Greater Recognition of United People (GROUP) Committee #5 Ending Nuclear Drama (END)

Summary Nuclear proliferation is the spread and development of nuclear weapons. These explosive arms cost millions of dollars in production, and are being created in places such as Iran and Israel. The United States should impose economic sanctions (trade restrictions and boycotts) on all nations that do not submit to the idea of nuclear nonproliferation and the disarmament of nuclear weapons in order to secure national and global peace.

Supporting Argument- Senator Sejal The policy will destabilize nations’ nuclear economy, and force them to focus their money on necessary activities, such as education. –Nuclear warheads cost about $2 million, excluding testing, production, and storage.

Supporting Argument-Senator Minttu Rogue or unstable governments should have enforced restrictions regarding nuclear weaponry in order to ensure global peace. –Israel has an estimated arsenal of 100 weapons.

Supporting Argument- Senator Shawree The creation of nuclear weapons drains budgets and weakens the global economy. –The US alone will spend about $500 billion on the nuclear arsenal in the next years.

Opposing Argument- Senator Maya Without the security blanket that is our nuclear weapons, America’s national security is threatened. However, in reality…… The US has no current use for these weapons because of our newfound understanding of their destruction. - “As Bruce T. Goodwin, principal associate director for weapons at Livermore National Laboratory told The Washington Post in November 2011: "We have a more fundamental understanding of how these weapons work today than we ever imagined when we were blowing them up.”

Opposing Argument- Senator Chris China and India are two of the countries with the biggest nuclear threat. China has capabilities to hit all of the U.S. according to Robert Farley. Yet how can we possibly impose economic sanctions on them when they are also our largest trade partners? However in reality …. The United States is China’s largest trade partner and they pose no threat because they can’t harm us without destroying themselves.

Supporting Arguments- Senator Edward Iran’s economy is already struggling and the Iranian government will have no choice but to stop developing nuclear weapons. - According to The Chicago Tribune, “If the [June 30] deadline passes without an agreement, the [Kirk-Menendez] bill would trigger sanctions that would torpedo Iran's oil and banking sectors and blacklist its mining, engineering, shipbuilding and construction industries.”

Supporting Argument- Senator Nils The unprecedented destruction of cities by nuclear weapons could occur, and has occurred. - According to The Denver Post, 140,000 people died in Hiroshima when U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on them.

Supporting Argument- Senator Sahana Nuclear weapons are not only a concern of the government, but also of the health of the common people. - Seventy-year-old Sovietia Mukhamadiyev describes witnessing nuclear blasts as a child. "We were told to hide under a rug," she says. "The noise was deafening. The explosion was like a sphere, huge, like a cloud. We were told not to look at it, but we couldn't resist - we were children. It was loud, as if two mountains collided. We were frighteningly close. Rooms shook and buckets turned upside down. All animals, cows, dogs made noise; they didn't know where to hide. When we were young we didn't understand that it could be harmful." Later in life, Sovieta would go blind and lose her husband and three of her children to cancer.