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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  Disarmament
In general, disarmament is the reduction in size or destructive capability of an actor's capacity for violence.
Unilateral disarmament can be used to reduce these fears and tensions and pave the way for greater cooperation.
While forcible disarmament is an ancient practice, it has the potential to generate social resentment that may foster aggressive behavior in the future.
www.beyondintractability.org /m/disarmament.jsp   (2061 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Disarmament vs. Arms Control   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
...Unilateral nuclear disarmament is a form of limited arms control in that it proposes not general disarmament, but disarmament by one country only...
...Under disarmament, it would be hard to be sure you had found all the reactors capable of producing weapons-grade fissile material, all the factories capable of assembling missiles, and all the existing stocks of either...
...Disarmament, on the other hand, offers a viable solution because the incentives not to re-arm, not to start mankind back up the arms race again, would be the same as in the case of the Nth powers...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V32I2P38-1.htm   (7438 words)

  
 University of Delaware: RECORDS OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
The records of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) consists of material spanning the dates 1941-1972, with the bulk of the collection spanning 1958-1963.
The material surveys the issues of the nuclear disarmament movement in England beginning with the formation of the CND in 1958.
These issues include discussions of the impact of nuclear weapon strikes on Great Britain and of nuclear weapons in general, the effectiveness of unilateral disarmament as a national policy, the merits of non-violent protest vs. civil disobedience, and the ability of pressure groups to stimulate political change.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/nuclear.htm   (1751 words)

  
 Nuclear weapons: Implications of the outcome of the NPT Review Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The five nuclear weapon states gave an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, and a number of specific steps were identified to lead towards that goal.
France, for example, continues to claim that nuclear disarmament is contingent on complete, global disarmament and both France and Russia abstained on a UN General Assembly resolution based on the NPT agreements in December 2000.
Nuclear weapons can be re-targetted within minutes, however, and while welcoming the de-targetting declaration, the non-nuclear states have now insisted that the NWS go further and address alert status too.
www.isisuk.demon.co.uk /0811/isis/uk/nuweapons/no5_paper.html   (6198 words)

  
 Disarmament Diplomacy: - Britain,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After a flirtation with radical anti-nuclearism, encapsulated in a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament, Labour has now returned full-circle to its previous commitment to maintain a British nuclear capability and to endorse multilateralism as the preferred means of achieving disarmament.
Nuclear deterrence is a doctrine that has become ingrained in the national psyche: the ultimate protection of the vital national interests of the State itself.
Although greater enthusiasm for disarmament from Britain alone would, by definition, be insufficient to secure global nuclear elimination, a change of attitude on the part of one of the five declared nuclear-weapon States could have a significant impact on the climate of debate and likelihood of serious progress.
www.acronym.org.uk /dd/dd17/17trid.htm   (1794 words)

  
 Bush s Proposed Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament Measures Will Increase Chances of Nuclear War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
More likely than a Russian nuclear attack against a unilaterally disarmed United States in possession of as few as 25% as many strategic warheads many of which would be on platforms—missiles and bombers which have been dealerted, is the Russian use of nuclear flmail to goad us into caving into their foreign policy demands.
Unilateral nuclear disarmament as practiced by the Bushies is nothing less than liberal gun control implementation implemented at the nuclear level, doomed to fail for the same reasons.
Unilateral nuclear disarmament will increase the risks of nuclear war for the exact same reasons because it does not take the weapons away from the "usual suspect" countries most likely to employ them in acts of global and regional aggression.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/660314/posts   (5084 words)

  
 A/RES/39/148. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its ...
Urges that all efforts be made so that the Conference on Disarmament may resume its work on the elaboration of the comprehensive programme of disarmament early in its 1985 session with a view to submitting to the General Assembly at its forty-first session a complete draft of such a programme; 3.
Again requests the Conference on Disarmament to undertake, as a matter of the highest priority, negotiations with a view to achieving agreement on appropriate and practical measures for the prevention of nuclear war and to establish for that purpose an ad hoc committee on the subject at the beginning of its 1985 session; 3.
Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament Commission the report of the Conference on Disarmament, together with all the official records of the thirty-ninth session of the General Assembly relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implementing the present resolution; 6.
www.un.org /documents/ga/res/39/a39r148.htm   (3916 words)

  
 AN ABC - AGAINST NUCLEAR WAR
The nuclear threat itself is and can be used as the strongest incentive to induce people to opt out of the territorial power systems with their inherent nuclear war threat.
Nuclear devices are anti-people "weapons" or mass murder devices, in a situation where the people are rendered powerless and helpless, The bomb-makers and users would be rightful targets but even they could not be safety be attacked with nuclear weapons without hurting innocents.
Nuclear devices appear suitable only against a large collective enemy located in a large separate territory which is exclusively his own, i.e., against the practice of the "national unity" myths, expressed and upheld by coercive boundaries and imposed laws and governments.
www.butterbach.net /epinfo/abc.htm   (19737 words)

  
 Rumsfeld Fights Making Bush Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament Measures Permanent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rumsfeld is trying to spare the US strategic nuclear deterrent from evisceration at the hands of President Bush and foil Bush's and Powell's attempts to appease the Russian demand that these unilateral nuclear disarmament 'cuts' be made irreversible.
While Russia has not done much to advance their nuclear arsenal, they have been doing a lot to maintain and extend the lifetimes of what they got and that makes the Bush unilateral nuclear disarmament plan nothing short of a policy of national suicide.
However, for nuclear flmail purposes, the Russians have been pressing that the US destroy its retired warheads to make their nuclear superiority over the US and the change in the correlation of forces in favor of Russia permanent.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/674855/posts   (7115 words)

