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And it had dismissed a Soviet-initiated disarmament plan, the first official attempt at peaceful coexistence, out of hand.
Sixth, establish well-planned and synchronized programs for demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration, which are sine qua non for making the transition from war to peace irreversible.
Nor has North Korea’s behavior done anything to help the cause of global non-proliferation and disarmament.
For that message to resonate, the major nuclear-armed states must not only remain committed to non-proliferation, but also get serious about disarmament.
This is the time to begin a broader US-Iran rapprochement and build a new security regime in the Middle East and the world that leads toward full global nuclear disarmament.
With that, the cause of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament – a goal that the US has pursued for almost 70 years – will be all but dead.
A long-time advocate of global nuclear disarmament, India’s moral stand on the NPT enjoys near-unanimous backing within the country.
The tougher challenge is to solve the Gordian knot that binds Hezbollah (and the issue of its disarmament), Syria, and Israel together in a fateful triangle.
Never before has the FARC – a monumental apparatus of terror, mass murder, and drug trafficking – agreed to discuss disarmament, its fighters’ social and political reintegration, victims’ rights, an end to drug production, and participation in “truth and responsibility” commissions to examine the crimes committed during a half-century of conflict.
Hezbollah has an armed militia that is far more effective than Lebanon’s national army, and has openly rejected UN Security Council resolutions asking for its disarmament.
When the United States, under President Barack Obama, showed itself to be unwilling to enforce its “red line” in Syria – the use of chemical weapons by President Bashar al-Assad – the Kremlin jumped in, establishing Russia as a sinister guarantor of Assad’s disarmament.
Next some good news: one payoff on the Euro is the macroeconomic disarmament of the periphery - Italy and Spain, even France.
Taking Disarmament SeriouslyMELBOURNE – People sometimes forget that the boy who cried wolf ended up being eaten.
But START treaty ratification is going nowhere fast in the US Senate and progress on other key issues has been slow or shaky: bringing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty into force; starting negotiations on a new treaty to ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons; strengthening the non-proliferation regime with effective measures to detect violations and deter treaty walk-outs; reaching agreement on some form of international management of the most sensitive aspects of the fuel cycle; and, above all, starting new rounds of serious disarmament talks, involving not just the two nuclear superpowers, but all eight nuclear-armed states.
Arms control and disarmament is a grinding, unglamorous business that brings few quick returns.
The second major task is to set a clear global disarmament action agenda – with credible timelines and milestones.
This experience illustrates one of the great drawbacks of the use of force as a tool of disarmament.
Is a military action a true test of a disarmament war’s efficacy if the arms in question are missing?
Now another disarmament war – this time against Iran – is taking shape.
To achieve lasting disarmament, military action would also have to be lasting, beginning with regime change and continuing with a long occupation.
The aim of a disarmament war is to prevent proliferation, locally and regionally.
An effective non-proliferation regime will not be possible unless the major nuclear powers, especially the United States and Russia, take urgent steps toward nuclear disarmament.
Indeed, the goal of a nuclear-free world was incorporated in the US administration’s arms control and disarmament agenda.
We appreciate the proposals from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany as well, while Russia also signaled recently in Geneva its readiness to embark upon nuclear disarmament.
Opponents of nuclear disarmament used to argue that this goal was unattainable in the absence of an effective system of control and verification.
The time has come for a fundamental change in the proceedings of the Geneva-based Disarmament Conference, which for years has failed to meet the international community’s expectations.
We share the view expressed by the academics, politicians, and experts of the international Warsaw Reflection Group that consideration should be given to the zero option as a basis for a future multilateral nuclear disarmament agreement.
The fact that these states were denuclearized as part of the Safe and Secure Disarmament program provides a valuable lesson.
The process of gradual nuclear disarmament must be set in motion.
To be sure, worldwide nuclear disarmament is in itself a central issue for the Obama administration and, likewise, US relations with China and Russia influence many of America’s other key interests.
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