{"id":9886,"date":"2020-10-14T12:37:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T12:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/?p=9886"},"modified":"2020-10-14T12:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T12:37:53","slug":"ban-on-nuke-tests-ok-but-wheres-the-ban-on-nuke-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=9886","title":{"rendered":"Ban on Nuke Tests OK, But Where\u2019s the Ban on Nuke Weapons?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 2014 (IPS) – As the United Nations commemorated the International Day Against Nuclear Tests this week, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lamented the fact that in a world threatened by some 17,000 nuclear weapons, not a single one has been destroyed so far.<\/p>\n

Instead, he said, countries possessing such weapons have well-funded, long-range plans to modernise their nuclear arsenals.<\/p>\n

Ban noted that more than half of the world\u2019s total population \u2013 over 3.5 billion out of more than seven billion people \u2013 still lives in countries that either have such weapons or are members of nuclear alliances.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of 2014, not one nuclear weapon has been physically destroyed pursuant to a treaty, bilateral or multilateral, and no nuclear disarmament negotiations are underway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There are still eight countries \u2013 China, North Korea, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the United States \u2013 yet to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), whose ratification is required for the treaty\u2019s entry into force.<\/p>\n

Alyn Ware, founder and international coordinator of the network, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), told IPS, \u201cAlthough I support the Aug. 29 commemoration of the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, I would place greater priority on the issue of nuclear abolition than on full ratification of the CTBT.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said there is now a customary norm against nuclear tests (the nuclear detonation type) and only one country (North Korea) that occasionally violates that norm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other holdouts are unlikely to resume nuclear tests, unless the political situation deteriorates markedly, elevating the role of nuclear weapons considerably more than at the moment,\u201d Ware said.<\/p>\n

The CTBTO (Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organisation) is working very effectively on implementation, verification and other aspects even though the CTBT has not entered into force, he added.<\/p>\n

Ware also pointed out the issue of nuclear abolition is more closely related to current tensions and conflicts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile nations still see a strong role for military options, including deterrence by force, then those with nuclear weapons will not be willing to relinquish them, and we face the risk of nuclear conflict by accident, miscalculation or even design,\u201d warned Ware, a New Zealand-based anti-nuclear activist who co-founded the international network, Abolition 2000.<\/p>\n

Kazakhstan was one of the few countries to close down its nuclear test site, Semipalatinsk, back in 1991, and voluntarily give up the world\u2019s fourth largest nuclear arsenal, with more than 110 ballistic missiles and 1,200 nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Kairat Abdrakhmanov, permanent representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, told IPS his country\u2019s decision to withdraw from membership of the \u201cnuclear club\u201d was more a question of political will because \u201cKazakhstan genuinely believed in the futility of nuclear tests and weapons which can inflict unimagined catastrophic consequences on human beings and the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1949, Ban pointed out, the then Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, followed by another 455 nuclear tests over succeeding decades, with a terrible effect on the local population and environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese tests and the hundreds more that followed in other countries became hallmarks of a nuclear arms race, in which human survival depended on the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, known by its fitting acronym, MAD,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs secretary-general, I have had many opportunities to meet with some of the courageous survivors of nuclear weapons and nuclear tests in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Semipalatinsk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Their resolve and dedication \u201cshould continue to guide our work for a world without nuclear weapons,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He stressed that achieving global nuclear disarmament has been one of the oldest goals of the United Nations and was the subject of the General Assembly\u2019s first resolution as far back as 1946.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe doctrine of nuclear deterrence persists as an element in the security policies of all possessor states and their nuclear allies,\u201d Ban said.<\/p>\n

This is so despite growing concerns worldwide over the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the use of even a single nuclear weapon, let alone a regional or global nuclear war, he added.<\/p>\n

Currently, there are five nuclear weapon states, namely the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China, whose status is recognised by the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT).<\/p>\n

All five are veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (P5), the only body empowered to declare war or peace.<\/p>\n

The three other nuclear weapon states are India, Pakistan (which have formally declared that they possess nuclear weapons) and Israel, the undeclared nuclear weapon state.<\/p>\n

North Korea has conducted nuclear tests but the possession of weapons is still in lingering doubt.<\/p>\n

Ware told IPS the health and environmental consequences of nuclear tests gives an indication of the even greater catastrophic consequences of any use of nuclear weapons in a conflict.<\/p>\n

This is what has spurred countries like Kazakhstan to establish the International Day Against Nuclear Tests as a platform to promote a nuclear-weapon-free world, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it has spurred Marshall Islands to take this incredibly David-versus-Goliath case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

This has also given rise to the humanitarian consequences dimension, which has gained some traction and will be discussed at the third conference coming up in December.<\/p>\n

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But without increased confidence in the capacity to resolve conflicts without the threat or use of massive force, countries will continue to rely on nuclear deterrence, even if they do not intend to use the weapons, Ware said.<\/p>\n

Thus, UNFOLD ZERO, which is promoting the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, is also advancing cooperative security approaches through the United Nations to resolve conflicts and security threats, he added.<\/p>\n

Edited by Kitty Stapp<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 2014 (IPS) – As the United Nations commemorated the International Day Against Nuclear Tests this week, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lamented the fact that in a world threatened by some 17,000 nuclear weapons, not a single one has been destroyed so far. Instead, he said, countries possessing such weapons have well-funded, long-range … <\/p>\n

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