26/09/2020
September 26 is United Nations International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (Nuclear Abolition Day).
It was established to enhance ‘public awareness and education about the threat posed to humanity by nuclear weapons and the necessity for their total elimination, in order to mobilize international efforts towards achieving the common goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world.’
The resolution establishing the day also calls for the start of multilateral negotiations on a nuclear weapons convention – a global treaty negotiated by nuclear armed and non-nuclear States together to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Abolition Day occurs on the anniversary of the 1983 incident in which a nuclear war was almost initiated by accident (See The Man who Saved the World). The day occurs when world leaders (Presidents, Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers…) are in New York for the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). And it is just prior to the deliberations of the UN Disarmament and International Security Committee .
May Allah Pak protect us from every evil and from every calamity.. Ameen Suma Ameen