Study Group products

• Historic milestone: Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty to Enter into Force, Oct 25, 2020
• At UN today, more countries sign Treaty prohibiting possession of, deterrence with, nuclear weapons, press release, Sep 26, 2018
• "Beyond Hiroshima" discussion in Los Alamos 6 pm Monday August 6 with Godfrey Reggio, Gilbert Sanchez, Carol Miller, Greg Mello, others, press release, Aug 3, 2018
• Update on US Nuclear Modernisation for the International Disarmament Community, Apr 9, 2018
• Bulletin 237: NNSA doubts LANL pit production; Nobel peace prize get-togethers Sunday Dec. 10 (Santa Fe & Albuquerque), Dec 4, 2017
• Nobel Peace Prize Goes to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), press release - updated, Oct 6, 2017
• Nobel Peace Prize Goes to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), press release, Oct 6, 2017
• Historic Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Adopted at United Nations, press release, Sep 20, 2017
• Lifeline for New Mexico: New international treaty bans nuclear weapons research and production, Mello, NM Political Report, Sep 19, 2017
• World is crying out for clean energy, not nuclear weapons, Mello, Santa Fe New Mexican, Sep 16, 2017
• On nukes, another way for the City Different?, Mello op-ed, Albuquerque Journal North, Sep 15, 2017
• Study Group celebration in Los Alamos in honor of a Treaty Prohibiting nuclear weapons, Jul 8, 2017
• Historic Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Adopted at United Nations; Opens for Signature September 20, 2017, press release, Jul 7, 2017
• Final Draft Treaty That Would Ban Nuclear Weapons Released by 130+ Negotiating Countries, Adoption of Treaty expected Friday, July 7, press release, Jul 5, 2017
• Reflections on the negotiations so far, Jun 24, 2017
• To foster nuclear (and general) disarmament, a ban treaty should prohibit nuclear threats and preparations, and ban alliances with nuclear states, Jun 15, 2017
• Comments on the “Draft Convention on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons," working paper, Jun 5, 2017
• Draft Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Released, Most of World’s Countries to Resume Negotiations June 15, Conclude July 7, press release, May 23, 2017
• US, Allies, Stage Protest Outside UN General Assembly Hall as Nations Gather in Unprecedented Meeting to Ban Nuclear Weapons, press release, Mar 27, 2017
• UN General Assembly approves historic resolution in evening session, 10:00 pm EST Update, press release, Dec 23, 2016
• In Historic Vote, UN General Assembly Poised to Mandate 2017 Negotiations to Ban Nuclear Weapons Entirely, press release, Dec 23, 2016
• Bulletin 227: Year of the Ban, Dec 20, 2016
• Bulletin 224: New directions in nuclear disarmament – Nov. 11 talk and discussion in Santa Fe, Nov 4, 2016
• Historic UN vote to mandate negotiation of treaty banning nuclear weapons, press release, Oct 24, 2016
• Bulletin 223: Historic UN vote to mandate negotiation of treaty banning nuclear weapons, Oct 23, 2016
• Increasing momentum to negotiate treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, press release, Oct 14, 2016
• Bulletin 222: UN debate on banning nuclear weapons begins, Oct 5, 2016
• UN Disarmament Working Group Calls for 2017 Negotiations to Ban Nuclear Weapons, press release, Aug 19, 2016
• We cannot let compromise, or cosmetic, nuclear solutions crafted in or for the US distract the world community, Mello, Pressenza, Jul 28, 2016
• For diplomats and international disarmament campaigners: “framework” approaches to nuclear disarmament are pernicious, May 20, 2016
• Bulletin 218: UN Working Group builds momentum among large majority of world's countries toward treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, May 15, 2016
• Would a Ban Treaty be an Effective Disarmament measure? How?, Mello, Reaching Critical Will, May 13, 2016
• United Nations, Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Nuclear Disarmament, statement, Mello, May 9, 2016
• Abandon fantasies about multilateral nuclear disarmament, embrace what is possible and powerful, Apr 12, 2016
• Progress in multilateral nuclear disarmament requires a treaty prohibiting the possession, threat, or use of nuclear weapons, Mello, paper for the U.N. Open-ended Working Group, Apr 7, 2016
• Perspectives on the 2016 disarmament “Open-Ended Working Group, ” now beginning, Feb 8, 2016
• NPT consensus failure a good thing; 108 countries pledge to help ban nuclear weapons, Mello, Pressenza International Press Agency, Jun 10, 2015
• Ban the Bomb, Save the Planet: a Perspective from within a Nuclear-Armed State, NPT News in Review, Apr 27, 2015
• Comment to colleagues regarding a comprehensive nuclear disarmament treaty as a viable diplomatic option, Apr 19, 2015
• Bulletin #198: Vienna Conference vigorously advances efforts to ban nuclear weapons, Dec 17, 2014
• Forty-four countries call for explicit nuclear weapons ban at third major diplomatic conference, press release, Dec 10, 2014
• Bulletin #185: Movement to ban nuclear weapons gains ground; events; more, Feb 19, 2014
• Nayarit point of no return: Mexico conference marks turning point towards nuclear weapon ban, press release, Feb 14, 2014
• 146 states meet in Mexico to discuss humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons, press release, Feb 13, 2014
• International Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of nuclear weapons, press release, Feb 12, 2014

