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| − | According to the [[Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]], those nations which have these [[weapons of mass destruction]] are obliged to try to prevent their spread and to eliminate their own holdings of these weapons | + | According to the [[Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]], those nations which have these [[weapons of mass destruction]] are obliged to try to prevent their spread and to eliminate their own holdings of these weapons. |
===Problems=== | ===Problems=== | ||
A nuclear war involving [[USA]] or [[Russia]] would likely cause a [[nuclear winter]] which would cause humans and most other life forms to go extinct.<ref>http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Symposium%3A+The+Dynamics+of+Possible+Nuclear+Extinction</ref> | A nuclear war involving [[USA]] or [[Russia]] would likely cause a [[nuclear winter]] which would cause humans and most other life forms to go extinct.<ref>http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Symposium%3A+The+Dynamics+of+Possible+Nuclear+Extinction</ref> | ||
| − | The [[nation state]]s with nuclear weapons are not abiding by the treaty and have never made serious efforts to reduce their holdings. | + | The [[nation state]]s with nuclear weapons are not abiding by the treaty and have never made serious efforts to reduce their holdings. Indeed, "a trillion dollar build up of U.S. nuclear weapons is well underway."<ref>http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/09/pope-lining-ban-nuclear-weapons/121589</ref> |
==Elimination== | ==Elimination== | ||
Revision as of 15:46, 23 September 2015
Contents
Official narrative
According to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, those nations which have these weapons of mass destruction are obliged to try to prevent their spread and to eliminate their own holdings of these weapons.
Problems
A nuclear war involving USA or Russia would likely cause a nuclear winter which would cause humans and most other life forms to go extinct.[1]
The nation states with nuclear weapons are not abiding by the treaty and have never made serious efforts to reduce their holdings. Indeed, "a trillion dollar build up of U.S. nuclear weapons is well underway."[2]
Elimination
The only nation to have given up nuclear weapons is South Africa.
Connection to Nuclear power
A proper accounting of the risks of nuclear power reveals that its development was never economically justifiable, but was primarily intended as a method of deriving radioisotopes for use in nuclear weapons - explaining a lot of the lies and other hypocrisies which continue to surround the topic.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Chevaline (missile) | |
| China/Nuclear weapons | |
| France/Nuclear weapons | |
| Iran/Nuclear weapons | |
| Israel/Nuclear Weapons | |
| Mini-nuke | A nuclear device small enough to be carried in a backpack |
| North Korea/Nuclear weapons | |
| Russia/Nuclear weapons | |
| Saudi Arabia/Nuclear Weapons | |
| South Africa/Nuclear weapons | Like the South African biological weapons program, it was developed in close cooperation with the Israeli nuclear and biological weapons programs. While officially destroyed in 1993, the bombs were in fact sold on the international black arms market, with help from the British deep state. |
| Submarine | |
| UK/Nuclear weapons | The UK has nuclear weapons on submarines |
| US/Nuclear weapons | The US had (has?) far more nuclear weapons than any other nation state and made clear a while back, that it is very willing to use them. |
| Ukraine/Nuclear weapons | Ukraine held about one third of the Soviet nuclear arsenal. |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Cumings | “The United States is the power that introduced nuclear weapons into Korea, and it took this drastic step primarily to stabilize volatile North-South relations. Always suspicious of North Korea's intentions, in the mid-1950s the Eisenhower Administration also worried that South Korean President Syngman Rhee might reopen the war. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles wanted to restrain both sides — with nuclear weapons. Even hotheads like Rhee and Kim Il Sung, he believed, would think twice before starting a war that would rain atomic destruction on the peninsula. In January of 1958 the United States positioned 280mm nuclear cannons and "Honest John" nuclear-tipped missiles in South Korea; these were followed a year later by nuclear-tipped Matador cruise missiles. Soon American and South Korean defense strategy rested on routine plans to use nuclear weapons very early in any new war — at "H + 1," according to one former U.S. commander in Korea, meaning within one hour (more likely a few hours) of the outbreak of war if large masses of North Korean troops succeeded in attacking south of the DMZ. Annual "Team Spirit" military exercises included rehearsals for battlefield nuclear war. North Korea responded by building enormous facilities underground or in mountain redoubts, from troop and materiel depots to munitions factories and warplane hangars. This was a bit of a problem for American surveillance, in that it allowed for a great many places to hide an atomic bomb.” | Bruce Cumings | 2005 |
