The only way forward will certainly demand that the five nuclear weapons states completely give up their weapons in exchange for everyone else renouncing nuclear weapons and eliminating any such technology.
This will mean direct confrontation with those attempting to cheat. It may mean a global agreement to place assets in place to act on attempts to cheat. It surely means finally settling all conflicts as well so motive is eliminated.
This may sound impossible, but we are actually much closer that 45 years ago.
The weapon itself has scant tactical value not better served with conventional weapons. The only remaining application is to threaten genocide and MADD was never particularly effective either. We came far too close in quite the same way safe nuclear power has produced Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukishima.
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Let Us Again Be Inspired to Ban Nuclear Weapons
by Alice Slater
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/25/let-us-again-be-inspired-ban-nuclear-weapons
Pope Francis addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 at United Nations headquarters. "There is urgent need to work for a world free of nuclear weapons," said the pope, "in full application of the non-proliferation Treaty, in letter and spirit, with the goal of a complete prohibition of these weapons." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
The
stirring condemnation of nuclear weapons by Pope Francis today at the
United Nations and his call for their prohibition and complete
elimination in compliance with promises made in the Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT), signed by the U.S. in 1970, 45 years ago, should give new
momentum to the current campaign to start negotiations on a ban treaty.
This initiative endorsed by 117 non-nuclear weapons states to sign the Humanitarian Pledge being circulated initially by Austria, to "fill the legal gap" for nuclear disarmament and ban the bomb just as the world has banned chemical and biological weapons would create a new legal norm, which was not established in the NPT which provided that the five nuclear weapons states (US, Russia, UK, France, China) would make "good faith" efforts for nuclear disarmament, but didn’t prohibit their possession, in return for a promise from all the other nations not to acquire nuclear weapons.
Every nation in the world signed the treaty except India, Pakistan, and Israel who went on to get nuclear weapons. North Korea took advantage of the NPT's Faustian bargain to give "peaceful" nuclear power to nations who promised not to make bombs and walked out of the treaty using the keys it got to its own bomb factory to make weapons.
At the NPT five year review conference this spring, the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. refused to agree to a final document because they couldn’t deliver Israel’s agreement on a promise made in 1995 to hold a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone conference for the middleeast.
Meanwhile, South Africa condemned the nuclear apartheid enshrined in the double standard of the NPT which allowed the five signers to not only keep their nukes but to continue to modernize them with Obama pledging one trillion dollars over the next thirty years for two new bomb factories, delivery systems and new nuclear weapons.
Indeed, on the eve of the Pope’s talk before the UN, it was reported that the U.S. is planning to upgrade its nuclear weapons stationed at a German NATO base, causing Russia to rattle a few nuclear sabers of its own.
The obvious bad faith of the nuclear weapons states is paving the way for even more non-nuclear weapons states to create the legal taboo for nuclear weapons just as the world has done for other weapons of mass destruction. Inspired by the Pope’s talk, this may be a time to finally give peace a chance.
This initiative endorsed by 117 non-nuclear weapons states to sign the Humanitarian Pledge being circulated initially by Austria, to "fill the legal gap" for nuclear disarmament and ban the bomb just as the world has banned chemical and biological weapons would create a new legal norm, which was not established in the NPT which provided that the five nuclear weapons states (US, Russia, UK, France, China) would make "good faith" efforts for nuclear disarmament, but didn’t prohibit their possession, in return for a promise from all the other nations not to acquire nuclear weapons.
Every nation in the world signed the treaty except India, Pakistan, and Israel who went on to get nuclear weapons. North Korea took advantage of the NPT's Faustian bargain to give "peaceful" nuclear power to nations who promised not to make bombs and walked out of the treaty using the keys it got to its own bomb factory to make weapons.
At the NPT five year review conference this spring, the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. refused to agree to a final document because they couldn’t deliver Israel’s agreement on a promise made in 1995 to hold a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone conference for the middleeast.
Meanwhile, South Africa condemned the nuclear apartheid enshrined in the double standard of the NPT which allowed the five signers to not only keep their nukes but to continue to modernize them with Obama pledging one trillion dollars over the next thirty years for two new bomb factories, delivery systems and new nuclear weapons.
Indeed, on the eve of the Pope’s talk before the UN, it was reported that the U.S. is planning to upgrade its nuclear weapons stationed at a German NATO base, causing Russia to rattle a few nuclear sabers of its own.
The obvious bad faith of the nuclear weapons states is paving the way for even more non-nuclear weapons states to create the legal taboo for nuclear weapons just as the world has done for other weapons of mass destruction. Inspired by the Pope’s talk, this may be a time to finally give peace a chance.
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Yes, as of Pope had told, we should take some steps and actions about how to make the world to be inspired to ban nuclear weapons. As a part of mine, though i have been working in one of the leading online professional resume writing service, i have been also delivering some useful essays to the students from various parts of the world about the use of banning nuclear weapons and also i had revealed about what are all the steps we need to take in order to make the world's greatest and super power countries to ban the usage of nuclear weapons.
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