Foreign Policy: "Nuclear Disarmament’s Lessons for Climate Change - If we can ban nukes, we can ban carbon emissions. Here's How." by Charli Carpenter & Ronald Mitchell

Throughout the Cold War, nuclear weapons were the main existential threat to the planet. But they were also considered vital to powerful nations. With no chance of getting those players to give them up, possession and use of the weapons was simply regulated at the margins. But thanks to the concerted work of a coalition of activists, nuclear weapons were banned outright in a 2017 treaty that has been signed by 70 countries and ratified by 23…Read the rest of the article here.