. The treaty bans the development, production, possession, deployment, testing, use and just about anything else you can imagine related to nuclear weapons.

Approved at the United Nations by 122 countries in 2017, and subsequently signed by 86 and ratified by 51 nations, the nuclear weapons ban will join the venerated status of international prohibitions already established against lesser weapons of mass destruction.