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Topic: Nuclear Free World Policy


  
  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a treaty, opened for signature on July 1, 1968, restricting the possession of nuclear weapons.
These countries argue that the NPT creates a club of "nuclear haves" and a larger group of "nuclear have-nots" by restricting the legal possession of nuclear weapons to those states that tested them before 1967, but the treaty never explains on what ethical grounds such a distinction is valid.
South Africa undertook a nuclear weapons program, allegedly with the assistance of Israel, and may have conducted a nuclear test over the Atlantic, but has since renounced its nuclear program and signed the treaty in 1991 after destroying its small nuclear arsenal.
www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Non-Proliferation_Treaty   (1173 words)

  
 Nuclear Free World Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nuclear Free World Policy is considered by many and in the text of the agreement to be a "fundamental and requisite step" following from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
New Zealand's stand on nuclear issues was a step on the way towards the Nuclear Free World Policy.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuclear_Free_World_Policy   (96 words)

  
 Nuclear Free World Policy - Department of Foreign Affairs - Government of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
We therefore call on the governments of each of the nuclear-weapon states and the three nuclear-weapons-capable states to commit themselves unequivocally to the elimination of their respective nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons capability and to agree to start work immediately on the practical steps and negotiations required for its achievement.
In order for the nuclear disarmament process to proceed, the three nuclear-weapons-capable states must clearly and urgently reverse the pursuit of their respective nuclear weapons development or deployment and refrain from any actions which could undermine the efforts of the international community towards nuclear disarmament.
The maintenance of a world free of nuclear weapons will require the underpinnings of a universal and multilaterally negotiated legally binding instrument or a framework encompassing a mutually reinforcing set of instruments.
foreignaffairs.gov.ie /policy/nuclearfreeworld.asp   (1058 words)

  
 Nuclear Power in the World Energy Outlook
The World Energy Outlook is a biannual publication of the IEA that provides key energy trend projections and discusses the main issues affecting world energy demand and supply over the medium term.
At a world level, nuclear electricity generation in 2020 is expected to be at about the same level as in 1995, the base year of our projections (see Figure 4).
The World Energy Outlook provides two stylised analyses to show the scale of emissions reductions required to achieve the Kyoto target, and to illustrate how policies (market-oriented or regulatory) to curb GHG emissions would affect patterns of energy demand and supply (see Figure 7).
www.world-nuclear.org /sym/1999/birol.htm   (2909 words)

  
 Thakur: Nuclear Weapon Free World
The use of nuclear weapons in such wars is limited by the fact that their political and moral costs would be greater than the desired military and political objectives.
Nuclear weapons, it is contended, are worse in the severity, scope and duration of their destructive effects.
Nuclear weapons are apparently okay in the hands of civilised Europeans but not in the hands of fls, browns and children under sixteen.
www.gmu.edu /academic/pcs/thakur.htm   (8018 words)

  
 RUSSIA-IRAN NUCLEAR CONNECTION
To prevent the appearance of another nuclear weapon state, it is critically important that the international community seal the external channels that provide nuclear technologies which enhance Iran's capability to acquire nuclear weapons.
The challenge is in reconciling the legitimate right of any Third World country's access to nuclear energy for ‘peaceful purposes,' the ideological cornerstone of the NPT, with the recognition of the danger that such transfers could create the material and intellectual prerequisites for potential proliferators determined to produce an indigenous nuclear weapon capability.
Washington policy planners might wish to assess the entire Iranian tangle in a broader scope of the regional security issues while contemplating the motives behind Tehran's quest for nuclear status (the inferiority complex in confrontation with Iraq, the obsession with Israeli strategic plans, or the suspicion of U.S. power projection there).
meria.idc.ac.il /journal/2004/issue1/jv8n1a7.html   (5850 words)

  
 Brian's reflection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The school has no policy on this and their parents are OK with it.
An efficient world is not one we envision as delightful.
Although you thought you were free, it was a grand illusion.
www.br1an.net /indexBlog.html   (12814 words)

  
 For a nuclear free world
Today, with almost every Third World country controlled by multinational corporations, the imperialist countries are in a continual struggle with each other for domination of a greater share of the world economy.
Since their development, nuclear weapons have, for obvious reasons, held centre stage in the imperialist powers' race for military supremacy.
For one, the global ecological crisis and the persistent threat of nuclear annihilation mean we don't have all the time in the world.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/1995/200/200p3.htm   (2341 words)

  
 THE GLOBAL BEAT-NUCLEAR WEAPONS & WMD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Today's WMD policy is an inconsistent compromise between the three competing strategic visions most frequently espoused by members of Congress, experts and academics, administration officials, and military officers: more arms control, undefeatable active defense, and nuclear abolition.
But in the looking-glass logic of nuclear weapons, it is somehow fitting that from the heat of a presidential election, there is light across the political spectrum on a fundamental issue: the urgent need for the incoming U.S. administration to take an in-depth look at nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy, and posture.
An alliance of 17 leading nuclear non-proliferation organizations commended retired General John Shalikashvili's on his report to the President and Secretary,, and urged the President-elect and the Senate to use it as the starting point for rebuilding a bipartisan consensus on nuclear testing and non-proliferation.
www.nyu.edu /globalbeat/nukes.html   (8677 words)

