The United States urged members of the United Nations who have ratified a treaty that would ban nuclear weapons to rescind their support for the measure.
According to a letter sent to these countries, first obtained by the Associated Press, the five recognized nuclear-weapons states — the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, and China — “stand unified in our opposition to the potential repercussions” of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons‘s entry into force.
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