In March 2017, confronting the glacial pace of disarmament, the global community united to announce a new initiative to „ban the bomb.“ The UN General Assembly adopted, with overwhelming support, a landmark resolution to begin negotiations on a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons. According to Sally Jones, an organizer with Peace Action Staten Island, such an action is unprecedented. „The treaty is changing the dynamics within the United Nations,“ she said. „A hundred and thirty countries stood up to the nuclear weapons states and their allies to push the negotiations forward. This has never happened before.“