  
 New Scientist Breaking News - Nuclear-powered drone aircraft on drawing board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The plans were eventually scrapped because it would have cost too much to protect the crew from the on-board nuclear reactor, as well as making the aircraft too heavy.
A nuclear UAV would generate thrust by using the energy of these gamma rays to produce a jet of heated air.
The military interest was triggered by research published in 1999 by Carl Collins and colleagues at the University of Texas at Dallas.
www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn3406   (736 words)

  
 Political Theory Daily Review
The debate about labor involves Europe’s development strategy and a reconfiguration of "social Europe." An essay on how much of the Democratic leadership is reinforcing a foreign policy agenda that has divided the US from the world.
World Champ to world leader: George Weah wants to be Liberia's next president.
From Open Democracy, much of the left’s opposition to the Iraq war and Bush has blinded it to the need to engage with real problems and threats, and the militarisation of US energy policy is distorting the country’s democracy and damaging its standing in the world.
www.politicaltheory.info   (3787 words)

  
 NPP Weekly FLASH Update, August 13, 2001
First used during the Cold War to warn of a nuclear strike by the Soviet Union, the Bush administration is seeking the deployment of satellites like this one as a component of future missile defense systems.
In contrast, the editorial states, the three branches of the Russian nuclear triad are fraught with command and control shortcomings, and modernizing its nuclear forces is largely beyond the government's financial reach.
Critics argues that the US nuclear posture has been adjusted only minimally with the end of the Cold War because of the reactionary StratCom, and that forces could be reduced, as StratCom states it is doing.
nautilus.org /archives/nukepolicy   (1945 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Analysis: Why progress is unlikely in North Korea nuclear talks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There are few ways left to do that other than by expanding economic integration with the outside world, many now believe.
The administration continues to be divided internally on its North Korea policy — as has been the case over the past three years — amid bickering between those who want more give-and-take and hard-liners who believe compromise is unacceptable.
But many analysts think North Korea is unlikely to accept the sort of intrusive inspections that Libya has allowed, given Pyongyang's far deeper distrust of the outside world.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001865622_koreans26.html   (1274 words)

  
 CNN.com - World regrets North Korea's quitting nuke talks - Feb 10, 2005
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said North Korea is risking further world isolation "because everyone in the international community, and most especially North Korea's neighbors, have been very clear that there needs to be no nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula in order to maintain stability in that region." (Full story)
Thursday's statement from the North Korean Foreign Ministry said nuclear weapons are "for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's evermore undisguised policy to isolate and stifle" its government.
"In his inauguration speech, Bush trumpeted that 'fire of freedom will reach dark corners of the world.' This is nothing but a plot to engulf the whole world in a sea of war flames and rule it by imposing a freedom based on power," North Korea's state-run Pyongyang Radio said this month.
www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/10/nkorea.talks   (1067 words)

  
 First step to nuclear-free world ...
Ms Fitzsimons' Nuclear Free Zone Extension Bill would extend New Zealand's very small nuclear-free zone to the full 200 mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) over which we have responsibility for fisheries and the environment.
Ms Fitzsimons said keeping the increasing numbers of nuclear fuel and waste shipments out of New Zealand waters was a basic issue of national sovereignty and most New Zealanders would support this.
"Currently nuclear ships and cargoes are classified as 'innocent passage' under the International Law of the Sea, yet the shipments which will increasingly run through the Tasman contain some of the most dangerous substances known to humans," said Ms Fitzsimons.
www.converge.org.nz /pma/onfirst.htm   (423 words)

  
 The Truth Seeker - Israeli Nuclear Policies Threaten World Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Most Americans have no idea that the possibility of a full-fledged nuclear “suicide bombing” by the state of Israel itself is a cornerstone of Israel’s national security planning.
The Sampson Option is a matter of concern—even for many high-placed American policy makers who are otherwise staunch supporters of Israel—but this is not something that has received widespread attention in the American press.
American Free Press reported one year ago that—buried in brief news notes in some Jewish newspapers in early 2003—former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres had formally broken Israel’s longstanding policy of denying its nuclear weapons capabilities, although it was not reported in the mass media in America.
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /print.asp?ID=1605   (567 words)

  
 The Road to a Nuclear Weapons Free World: Treaties, Materials, and Verification Issues
Nigel Chamberlain is a campaigner with the Cumbria and Northern Region chapter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Natalia Mironova is the chairman of the Movement for Nuclear Safety in Chelyabinsk, Russia Yu-Mi Mun is a campaigner working with the Korean Federation of Environmental Movement, currently she is studying energy policy at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (EEP) at the University of Delaware.
Ted Taylor is a former Los Alamos nuclear weapons designer and currently a visiting research fellow at the Princeton Center for Energy and Environmental Studies.
www.fas.org /news/un/other/bmd970407h.htm   (478 words)

