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Ed Markey: “While I understand and share the desire to make progress toward a world without nuclear weapons, the TPNW is not the…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2021
While I understand and share the desire to make progress toward a world without nuclear weapons, the TPNW is not the right way to achieve that goal.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey discusses the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and its implications.

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