I Call For A World Initiative to Eliminate All Nuclear Weapons
Joshua Hergesheimer says it better than i could ...

Recently, the British government entered into discussions about replacing the UK's ageing nuclear deterrent. And not only is America refusing to take any meaningful steps towards disarmament, but there is speculation that the US is covertly pursuing a new generation of tactical nuclear weapons for use in otherwise non-nuclear contexts.
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The American position therefore seems completely paradoxical: while Bush is moralising about how North Korea's actions constitute "a threat to international peace and security", the fact remains that America, the only country to ever employ a nuclear device, has massive stockpiles of weapons and is considering the development of new weaponry.
The moral of the story seems to be that if America, the world's superpower, is unwilling to scale down its nuclear stockpile - believed to number around 10,000 - then the demand for other countries not to follow the nuclear path seems exceptionally hollow.
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The US must recognise that giving up its nuclear weapons is the only sure way to convince others not to "go nuclear".
Please refer to the Wikipedia article on the current NPT for further details about that treaty. What I am calling for is a new treaty that would mandate the immediat cessation of manufactur of new fissionable materials, and the immediat dismanteling of all nuclear weapons in all countries that possess them. It would mandate the implementation of effective measures of verification.
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Comments
I thought the nuclear abolution crowd was into getting rid of all nuclear weapons, not nuclear technology. You are probably closer to them, isn't that their plan ?




Actually Article IV of the NPT does not imposed obligations on nuclear states to work towards the reduction and eventual elimination of their nuclear stockpiles. However it is in the preamble as follows:
Desiring to further the easing of international tension and the strengthening of trust between States in order to facilitate the cessation of the manufacture of nuclear weapons, the liquidation of all their existing stockpiles, and the elimination from national arsenals of nuclear weapons and the means of their delivery pursuant to a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control,
I don't think the US is interested in eliminating nuclear weapons in the world! I don't think that is workable. They are a deterrant to those who want to live which is mostly everyone except the Islamist-extremists & suicide bombers. The idea is just as silly as saying, lets all the cops give up their guns & make a pact with all the criminals not to carry or get guns either, IMHO.




"What worries me is setting out a doctrine that pre-emptive strikes are not only justified by an actual gathering threat but by hypothetical futuristic scenarios which have no bearing in the present reality. You can
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The news, just today released, however, contains actual evidence of a growing illicit market in radio active materials. I find it reprehensible that the administration does not go after this threat to our security. Instead people seem to point to threats to Iran or Saddam's demise as evidence that things are being done to make terrorist nukes on our shores less probable.









Mark you are going to have to respect that i have different types of nodes and that certain types of comments and lavish displays of unrelated materials on those nodes are inappropriate. This is a rational thinking node. It is a serious proposal. It is not a laughfing matter. Nor is it a node to bring up RWG ... every comment should be well considered. I don't want people who might be reading this to have to dig through mounds or irrelivant RWG to get to the actual dialogue. Other nodes on my blog, and other places on fastblogit are free for alls where anything goes and no such heavy handed holding topic will happen.

Obama's new budget plan includes a little-noted sea change in U.S. nuclear policy, and a step towards his vision of a denuclearized world. It provides no funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program, created to design a new generation of long-lasting nuclear weapons that don't need to be tested. (The military is worried that a nuclear test moratorium in effect since 1992 might endanger the reliability of an aging US arsenal.) But this spring Obama issued a bold call for a world free of nuclear weapons, and part of that vision entails leading by example. That means halting programs that expand the American nuclear stockpile. For the past two budget years the Democratic Congress has refused to fund the Bush-era program. But Obama's budget kills the National Nuclear Security Administration program once and for all.



Obama's new budget plan includes a little-noted sea change in U.S. nuclear policy, and a step towards his vision of a denuclearized world. It provides no funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program, created to design a new generation of long-lasting nuclear weapons that don't need to be tested. (The military is worried that a nuclear test moratorium in effect since 1992 might endanger the reliability of an aging US arsenal.) But this spring Obama issued a bold call for a world free of nuclear weapons, and part of that vision entails leading by example. That means halting programs that expand the American nuclear stockpile. For the past two budget years the Democratic Congress has refused to fund the Bush-era program. But Obama's budget kills the National Nuclear Security Administration program once and for all.

Obama's new budget plan includes a little-noted sea change in U.S. nuclear policy, and a step towards his vision of a denuclearized world. It provides no funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program, created to design a new generation of long-lasting nuclear weapons that don't need to be tested. (The military is worried that a nuclear test moratorium in effect since 1992 might endanger the reliability of an aging US arsenal.) But this spring Obama issued a bold call for a world free of nuclear weapons, and part of that vision entails leading by example. That means halting programs that expand the American nuclear stockpile. For the past two budget years the Democratic Congress has refused to fund the Bush-era program. But Obama's budget kills the National Nuclear Security Administration program once and for all.








Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama's nuclear adviser suggested that progress on a U.S.-Russian nuclear arms pact could help persuade Moscow to be more cooperative on Iran.
"There are no reasons to link these issues or count on Russia being more cooperative in toughening sanctions against Iran if there is progress in talks with the United States on further cuts in strategic offensive weapons," the source said.





Obama has rejected the Pentagon's first draft of the "nuclear posture review" as being too timid, and has called for a range of more far-reaching options consistent with his goal of eventually abolishing nuclear weapons altogether, according to European officials.
Those options include:
• Reconfiguring the US nuclear force to allow for an arsenal measured in hundreds rather than thousands of deployed strategic warheads.
• Redrafting nuclear doctrine to narrow the range of conditions under which the US would use nuclear weapons.
• Exploring ways of guaranteeing the future reliability of nuclear weapons without testing or producing a new generation of warheads.
The review is due to be completed by the end of this year, and European officials say the outcome is not yet clear. But one official said: "Obama is now driving this process. He is saying these are the president's weapons, and he wants to look again at the doctrine and their role."


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