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TIMES SPARK SAMPLE MOCK TEST 1

What do you have to say about winning the Nobel peace prize? It is a great honour, awarded in recognition of our role in achieving the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This historic ag reement, adopted on July 7 with the backing of 122 nations, offers a powerful, muchneeded alternative to a world in which threats of mass destruction are allowed to prevail and, indeed, are escalating. How will this prize help in eradicating nuclear weapons? We are excited because of the opportunities this presents us as campaigners to work for universalisation of the treaty and to work in nuclear weapon and nuclear umbrella states to change their policies related to nuclear weapons. We hope it will also allow us to change the media narrative around nuclear weapons.Too often the conversation about nuclear weapons returns to the same topics over and again, without challenging the central premise around nuclear weapons: Is the catastrophic humanitarian harm that nuclear weapons pos