{"id":208909,"date":"2021-10-14T12:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=208909"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:02:06","slug":"pollack-speaker-series-christopher-king-united-nations-deputy-chief-of-the-weapons-of-mass-destruction-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2021\/10\/14\/pollack-speaker-series-christopher-king-united-nations-deputy-chief-of-the-weapons-of-mass-destruction-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollack Speaker Series: Christopher King, United Nations&#8217; Deputy Chief of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nAre we any closer to genuine nuclear disarmament?<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 27 @ 2:00 PM<br \/>\nCELS 120<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can also register to attend via zoom:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/montclair.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZ0tcOGrrjwiGNIBZyo0eYloMFMZNCgkIUFH\">https:\/\/montclair.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZ0tcOGrrjwiGNIBZyo0eYloMFMZNCgkIUFH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please join us for a conversation with Mr. Christopher King, Deputy Chief of the United Nations&#8217; Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch.<\/p>\n<p>The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which entered into force in January, 2021, represents a new phase in the long fight to eliminate nuclear weapons and prevent a catastrophic nuclear war. This is the first time since the invention of nuclear weapons, that their development, production, possession, use and threat of use, has been explicitly prohibited in a global treaty. Unfortunately, nuclear-armed states are working to undermine international support for the Treaty, as they continue to modernize their weaponry.<\/p>\n<p>This event is co-organized by Sprague Library and is also part of the &#8220;New Jersey and the Birth of the Atomic Age Series&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Are we any closer to genuine nuclear disarmament? October 27 @ 2:00 PM CELS 120 You can also register to attend via zoom:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/montclair.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZ0tcOGrrjwiGNIBZyo0eYloMFMZNCgkIUFH Please join us for a conversation with Mr. Christopher King, Deputy Chief of the United Nations&#8217; Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch. The Treaty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":208910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-138_political-science-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208919,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208909\/revisions\/208919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}