Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters write by Hans Blix. This book was released on 2008-04-04. Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement. In 2002 Dr. Hans Blix, then chief United Nations weapons inspector, led his team on a search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Before the United States went to war with Iraq the next March, he maintained there were no WMD in Iraq. History proved him right. For more than forty years Dr. Blix has worked on global disarmament, and with this new book he renews the call for nuclear nonproliferation. His interests, though, go beyond stemming the threat of nuclear attack from rogue states and terrorists. It is not, he argues, a recipe for success for nuclear states to tell the rest of the world that it must stay away from the very weapons that nuclear states claim are indispensable. We will never be able to convince rogue states to halt the pursuit of nuclear weapons programs unless we take the lead in a new nonproliferation and disarmament movement. Looking back at the UN post-World War II efforts against the use of nuclear weapons, Blix documents the retreat from early commitments by nuclear powers, most alarmingly from pledges against first use and toward programs to develop new types of nuclear weapons. He urges us to revive these efforts, and that the world's powers also look at issues of global disarmament and security as pieces of the same puzzle. Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters includes specific suggestions—how the UN can set the stage for a credible multilateral disarmament and nonproliferation process; what kind of treaties would be most helpful—and recommendations for regional policy, including providing the Middle East with enriched uranium for civilian nuclear power production but not allowing uranium enrichment there. From March 2000 to June 2003 Hans Blix was Executive Chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC). Dr. Blix, author of Disarming Iraq, is Chair of the Swedish government's Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction.
The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons
The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons write by Alexander Kmentt. This book was released on 2021-05-17. The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book chronicles the genesis of the negotiations that led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which challenged the established nuclear order. The work provides readers with an authoritative account of the complex evolution of the ‘Humanitarian Initiative’ (HI) and the negotiation history of the TPNW. It includes a close analysis of internal strategy documents and communications in the author’s possession which trace the tactical and political decisions of a small group of state actors. By demonstrating the unacceptable humanitarian consequences and uncontrollable risks that these weapons pose to everyone’s security, the HI convinced many states to ban nuclear weapons and reject the policy of nuclear deterrence as unsustainable and illegitimate. As such, this book is a case-study of multilateral diplomacy and cooperation between state and civil society actors. It also contains a full discussion of both sides of the nuclear argument and assesses the extent to which the HI and the TPNW have moved the dial and present opportunities for transformational change. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation, diplomacy, global governance, and International Relations in general.
Nuclear Issues on the Agenda of the Conference on Disarmament
Nuclear Issues on the Agenda of the Conference on Disarmament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nuclear Issues on the Agenda of the Conference on Disarmament write by Thomas Bernauer. This book was released on 1991. Nuclear Issues on the Agenda of the Conference on Disarmament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. UNIDIR/91/68
Understanding Weapons and Arms Control
Understanding Weapons and Arms Control - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Weapons and Arms Control write by Teena Mayers. This book was released on 1991. Understanding Weapons and Arms Control available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to modern weapons and the issues surrounding them
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons write by Jonathan L. Black-Branch. This book was released on 2021-05-20. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2017) sets out to challenge deterrence policies and military defence doctrines, taking a humanitarian approach intended to disrupt the nuclear status quo. States with nuclear weapons oppose its very existence, neither participating in its development nor adopting its final text. Civil society groups seem determined, however, to stigmatize and delegitimize nuclear weapons towards their abolition. This book analyzes how the Treaty influences the international security architecture, examining legal, institutional and diplomatic implications of the Treaty and exploring its real and potential impact for both states acceding to the Treaty and those opposing it. It concludes with practical recommendations for international lawyers and policymakers regarding non-proliferation and disarmament matters, ultimately noting that nuclear weapons threaten peace, and everyone should have the right to nuclear peace and freedom from nuclear fear.
