'ICAN has laid the groundwork for an invigorated movement for nuclear disarmament. But in spite of their extraordinary accomplishments so far, our struggle for nuclear disarmament and a peaceful future has just begun.'
On the 6th and 9th day of August 1945 a new dark age began. Two unarmed Japanese cities were each destroyed by a single atomic bomb dropped from the sky. From the beginning of the nuclear age until this present moment human beings across the globe have struggled to turn back the clock of doom.
In the year 2007, carried on the wings of youth, a new peace group was formed. In ten short years the International Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Peace. Four years later, amid an unprecedented global pandemic, 50 nations on Mother Earth made history. On January 22, 2021 an internationally binding treaty calling for the prohibition of nuclear weapons was ratified under the auspices of the United Nations.
In 1991 the Soviet Union was dissolved. Tragically, in the years since the Cold War between the two most powerful nuclear-armed nations came to an end, humanity's greatest opportunity to achieve world peace has been squandered. A new Cold War with Russia has turned into a hot war in Ukraine. Recently the United States has placed missiles in Poland and Romania, literally on Russia's doorstep.
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