In Episode 83 [15] of the CounterVortex podcast [16], Bill Weinberg notes signs of hope on the 76th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, with the city's Mayor Kazumi Matsui calling on the world's nations [17] to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [18]. President Trump walked away [19] from US-Russia nuclear arms control treaties, and China is now rapidly expanding [20] its nuclear arsenal. Ukraine and Syria are ominously likely flashpoints [21] for superpower conflict. But South Africa provides a shining example of progress—under the leadership of Nelson Mandela, newly post-apartheid South Africa became the first and only nation on Earth to willingly dismantle its nuclear weapons [22].
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