Margaret Harrington: Will the US ever abolish nuclear weapons?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Margaret Harrington, of Burlington, who hosts the Nuclear Free Future Conversation on Channel 17 TV Center for Media and Democracy. This piece was first published in the Burlington Free Press on Oct. 20, 2017.
The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was won by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) based in Geneva, Switzerland.
In the words of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, ICAN is “receiving this award for its work to draw attention to t