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Nuclear time journey to5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Five regional nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties that insulate vast geographical areas from the stationing of nuclear weapons.The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), adopted in 1996, which needs to be ratified by eight remaining states to enter into force.The session’s final document remains the high watermark of international consensus on disarmament and identifies the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons. The first special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament in 1978.The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) of 1968 – the most widely subscribed to disarmament treaty – which under article VI provides for negotiations “in good faith” towards nuclear disarmament.We delude ourselves if we think that war between nuclear-weapon states is a malady of the past, no longer deserving our attention. The essence of common security – that security is something you must build in tandem with your adversary – is alien to contemporary power politics. In the nuclear field, we are almost back to the years immediately after the Second World War, when rules for the nuclear age had not yet been developed. The transition is mirrored in the unravelling of the arms control architecture. At every session of the General Assembly since, resolutions with various nuances on nuclear disarmament have been adopted. In January 1946, the first resolution of the newly established United Nations called for nuclear disarmament. The Treaty is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons. On July 7, 2017, seventy-two years after history’s most inhumanely destructive weapon was used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a Conference of the majority of Member States of the United Nations voted – 122 for, 1 against and 1 abstention – to adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). ![]()
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