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End of the Nuclear Age, w/ Fabian Hamilton MP (by Yorkshire CND)


July 23, 2020 @ 18:00 - 19:30

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A webinar with Fabian Hamilton MP (Shadow Minister for Peace & Disarmament) and Alicia Sandres-Zakre (Policy & Research at International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons).

The webinar is co-hosted by Greater Manchester & District CND and Yorkshire CND.

Register at: https://tinyurl.com/y6vbzur5

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75 years since the dawn of the nuclear age, the sunset is drawing closer.

Since humanity first created the means to its own destruction with the atomic bomb, we have gone onto invent other appalling ways of ending life on earth, with chemical and biological weapons. In these cases, the international community has sensibly outlawed further development.

Nuclear weapons however, have been so bound up with global political power, that those countries who possess them have stubbornly refused to relinquish their power to destroy the world. Yet now, in 2020, we are on the brink of an international treaty which aims to consign nuclear weapons, along with other weapons of mass or indiscriminate destruction, to the rubbish bin of history. And not before time.

COVID-19 has shown us that other new threats can topple our societies, one that can not simply be outlawed or easily controlled. The pause that this virus has forced on our way of life is an opportunity to rethink how the world goes forward. An opportunity to build back differently, to move away from an economy built on the exploitation of precious resources that are causing catastrophic climate change, to move away from an economy and political system tied up with nuclearisation, militarisation and constant wars and conflict.

In this webinar, Alicia Sandres-Zakre will outline how close we are to achieving a United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Fabian Hamilton MP, Shadow Minister for Peace & Disarmament, will explore what steps we can take in the UK to ensure the success of the TPNW, and touch on initiatives such as the Green New Deal and Defence Diversification within the idea of building back better.

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The webinar will take place over Zoom. Joining details will be sent to registrants.

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