  
 Forum participants say U.S. not ready for bioterror | ajc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Businesses and universities must be brought into bioterror planning, the group emphasized: Not only because they may inadvertently offer access to potential biological-weapon materials, but because they are likely to bear the brunt of the economic damage and pressure on the health care system that would follow an attack.
Business participation is vital to preparing adequately for bioterrorism, not least because major terrorist targets such as the World Trade Center have been workplaces, Nunn said in an interview Tuesday.
He suggested major corporations will have to fold into their balance sheets both the cost of bioterror detection, such as biological weapon sensors on buildings, and the potential expense of caring for employees if a crisis occurs.
www.ajc.com /news/content/news/0304/24bioterror.html   (509 words)

  
 RADLINKS - RADNET: Secton 13
Nuclear Terrorism and Sabotage of Nuclear Power Plants: "There are more than a few terrorist experts who believe that a nuclear power plant will be successfully assaulted before terrorists have the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon.
The European Nuclear Society (ENS) is the pan-European federation of 24 nuclear societies from 22 countries stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals and on through Russia even to the Pacific.
NucNet: NucNet is the World's Nuclear News Agency, operated by the secretariat of the European Nuclear Society (ENS), in Berne, Switzerland.
www.davistownmuseum.org /cbm/Rad10.html   (9997 words)

  
 Energy & Environment - World | International Solar Nuclear & Wind Energy Protection & Pollution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The World Bank has launched a competition to find the best ideas to provide clean water, sanitation and energy to local communities in developing countries.
A modern world, he said, in which most people carry cell phones...
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www.spanish-english.org /index/1722/2   (548 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: GOP judicial strategy by Robert Novak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republican leaders have decided to begin their use of the "nuclear option" -- forcing confirmation of President Bush's judicial nominations with a majority Senate vote -- on an African-American woman blocked by Democrats from a federal judgeship.
Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown of the California Supreme Court was one of 16 Bush nominees for U.S. appellate courts whose confirmation was prevented by Democratic filibusters in the last Congress.
With Republicans still short of the 60 senators needed to limit debate, the nuclear option will seek to confirm judges with a simple majority vote through parliamentary maneuvers.
www.townhall.com /columnists/robertnovak/rn20050205.shtml   (701 words)

  
 All book reviews available electronically, by Daniel Pipes
The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World: Essays in Honour of the late Professor Uriel Dann
The Carrot and the Stick: Israel's Policy in Judaea and Samaria, 1967-68
Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World
www.danielpipes.org /rev/year/all   (2962 words)

  
 Sinn Féin: Bairbre de Brún joins calls for a nuclear free world
Ms de Brún said that she was "pleased to lend her support to the campaign for a nuclear free world".
Mayor of Hiroshima Akiba Tadatoshi who chairs the 650-strong "Mayors for Peace" campaign, will travel to Belgium as part of a world tour of capital cities to promote a nuclear free world in advance of May's UN nuclear disarmament conference in New York.
The people of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki have had to live with the terrible legacy of nuclear devastation and I wish the Mayor well in his endeavours.
sinnfein.ie /news/detail/8171   (322 words)

  
 World News - CBSNews.com
Independent news from around the world to help you understand your changing world.
The president of the International Olympic Committee is calling for independent observers to investigate allegations that seven-time Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong tested positive for endurance booster EPO.
Italian security forces won high marks for protecting more than 100 world leaders and the 2 million pilgrims who came to Rome after the death of Pope John Paul II.
www.cbsnews.com /sections/world/main202.shtml   (369 words)

  
 Home | Greenpeace International
The Nobel Peace Prize, founded on a fortune made from explosives, has gone to the agency whose job it is to promote nuclear power without promoting nuclear weapons, and the man who heads it.
Electronics giant Motorola and health and body care companies L'Occitane, Melvitacosm and Alqvimia are the latest companies to drop the most toxic chemicals from their products.
He was talking about a document, yanked from a Pentagon website on September 19th, which outlines US nuclear warfighting plans, including the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons and the use of nukes in conventional war.
www.greenpeace.org   (274 words)

  
 Nuclear Information and Resource Service - NIRS
Now we must work to 1) prevent the appropriation of these funds by future Congresses and 2) work to block all new nuclear power projects--in the courts, before the agencies, and in the streets.
This petition points the way Congress should go in developing energy policy: energy efficiency, renewable energy such as wind and solar, green hydrogen, increased mileage standards for vehicles and an end to nuclear power.
August 12, 2005: NIRS comments to the California Energy Commission on Nuclear Power in California; calling for opposition to relicensing of Diablo Canyon and San Onofre and discussion of nuclear power/global warming.
www.nirs.org   (570 words)

  
 Nuclear Issues
If you are interested in applying for this topic, please click the "Become an Editor" link to the left of the page under "Member Central", or email Debbi Craig.
William Hartung of the World Policy Institue decried President Bush's decision to withdraw from the ABM Treaty, a move which worries nuclear activists.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission must rule on a proposed plan which would allow the development of nuclear weapons material in commercial power reactors.
www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/nuclear_issues   (316 words)

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