Key resources

• Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy, Ray Acheson, TEDxPlaceDesNationsWomen, YouTube, Dec 6, 2018
• 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, Watch live from Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, Dec 10, 2017
• Banning Nuclear Weapons with 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Winner ICAN, Carnegie Counci lfor Ethics in International Affairs, Dec 5, 2017
• Editorial: ICAN, the ban, and the Nobel Peace Prize, Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will, WILPF, Oct 9, 2017
• Why the new treaty banning nuclear weapons is important and how it can be used – Part 2, Tilman Ruff, The Power to Persuade, Sep 27, 2017
• Signature/ratification status of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, Sep 21, 2017
• United Nations Web TV, "Signing Ceremony for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons," Sep 20, 2017
• UN nuclear weapon ban treaty opens for signature, ICAN, Sep 20, 2017
• IALANA Statement Regarding the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on the Occasion of its Opening for Signature on 20 September 2017
• NATO - North Atlantic Council Statement on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, press release, Sep 20, 2017
• Australia must sign the prohibition on nuclear weapons: here’s why, Tilman Ruff, The Conversation, Sep 19, 2017
• "Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Gratitude," Good Thinking - The Documentary video, Sep 18, 2017
• A few photos from the day of the finalization of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
• Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Jul 7, 2017
• United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards their Total Elimination, Jul 7, 2017
• Ban treaty here we come, Tilman Ruff, IPPNW Peace & Health Blog, Apr 3, 2017
• Clearing the path to the ban, John Loretz, IPPNW Peace & Health Blog, Mar 31, 2017
• Negotiating the Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons: Cooperation and Relations Provisions, Mar 6, 2017
• United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards their Total Elimination 16 February, 27 - 31 March, 15 June - 7 July 2017
• Nuclear Weapons Ban negotiating conference at the United Nations 27-31 March & 14 Jun - 7 July.
• Countdown to nuclear ban negotiations, Jan 30, 2017
• UN General Assembly approves historic resolution, ICAN, Dec 23, 2016
• Nuclear ban treaty negotiations in 2017, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Dec 15, 2016
• Campaign highlights of 2016, ICAN, Dec 14, 2016
• The case for a ban treaty, ICAN
• Support for a ban treaty, with statements from States
• ICAN's Flickr site with photos of UN process
• First Committee Monitor, Reaching Critical Will (RCW)
• Voting results on UN resolution L41, Oct 27, 2016
• European Parliament votes in favour of a ban, Oct 27, 2016
• First Committee Sends 22 Texts to General Assembly, Echoing Call for Expanding Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones into Middle East, Bolstering Disarmament Efforts, UN press release, Oct 27, 2016
• First Committee, 22nd meeting - 71st General Assembly (UN web tv), Oct 27, 2016
• UN votes to outlaw nuclear weapons in 2017, ICAN, Oct 27, 2016
• United States Non-Paper: "Defense Impacts of Potential United Nations General Assembly Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty," (obtained by ICAN) Oct 17, 2016
• UN Resolution L41: General and complete disarmament: taking forward multilateral nuclear d isarmament negotiations, Oct 14, 2016
• ICAN press conference at the UN, Oct 14, 2016
• UN OEWG report, Aug 19, 2016
• United Nation's creation of an Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) - Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations, Dec 7, 2015
• Humanitarian Pledge, Stigmatize, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons, Dec 9, 2014

Media

• How Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Changed the World, The Nation, Jul 6, 2018
• Let’s join other nations in banning nuclear weapons, Albuquerque Journal, Jul 6, 2018
• Whether you like it or not, the Nuclear Ban Treaty is here to stay: a reply to Brad Roberts, Euroean Leadership Network, Tom Sauer, Mar 29, 2018
• SFHS graduate a mover in global campaign to ban nukes, Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct 21, 2017
• International Community Starts Call for US to Ban All Nuclear Explosions, Sputnik News, Loud & Clear, Oct 21, 2017 (audio here)
• Trump Moves to Kill 'Detente' With Cuba: A Policy in Need of a Pretext, Sputnik News, Loud & Clear, Oct 7, 2017
• Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Cultural Energy, KCEI 90.1 FM Taos, radio interview, Greg Mello, Sep 25, 2017
• The U.N. just passed a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. That actually matters. Washington Post, Jul 17, 2017
• UN group signs draft treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons—without U.S., New Mexico Political Report, Jul 11, 2017
• Cultural Energy's Robin Collier interviews Greg Mello on the proposed ban on Nuclear Weapons, May 22, 2017
• A Tranformational Moment in Nuclear International Affairs, John Burroughs, Interpress Service, Apr 3, 2017
• A Shift in the Public Conversation to Ban the Bomb, Alice Slater, InDepth News, Mar 31, 2017
• The United Nations Votes to Start Negotiations to Ban the Bomb, The Nation, Nov 1, 2016
• UN votes to start negotiations on nuclear weapons ban, German Press Agency, DPA, Oct 28, 2016
• UN looks to outlaw nuclear weapons: Could it happen? , Christian Science Monitor, Oct 28, 2016
• UN votes to launch talks on nuclear weapons ban, Agence France Presse, Oct 27, 2016
• Talks set for nuclear weapons ban after historic UN vote, Fox News Latino, Oct 27, 2016
• UN votes to start negotiating treaty to ban nuclear weapons, The Guardian, Oct 27, 2016
• Nuclear-Armed Foes Unite Against UN Call to Shed Their Bombs, Bloomberg, Oct 26, 2016
• Boris Johnson urged to back UN nuclear disarmament push, Independent, Oct 26, 2016
• U.S. Seeks to Scupper Proposed Ban on Nuclear Arms, Foreign Policy, Oct 21, 2016
• Vatican calls armed nuclear deterrence a 'tragic illusion', Catholic News Agency, Oct 20, 2016
• UN General Assembly to consider talks on nuclear weapons ban, Nikkei Asian Review, Oct 15, 2016
  
• Non-nuclear states advance push for UN treaty to ban nukes, Associated Press, Sep 28, 2016