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U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during the G20 summit in Hamburg Germany, Friday July 7, 2017.
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Over 120 Nations Adopt First Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons

By EDITH M. LEDERER clear weapons,” Whyte Gomez to such an atrocity.” deterrence, which has been es-
Associated Press said. “We (are) ... saying to our None of the nine countries known sential to keeping the peace in
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More children that, yes, it is possible to or believed to possess nuclear Europe and North Asia for over 70
than 120 countries approved the inherit a world free from nuclear weapons — the United States, years.”
first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons.” Russia, Britain, China, France, In- The treaty offers no solution to “the
weapons Friday at a U.N. meeting “The world has been waiting for dia, Pakistan, North Korea and grave threat posed by North Ko-
boycotted by all nuclear-armed this legal norm for 70 years,” since Israel — is supporting the treaty. rea’s nuclear program, nor does it
nations. atomic bombs were dropped on Many of their allies also did not at- address other security challenges
To loud applause, Elayne Whyte Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August tend the meeting. that make nuclear deterrence
Gomez, president of the U.N. 1945 at the end of World War II, In a joint statement, the U.N. am- necessary,” the three ambassa-
conference that has been nego- she said. bassadors from the United States, dors said.
tiating the legally binding treaty, Setsuko Thurlow, who was a Britain and France said their coun- A ban that doesn’t address these
announced the results of the “his- 13-year-old student in Hiroshima tries don’t intend to ever become concerns “cannot result in the
toric” vote — 122 nations in favor, when a U.S. nuclear bomb de- party to the treaty. elimination of a single nuclear
the Netherlands opposed, and stroyed the city, said survivors They said it “clearly disregards the weapon and will not enhance
Singapore abstaining. “have worked all our lives to make realities of the international secu- any country’s security,” they said.
“We have managed to sow the sure that no other human beings rity environment” and “is incom- Continued on Page 2
first seeds of a world free of nu- should ever again be subjected patible with the policy of nuclear