1st U.N. nuke ban treaty meeting urges "immediate action"

Parties to a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons called for "immediate action" to achieve a nuclear-weapons-free world as they wrapped up their first meeting Thursday.The statement, adopted at the end of the three-day meeting of parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna, said a prompt response is the only way for such weapons to never be used again at a time when Russia is threatening to use them in its war against Ukraine.Nuclear threats "further underscore the enormity of the danger posed by the existence of nuclear weapons," according to the Vienna Declaration…READ FULL ARTICLE