Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

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‘Humanitarian Diplomacy’ Fights Nukes

By Jamshed Baruah
For the first time, ‘humanitarian diplomacy’ is being deployed to drive home the need for banning nukes - though under the self-imposed exclusion of the P5, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, who own a crushing majority of the 19,000 nuclear weapons capable of destroying the world many times over.
Dr. Daisaku Ikeda Credit: Seikyo Shimbun

Most Inhumane of Weapons

By Daisaku Ikeda
I believe that most of the world’s citizens would agree that nuclear weapons should be considered inhumane. It is encouraging to see that there is now a growing, if still nascent, movement to outlaw nuclear weapons based on this premise.