The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. August 29, 2022 Russia Blocks Draft of U.N. Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ----------------------------------------------------------- At the United Nations, a month-long meeting to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has ended in failure after Russia objected to a joint statement from 151 nations because it included a paragraph about its occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. .