NEW YORK, Apr 26 (IPS) – The writer* is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security and Vice-President of the International Peace Bureau.Despite the negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), we are confronted by the increasing dangers of great power war, even nuclear war.

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