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A Nuclear Weapons Ban Emerging?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/26/a-nuclear-weapons-ban-emerging/
A Nuclear Weapons Ban Emerging?
by ROBERT F. DODGE
May 26, 2015
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Fortunately there is one powerful and positive response coming out of the NPT Review Conference. The Non-Nuclear Weapons States, representing a majority of people living on the planet, frustrated and threatened by the nuclear nations, have come together and demanded a legal ban on nuclear weapons like the ban on every other weapon of mass destruction from chemical to biologic and landmines. Their voices are rising up. Following a pledge by Austria in December 2014 to fill the legal gap necessary to ban these weapons, 107 nations have joined them at the U.N. this month. That commitment means finding a legal instrument that would prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. Such a ban will make these weapons illegal and will stigmatize any nation that continues to have these weapons as being outside of international law.
Costa Ricas closing NPT remarks noted, Democracy has not come to the NPT but Democracy has come to nuclear weapons disarmament. The nuclear weapons states have failed to demonstrate any leadership toward total disarmament and in fact have no intention of doing so. They must now step aside and allow the majority of the nations to come together and work collectively for their future and the future of humanity. John Loretz of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said, The nuclear-armed states are on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of morality, and the wrong side of the future. The ban treaty is coming, and then they will be indisputably on the wrong side of the law. And they have no one to blame but themselves.
History honors only the brave, declared Costa Rica. Now is the time to work for what is to come, the world we want and deserve.
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A Nuclear Weapons Ban Emerging?
by ROBERT F. DODGE
May 26, 2015
<snip>
Fortunately there is one powerful and positive response coming out of the NPT Review Conference. The Non-Nuclear Weapons States, representing a majority of people living on the planet, frustrated and threatened by the nuclear nations, have come together and demanded a legal ban on nuclear weapons like the ban on every other weapon of mass destruction from chemical to biologic and landmines. Their voices are rising up. Following a pledge by Austria in December 2014 to fill the legal gap necessary to ban these weapons, 107 nations have joined them at the U.N. this month. That commitment means finding a legal instrument that would prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. Such a ban will make these weapons illegal and will stigmatize any nation that continues to have these weapons as being outside of international law.
Costa Ricas closing NPT remarks noted, Democracy has not come to the NPT but Democracy has come to nuclear weapons disarmament. The nuclear weapons states have failed to demonstrate any leadership toward total disarmament and in fact have no intention of doing so. They must now step aside and allow the majority of the nations to come together and work collectively for their future and the future of humanity. John Loretz of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said, The nuclear-armed states are on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of morality, and the wrong side of the future. The ban treaty is coming, and then they will be indisputably on the wrong side of the law. And they have no one to blame but themselves.
History honors only the brave, declared Costa Rica. Now is the time to work for what is to come, the world we want and deserve.
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A Nuclear Weapons Ban Emerging? (Original Post)
bananas
May 2015
OP
How will the US respond when the world makes the same demand on us that we make on Iran?
bigbrother05
May 2015
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bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)1. How will the US respond when the world makes the same demand on us that we make on Iran?
heads
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(1,884 posts)2. The US will just ignore another treaty it has signed.
No biggie, as there are plenty of those already.
4lbs
(6,861 posts)3. The US diplomatic response will be:
"Well... have Russia, China, and North Korea get rid of their nukes, and then come back and talk to us."