{"id":89792,"date":"2017-04-03T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=89792"},"modified":"2017-03-31T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T09:27:57","slug":"u-n-considers-a-historic-ban-on-nuclear-weapons-u-s-leads-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/u-n-considers-a-historic-ban-on-nuclear-weapons-u-s-leads-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Considers a Historic Ban on Nuclear Weapons: U.S. Leads Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mar 30, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some 120 countries gathered at the United Nations this week to draft a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. But the United States is leading a boycott of the talks. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 scientists signed an open letter endorsing the talks, and, on Tuesday [28 Mar], Pope Francis encouraged the UN to pursue the &#8220;total elimination&#8221; of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><em>We speak to Zia Mian, physicist, nuclear expert and disarmament activist. He is co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UJ6aP1cqBVw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 30, 2017 &#8211; Some 120 countries gathered at the United Nations this week to draft a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. But the United States is leading a boycott of the talks. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 scientists signed an open letter endorsing the talks, and, on Tuesday [28 Mar], Pope Francis encouraged the UN to pursue the &#8220;total elimination&#8221; of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}