2. What is required for nuclear disarmament?

3. Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
A Promise to Negotiate
Prohibit Testing
Prohibit Stockpiling
Prohibit Development
Prohibit Production
Prohibit Transfer
Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
- physically &
- in security policies
Prohibit Threat and Use

4. A Promise to Negotiate
Under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons or “NPT”, all states parties undertook in the very famous Article VI:
“to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament,...

5. Prohibit Testing Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Bans testing in the atmosphere, outer space and in the oceans.
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (1996)
Bans underground testing of nuclear weapons.
The CTBT is not ratified by several key states (U.S., China and India) . But a moratorium is now in place among nuclear weapons states stopping nuclear testing.
But the CTBTO is operational!

6. Testing of Delivery Systems - not prohibited by treaty.
Prohibit Testing
Testing of Delivery Systems
- not prohibited by treaty.

7. Russian stockpiles are being secured.
Prohibit Stockpiling
Russian stockpiles are being secured.
The American, French and British stockpiles have been decreased.

8. There is no prohibition now on research on nuclear weapons.
Prohibit Development
There is no prohibition now on research on nuclear weapons.
But in Russia, thousands of former nuclear weapons researchers are being redeployed under the Global Partnership Program.

9. Prohibit Production
When we prohibit production, we will need to:
Put fissile materials under international inspection
Stop plutonium pit production
Stop production of warheads
Stop production of Fissile Materials under a Fissile Materials Cut-off Treaty.

10. Have transfers of nuclear weapons technology occurred?
Prohibit Transfer
THE BARGAIN in the NPT:
In 1968, the 5 Nuclear Weapons States agreed not to transfer nuclear weapons to Non Nuclear Weapons States.
In exchange, the Non Nuclear Weapons States were promised assistance with peaceful nuclear use (nuclear power).
Have transfers of nuclear weapons technology occurred?
As of 2010, there are 4 new nuclear armed states:
India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea.

13. Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - Physically
There will be phases for the physical elimination of nuclear weapons:
taking nuclear weapons off alert,
Progress:
U.S. and Russia have 2,600 nuclear weapons on alert.
China’s are not on alert.
U.K. & France are on much lower alert status (days, not hours)

14. Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - Physically
removing weapons from deployment,
removing nuclear warheads from their delivery vehicles,
disabling the warheads,
removing and disfiguring the “pits” and
placing the fissile material under international control.

15. The Size of National Nuclear Arsenals

16. Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - in security policies
In the 2000 NPT Final Document, the States Parties agreed to a “diminishing role for nuclear weapons” in security policies.
This is being considered in the current NATO policy review and the US Nuclear Posture Review.

17. Prohibit Threat and Use
The use of nuclear weapons could be prohibited through:
an amendment to the International Criminal Court Treaty and
national legislation.