Florian Eblenkamp

Mit dem Zustandekommen der @AVI_Allianz wird die 🇨🇭 Bevölkerung über den Beitritt abstimmen. Der Bundesrat sollte seine Ablehnung überdenken und den TPNW als eine Frage von Einfluss, Risikoexposition und sicherheitspolitischer Positionierung begreifen.
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5/7 - During the Cold War, the world had to learn the hard way that more or better nuclear weapons don't increase security but trigger responses that undermine it. It seems the world now has to learn the same lesson once again.

Ende des Atomabkommens New Start: „Nuklearwaffen für die EU wären konsequent dumm“ Der Abrüstungsvertrag zwischen den USA und Russland sei praktisch schon tot gewesen, sagt Florian Eblenkamp von der Kampagne zur Abschaffung von Atomwaffen. Trotzdem sei er sinnvoll gewesen.

New START ist Geschichte, während in Europa mal wieder über eigene nukleare Bewaffnung geraunt wird. Zeit, ein paar Sachen klarzustellen. Interview in der @taz.de taz.de/Ende-des-Ato...

🧵1/ Hello from Accra, Ghana!

Today, African states, together with international and regional orgs, are meeting here for the West African Regional Conference on the Universalisation and Implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. #NuclearBan #Africa4TPNW

🗣️At the conference on nuclear weapons happening now in Accra, Dr. Adedeji Ebo, Director and Deputy to the High Rep for the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs, emphasises the #NuclearBan Treaty's role in reinforcing the norm that weapons are immoral and must be eliminated. More below⬇️

The opportunity now is not to mourn an old system, but to rebuild credibility around legal equality as a security strategy. Those who invest early will shape the norms that others eventually depend on. Welcome to the new world, welcome to the TPNW.

it lowers miscalculation risk, constrains escalation pathways, and creates shared baselines when political alignment is absent. So, treaties like the TPNW are not idealistic relics; they are assets for states navigating systemic change.

What we are witnessing, from Ukraine to Arctic tensions and tariff threats, is not the failure of rules, but the cost of selectively applying them. In a world where uncertainty is rising faster than trust, international law is one of the few scalable investments available:

Instead, it is built on equal legal commitments, stigmatization of catastrophic risk, and predictability of behavior, exactly the attributes societies, security planners and markets value most in volatile environments.

International law rooted in equality, reciprocity, and restraint is not a luxury of calmer times. It is risk-mitigation in periods of transition. The TPNW is emblematic of this logic. It does not rely on hierarchy, deterrence asymmetries, bullying, or coercion by “great powers.”

At precisely the moment when many states are re-orienting their security strategies, often at the expense of international law, we should be asking a harder question: what actually constitutes a credible long-term security investment?

The old model based on that is not coming back, but that does not mean a vacuum must replace it. Yesterday also marked the 5th anniversary of the entry into force of the #nuclearban Treaty (TPNW).

Speeches at the #WorldEconomicForum2026 , including by 🇨🇦 PM Mark Carney, captured something more nuanced: not nostalgia for a fading order, but a recognition that coercion, spheres of influence, and transactional security arrangements are structurally unstable.

Much has been said recently about the “end of the old world order.” The #Greenland threats, speeches in #Davos, and the strain on multilateralism make many conclude that norms, and international law are replaced by raw power politics. Understnadable - but also superficial and incomplete.

Today marks the anniversary of the entry into force of the #NuclearBan 🕊️

🗣️"The ITUC calls for universal ratification of the treaty, and a Fair Conversion Institution to shift arms jobs into green and health innovation." @luctriangle.bsky.social

🔗Learn more: buff.ly/Rblgpvy
@nuclearban.bsky.social

🧵5 years ago today, the #NuclearBan Treaty entered into force meaning it became legally binding intenational law.

Thanks to the treaty, for the first time in history nuclear weapons are illegal and there is a plan to eliminate them. #5yearsTPNW 🥳

Did you know that, 5 years ago this month, the #NuclearBan Treaty became international law?

At a time of rising tensions and growing nuclear risks, this anniversary is a reminder: a different future is not only possible, it’s already underway.

#5yearsTPNW

Our article "Atomic Responsiveness" by @smetanamichal.bsky.social @laurensukin.bsky.social @herzogsm.bsky.social & @mvranka.bsky.social recently sparked a scholarly discussion with @florianeblenkamp.bsky.social. We've just published a series of Policy Briefs that documents this exchange 👇

Remember the India-Pakistan war? Remember US and Israel bombing Iran? Remember Russian leadership bragging about nuking European capitals? Remember Trump announcing to resume nuclear testing? That was all this year.

At ICAN, we wish for the opposite. A world free of nuclear weapons-

1/ Excellent to see over 30 states attending Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and ICAN's side event on synergy between the #NuclearBan & the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone at @ungeneva.bsky.social. Panelists highlighted the complementarity between the 2 & their contribution to peace and security.

HISTORY MADE TODAY! The global majority has joined the #NuclearBan Treaty!

Today Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬 signed and Ghana🇬🇭 ratified the UN Treaty banning nuclear weapons, bringing us to bringing the total to 99 out of 197 eligible states.🎉

🧵This year marks 80 years since the #TrinityTest, the first nuclear detonation that marked the beginning of the nuclear age, an age that has only brought lasting harm to people and the planet. #NuclearBan #TrinityTest80 #NuclearTruth

📢Out today: ICAN’s memorial dedicated to the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ahead of the 80th anniversaries of the nuclear bombings, this new online memorial honours the 38,000 children killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

🔗Learn more: childrenspeacememorial.org

#NuclearBan

Echt Bombe! Rückfall ins Atomzeitalter Das „Gleichgewicht des Schreckens“ ist Geschichte, aber Atomwaffen spielen immer noch eine große Rolle, um echte oder vermeintliche Gegner in Schach zu halten. Zu den Atommächten zählen Russland und d...

#Atomwaffen sind wie ein Teddybär. Fühlen sich vielleicht kurz gut an aber lösen keine Probleme". Radiogespräch zur neuen Debatte um europäische/deutsche Atomwaffen, diesmal losgetreten von Jens Spahn 🧸 www.hr-inforadio.de/podcast/der-...

Aus Genf diesen Samstag etwa 60 weitere Unterschriften

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The posession of nuclear weapons and outspending all other nuclear weapons states combined (!) has not deterred attacks against American military bases. Nuclear deterrence is a scam.
#Iran #Qatar #Iraq #USattackIran #Trump

This moment demands clarity. There’s no neutral ground. The TPNW is the only treaty that treats nuclear weapons as what they are: weapons of mass destruction used by aggressors to bully and dominate. Which side is your government on?

So governments must decide: Will you keep enabling nuclear threats and forever wars? Or will you take a principled stand—against nuclear weapons, against hypocrisy, and for international law?

It bans all nuclear weapons, for all states. No exceptions. No impunity. No two-class law. The TPNW offers a credible path to verifiable disarmament and strengthens global norms against the use or threat of nuclear violence.