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Reaching Critical Will and Article 36 have published a paper on a treaty banning nuclear weapons
https://www.facebook.com/reachingcriticalwill/posts/10152320838681084
Reaching Critical Will
Yesterday at 2:32pm
Hot off the press! Reaching Critical Will and Article 36 have published a joint paper on a treaty banning nuclear weapons. The paper explores the development of a legal framework for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons and argues that such a treaty is urgent, feasible, and practical. It's available online in PDF and hard copies will be available at the NPT PrepCom in New York later this week. We'd love to hear your thoughts!
Reaching Critical Will
Yesterday at 2:32pm
Hot off the press! Reaching Critical Will and Article 36 have published a joint paper on a treaty banning nuclear weapons. The paper explores the development of a legal framework for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons and argues that such a treaty is urgent, feasible, and practical. It's available online in PDF and hard copies will be available at the NPT PrepCom in New York later this week. We'd love to hear your thoughts!
http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/resources/publications-and-research/publications/8654-a-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons
http://www.article36.org/nuclear-weapons/a-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons/
Despite the growing recognition of the risk of a nuclear weapons detonation, nuclear-armed states and those in military alliances with them continue to rely upon and invest in nuclear weapons. However, the renewed focus on the humantiarian consequences of nuclear weapons has opened space for consideration of the most appropriate political and legal responses to the existence of nuclear weapons.
The ban treaty approach discussed in this paper can bridge the gap between long-held aspirations for nuclear disarmament and the seemingly intractable legal and political landscape that exists today. A new legal instrument could provide a framework for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. While participation of all states would be welcomed, such a treaty could be developed even without the participation of the nuclear-armed states and would still have significant impact in both normative as well as well practical terms.
The paper looks at possible principles and provisions of such a framework; how it could be accomplished; and its potential normative and practical impacts.
Published in April 2014 by Article 36 and Reaching Critical Will
Written by Ray Acheson, Thomas Nash, and Richard Moyes
The ban treaty approach discussed in this paper can bridge the gap between long-held aspirations for nuclear disarmament and the seemingly intractable legal and political landscape that exists today. A new legal instrument could provide a framework for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. While participation of all states would be welcomed, such a treaty could be developed even without the participation of the nuclear-armed states and would still have significant impact in both normative as well as well practical terms.
The paper looks at possible principles and provisions of such a framework; how it could be accomplished; and its potential normative and practical impacts.
Published in April 2014 by Article 36 and Reaching Critical Will
Written by Ray Acheson, Thomas Nash, and Richard Moyes