Although there have been a vast number of nuclear non-proliferation treaties signed and passed in the years during and following the atomic age, not one of these treaties has had a legal impetus behind it to ensure its proper implementation. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, however, breaks this trend. Beginning ninety days after the treaty reaches fifteen party states, the treaty will have the full weight of international law to hold its signers accountable for maintaining a nuclear weapon free world. Below you will find a link to the RUHS Research Team's synopsis of each individual article of the treaty, which was paramount to our understanding of both the treaty and of the current nuclear weapons landscape that the treaty is born out of.