  
 Disarmament Diplomacy: - NPT Update
While the NWS emphasised their own efforts, others were unhappy with the slow progress of START reductions and of nuclear disarmament in general, and castigated the reaffirmation of the central or continuing role of nuclear weapons in strategic concepts.
Although nuclear weapons can be retargetted relatively quickly (in some cases in minutes), this paragraph was welcomed as a confidence-building measure that would ensure that accidental or unauthorised launches of nuclear weapons would not annihilate targetted cities.
In an unmistakable reference to sub-critical tests and laboratory testing, the nuclear powers were enjoined to refrain from conducting all types of tests in conformity with the objectives of the CTBT and to "comply with the letter and spirit of the CTBT".
www.acronym.org.uk /45npt.htm   (11318 words)

  
 WORLD ORDER BASED ON EFFECTIVE ARMS CONTROL, REJECTION OF UNILATERAL USE OF FORCE CALLED FOR IN DISARMAMENT COMMISSION
He said the total elimination of nuclear weapons could be achieved through universality of the NPT and establishing nuclear-weapon-free zones.
Military expenditures consumed about $900 billion each year, a substantive part of which was being spent on sophisticated conventional weapons, which lead to an asymmetry based on economic power, he said.  The principal threats to international peace and security came from regional conflicts and tensions.
The growing imbalance in military capability could provide incentives for aggression by the stronger party.  His country had proposed mechanisms for the resolution of outstanding disputes.  His country was prepared to pursue those proposals at the bilateral level, or through the United Nations.
www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2003/dc2860.doc.htm   (545 words)

  
 NMD, a new threat to nuclear disarmament
I joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in 1966 when I was 16 and my views on the subject have not changed.
When I was first elected a member of Parliament in 1983, CND was a very powerful organisation and the Labour Party conference had vote d for a non-nuclear defence policy and reiterated its support for unilateral nuclear disarmament.
The policy now is to support global disarmament but it is rather unclear how that would be achieved until some move is made i nitially.
www.flonnet.com /fl1724/17240930.htm   (667 words)

  
 The CTBT is Not Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Assertions that the CTBT amounts to “unilateral nuclear disarmament” misrepresent what the CTBT is and what impact it will have on the United States.
As the most advanced nuclear weapon state, it is in the U.S. interest to cap in further advances among nuclear capable states.
In fact, USG willingness to support the negotiation of a CTBT was contingent on its being able to preserve its nuclear deterrent through establishing with confidence a means to maintain the safety and reliability of its nuclear arsenal without testing nuclear weapons.
www.fas.org /nuke/control/ctbt/news/fs_991008_notnuclear.htm   (247 words)

  
 Honourable Fiend: The UK Politics Blog: Vote Labour for unilateral nuclear disarmament.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nuclear power is back on the agenda, says the Dear Leader.
For the last 8 years, the government has been pursuing a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Which is obviously a complete crock of shit since it's only cheaper because it's subsidized to the lug'oles, and it's only subsidized to the lug'oles because it's required to maintain a weapons programme.
www.honourablefiend.com /archives/2005/04/vote_labour_for.html   (560 words)

  
 Mickleton Monthly Meeting - Nuclear Disarmament
Amid the possibilities of nuclear winter and mutually assured destruction, we learned that the greatest triumph a nation can achieve with nuclear weapons is never to use them.
For decades, the nuclear political situation could be described as two superpowers-the United States and the Soviet Union-with loaded guns held to each other's heads.
We call upon the United States to show by its actions that nuclear weapons are no longer needed, if they ever were needed, for a nation to stand righteously in its people's interests and in the community of nations.
www.pym.org /salem-qm/mickleton/disarm.htm   (603 words)

  
 Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
I am writing to you as Peace and Defence Speaker of the Scottish Green Party in support of your work for nuclear disarmament.
The Scottish Green party has always had a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Defence is a power reserved to Westminster and so will not be a direct issue in the forthcoming Scottish parliament elections, and it will only have limited fiscal powers.
www.banthebomb.org /archives/parl/green.htm   (114 words)

  
 GREGORY S. KAVKA
Churchill, Robert P. "Nuclear Arms as a Philosophical and Moral Issue." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (September 1983), 469:51nn18-20, 52nn21, 22.
McGray, James W. "Nuclear Deterrence: Is the War-and-Peace Pastoral Inconsistent?" Theological Studies (1985), 46(4):702n11, 707, 709n43, 710n49.
"Nuclear Deterrence and the Limits of Moral Theory." Monist (July 1987), 70(3):360-361, 368, 369, 375nn13, 19, 21, 37.
sun3.lib.uci.edu /~scctr/philosophy/kavka.html   (5857 words)

  
 The Real Warren Buffett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His activism for Democrat and far-left causes is well known:
He has called for unilateral nuclear disarmament and has donated heavily to this cause.
He actively backed Hillary Clinton's bid for the U.S. Senate and helped her raise money.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2003/8/18/155747.shtml   (1473 words)

  
 Disarmament
1986 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm
1983 Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral U.K. nuclear disarmament
1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
www.brainyhistory.com /topics/d/disarmament.html   (109 words)

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