Countdown on U.N. nuke ban treaty

Countdown on U.N. nuke ban treaty

Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (2nd from L) claps as a countdown board is lit up in the southwestern Japan city on Oct. 26, 2020, showing 88 days before the coming into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The U.N. treaty will take effect on Jan. 22, 2021, following its ratification by 50 countries.

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