"The ban treaty, two years after: A ray of hope for nuclear disarmament"

Article by Amb. Alexander Kmentt
Published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
January 28, 2023

Please see the link below to visit Bulletin for the Atomic Scientists for this article by Amb. Alexander Kmentt, Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation Department at the Austrian Foreign Ministry and President of the First Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in June 2022. 

"The ban treaty, two years after: A ray of hope for nuclear disarmament"

Ambassador Alexander Kmentt is Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Department of the Austrian Foreign Ministry and was Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union in 2016-2019 and President of the First Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in June 2022. .  As a recipient of The Simons Foundation Award for Distinguished Global Leadership in the Service of Peace and Disarmament, he is also one of The Simons Foundation's Peace Shapers.