Nobel Icon Lauds Pope Francis, Ally In Bid To Rid World Of Atomic Arms

While Pope Francis headed the smallest city-state on the planet, he took on a colossal role in pressing for the creation of a new, nuclear-arms-free world, says Fihn, who - like the supreme pontiff - has become an icon of the atomic peace movement that’s reshaped the planet over the past dozen years. The initial stream of states signing and ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - Vatican City was the first to join - included a torrent of Catholic-majority countries, and Catholic prelates continue to press for adopting the accord even in the holdout nuclear-armed nations. ICAN activists stage a protest against atomic weapons, lofting the flags of countries that ratified ... More the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and call on Germany to join the accord in a march outside the Chancellery in Berlin (Photo by Tobias Schwarz / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images

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