This office works with other agencies and foreign governments to insure that non-nuclear weapon possessing countries do not acquire them or the technology to build them. The Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security have a role regarding nuclear weapons from and export and licensing ...
"That these countries have done this, despite the pandemic and enormous pressure from nuclear-armed states, is really quite impressive," Beatrice Fihn, the executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), told reporters at the UN in Geneva....
Everyone in the world is threatened by the existence of nuclear weapons. Has anyone the right to wield such destructive power? Everyone has a right to ask this question, and those who live in countries possessing nuclear weapons have a duty to answer it. It has to be a personal moral deci...
Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Weapons should be banned because of the harm it does to the citizens and the environment around us. Country's are not thinking about the cons of using nuclear weapons at all.The only countries known to have detonated nuclear weapons and acknowledge possessing them are ...
I know no one wants to imagine that, but it might become reality soon if countries still keep possessing nuclear weapons. Furthermore, these weapons of mass eradication are an upcoming threat across the world because of its capacity for destruction which is why I chose to tell people my ...
The authors evaluate the role of nuclear weapons in several foreign policy contexts and present a trove of new quantitative and historical evidence that nuclear weapons do not help countries achieve better results in coercive diplomacy. The evidence is clear: the benefits of possessing nuclear weapons...
Japan is recognised as being no more than the turn of a screw away from possessing nuclear weapons, although its history as the only country to have been the subject of an atomic attack means that the majority of public opinion there is against developing them. South Korea began a nuclear ...
There has been a wide divergence between two polarised extremes: what might be called 'righteous abolitionists' pointed to the commitment and demanded that countries possessing these weapons should get on with disposing of them; 'dismissive realists' asserted that complete abolition is fanciful ...
The countries possessing the largest nuclear arsenals should, in accordance with the consensus of the international community and provisions of the relevant UN documents including the General Assembly's resolutions, fulfill in earnest their special and primary responsibility for nuclear disarmament, keep ...
Maps of countries (a) possessing, or having sought, nuclear weapons and (b) the location of nuclear power plants largely coincide, with the notable exception of Japan and Germany, both of which were demilitarized after World War II and effectively operate under the protection of US nuclear weap...