Hi Friends,

On Friday, May 22, the Review Conference for the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) concluded in New York City. After nearly a month of negotiations, participants were unable to reach agreement on a final document on the current status of the treaty.

Even now, when nearly every arms-control treaty has been abandoned, there is still a skeletal legal framework for bringing the age of nuclear weapons to an end – but nuclear-weapons nations have to make the choice to use that framework.

It seems clear that they are nowhere near making that choice. The U.S. chose to use the conference primarily as another forum to insist on its justification for its illegal attacks on Iran on the grounds that they are somehow  in service of nonproliferation. Meanwhile Russia glossed over its own recent record of nuclear threats in the context of the war in Ukraine, blaming “the delegations of the so-called collective West” for the outcome of the conference.

It’s our job to demand an end to these pointless, destructive wars:

If our leaders won’t lead, we as activists have to demand we step back from the edge of nuclear destruction.

This work is only possible with your financial support. Please chip in $12 now.

Thanks for all you do!

In Solidarity,
Emma Claire for RootsAction and Defuse Nuclear War

RootsAction.org