| John McCain | “Republican 2008 presidential hopeful John McCain crooned the words “Bomb Iran” to a Beach Boys’ tune in joking response to a question about any possible U.S. attack over Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons program. “That old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran ... bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb,” the Vietnam War veteran warbled softly to the band’s “Barbara Ann” when he was asked when the United States would send an “airmail message” to Iran.” | John McCain Reuters | April 2007 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Institute for Statecraft & Center for Naval Analyses Joint Workshop | workshop summary | 22 June 2018 | Integrity Initiative | Information Warfare Study Day hosted by British Navy. Candid opinions (with a NATO-flavor) on lots of military issues. |
| Document:Jeremy Corbyn’s Chatham House speech | Article | 12 May 2017 | The Spectator | "Weapons supplied to Saudi Arabia, when the evidence of grave breaches of humanitarian law in Yemen is overwhelming, must be halted immediately." |
| Document:Labour Built the Bomb | Article | 10 July 2017 | Bill Ramsay | The prompt for this short essay is not Labour's nuclear legacy: it is what took place in the UN General Assembly last Friday when the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty passed into international law. |
| Document:Russia is deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus. NATO shouldn’t take the bait | Article | 24 April 2023 | Nikolai Sokov | Moscow regards the United States and Europe as parties to the war; Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared that Russia and the United States are in a “hot phase” of war. These statements elevate the Russian war against Ukraine to the category of a “regional conflict” according to the 2000 and subsequent Russian Military Doctrines – a category that allows for limited use of nuclear weapons. |
| Document:Speech to the European Parliament by Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN | Speech | 7 February 2018 | Beatrice Fihn | "Are you going to support the new Trump Nuclear Doctrine? Join the thinking of Russia, North Korea? Cheer on a new nuclear arms race? Or are you going to support the work for the prohibition and the elimination of nuclear weapons? You cannot do both." |
| Document:The Impending Dangers of Nuclear War | article | 20 February 2014 | Jim McCluskey | The risk of a catastrophic use of nuclear weapons is increasing as the nine (known) nuclear weapons states continue to upgrade their vast nuclear arsenals and keep them in a high state of readiness. |
| Document:The Kiss of Death | article | 2005 | Leuren Moret | Insight into where privatisation of the US Nuclear weapons program and military/weapons/surveillance developments are leading the world. It also provides shocking information about the extent of the apparently quite deliberate and calculated radiation contamination resulting from ever-expanding use of depleted uranium munitions. |
| Document:Will Iran Kill the Petrodollar? | article | 25 January 2012 | Marin Katusa | The possibility of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons is largely a smoke-screen used by the Western powers to obfuscate the real reasons for their escalating confrontation with Iran. |
| Document:Xi Jinping says a dark shadow looms over the world after years of peace | Article | 3 September 2017 | Tom Phillips Wang Zhen | Shen Dingli, an international relations expert from Shanghai, said Sunday’s nuclear test underlined the futility of both Washington and Beijing’s policies towards North Korea: "It's only a matter of time before Donald Trump realises he has no choice but to sit down with Kim Jong-un." |
| File:Containment of Soviet underground nuclear explosions.pdf | report | September 2001 | Vitaly V. Adushkin William Leith | |
| File:Critical Technology Assessment.pdf | Report | April 1987 | Clarence A Robinson Edwin S. Townsley | US Institute for Defense Analysis assessment of the technologies of Israel and NATO nations - including nuclear weapons capailities. Declassified in March 2015 with all but the Israeli sections remaining redacted. |
| File:DivestmentReport.pdf | report | March 2012 | Jan Willem van Gelder Petra Spaargaren Tim Wright | |
| File:ZFacts 2005 03 15 Joint Nuclear Operations.pdf | policy | 15 March 2005 |
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