Don’t Ban the Bomb - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/nobel-peace-prize-nuclear-weapons.html
Toujours intéressant d’écouter le discours des « autres ». En l’occurrence, il y a une phrase terrible qui laisse sous-entendre ce que tout le monde craint : que le Japon aurait bien envie de se doter de l’arme atomique.
The thought comes to mind on news that a little-known organization called the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The NGO, founded just a decade ago, was cited by Oslo “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its groundbreaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.”
This makes ICAN that very familiar creature — another tediously bleating “No Nukes” outfit, much like the Pugwash Conferences that won the prize in 1995 — with one big twist. ICAN doesn’t just want to get rid of nuclear weapons by the usual voluntary means. It set out to ban them outright.
In July, delegates from 122 countries voted in favor of an 11-page treaty that would ban the development, testing, building, acquisition, possession, transfer or threatened use of nuclear weapons, much as biological and chemical weapons are now banned. The treaty is supposed to enter into legal force if 50 states ratify the deal. So far, only Guyana, Thailand and the Vatican have done so.