![]() ![]() The less good news is that it is not a de jure binding international treaty subscribed to worldwide. The good news on that issue is that we do now have a de facto moratorium on nuclear testing observed by all except North Korea. Today’s conference is also timely as it marks the International Day against Nuclear Testing. But those two are the great medium to long term challenges and our success, or lack of it, in mastering them will be with us for far longer than the pandemic and its aftermath. ![]() I nearly said “the” two challenges facing us but, given the continuing pandemic, that would have been to invite ridicule. Nuclear weapons and climate change are two of the great challenges facing the international community. ![]() Lord Hannay, who co-chaired ELN’s Go Big Action Group on New START extension in 2020-21, lays out priorities for the international community in dealing with these twin threats to humanity. ELN Senior Network Member Lord Hannay of Chiswick, gave this keynote address to Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change, an intergenerational symposium at Central Hall Westminster and online on September 9, 2021. ![]()
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