Amazing news to kick off the weekend: we have not one but TWO ratifications of the #nuclearban treaty, Comoros & the Philippines!👏 Great show of support, a little under a month since the treaty entered into force. Congratulations to all involved @DFAPHL@MaeciDiplomatie#thread
Next to ratifying the #TPNW, Comoros also ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty #CTBT, highlighting just how strongly they support a world without nuclear weapons & the complementary nature of the treaties. @Azali_officiel@Beit_Salam@MaeciDiplomatie@ctbto_alerts
The Philippines was among the first countries to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons back in 2017. It said then: “If we listen to each other, we will hear the same thing: We have no need for nuclear weapons.”
Shinichi Tetsutani, a 3 year and 11 months old boy loved to ride his tricycle.
On the morning of August 6th 1945, he was riding it in front of his home.
A sudden flash appeared. The United States had dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Shinichi and his tricycle were badly burned. Later that night, the almost 4 year old Shinchi died from his injuries.
Shinichi's father thought his son was too young to be buried in a lonely grave away from home, and decided to bury him in the backyard.
As the tricycle had been Shinichi's favorite toy, his father buried it with him. “I wanted him to have something to play with”.
Way to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the #nuclearban treaty: Fiji has just become the 39th state to ratify the #nuclearban treaty! 👏Congratulations @FijiMissionUN 👏 Fiji’s ratification is all the more important because of its experience of the impacts of nuclear testing.
Between 1957 and 1958, Fijian soldiers participated in 9 UK nuclear weapons tests at Malden and Kiritimati (Christmas) Islands. The Pacific region faced 300+ nuclear tests over half a century, which left a terrible human & environmental legacy.
Even today, the regions where the tests occurred remain unsafe to live, grow food, or go fishing. The tests have permanently displaced people & disconnected them from their traditional way of life.
AMAZING NEWS: Kazakhstan just became the 26th state party to #nucleaban treaty & the timing couldn’t have been better - as today marks 70 yrs since the first Soviet nuclear test took place in Semipalatinsk site in Kazakhstan, marking the start of the nuclear arms race. #thread
The Semipalatinsk site aka the Polygon in Kazakhstan was the site where nearly a quarter of the world’s nuclear tests took place & harmed over 1.5 million Kazakh people and had terrible consequences on the environment.
The #nuclearban treaty calls for assistance, support & rehabilitation of those affected by nuclear weapons testing and use + outlaws everything to do with these weapons.Check this out to see how you can support the #nuclearban treaty ➡️ bit.ly/2HcfNbi