This week on the Five Minute Advocate, Dr. Michael Walker examines the groundbreaking nature of the latest and epically successful Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and argues that this is the first treaty to recognise nuclear weapons as a crime against humanity and actively calls upon countries to work towards their elimination.

With 92 countries having signed the TPNW and a further 68 to have ratified it but no nuclear state yet to follow suit, Dr. Michael Walker brings into question the rationale behind nuclear weaponry as deterrents and asks if humanity is capable of repeating history with another Hiroshima but on a much larger scale?

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