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Weapon Disarmament: A Threat To Security?

 

            Could nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons being falling into the hands of dangerous.
             terrorist groups? This sounds like a scenario that is played out all too often by Hollywood.
             directors, but is it a reality, and society may not even realize it. Since the fall of the Soviet.
             Union it is feared by many that weapons of mass destruction have been left unmonitored.
             and have been recovered by dangerous groups. All of this happening right under the.
             United States" (and the rest of the world) nose. Not until recently have nations begun to.
             notice. September 11, 2001, and events following, has opened everybody's eyes to the.
             very real threat of terrorism.
             The US and other countries have built up tremendous nuclear arsenals, but is it a.
             threat to world peace; or would removing/ reducing them lead to more threats against.
             national security? If the US government were to somehow eliminate its arsenal, it would.
             only be encouraging advisaries to get the nuclear "leg up" on us (Myers 1). Not only.
             would it leave the nation vulnerable to a quick and devastating attack from other nuclear.
             nations, but it would also cost the tax payers a good bit. Everybody should know that.
             building a bomb costs money, but also destroying a bomb can cost money too. If.
             eliminating the nuclear arsenal would threaten national defenses why should it be done.
             (Myers 2)? Tax payer's money should be spent on more defensive weapons, not offensive.
             weapons (Myers 1 ). Most of America pays their taxes, without totally understanding.
             where that money goes. It goes into social security, disability, welfare, and many other.
             beneficial programs. A percentage of that which comes in through taxes will go into.
             building better and more powerful bombs, which the Government tries extremely hard at.
             not using. The fact of the matter is, the world's nations are the only threat to peace, not.
             the funding and creation of bombs (Myers 1).
             The United States government worked for many years to find vaccines for many of.


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1. Nuclear disarmament

Nuclear weapons are the most destructive technology ever developed. ... We are very fortunate that these weapons have not been used, although in some cases we have come very close. ... With the coming of nuclear weapons and the terrible destruction which they could bring about, the whole issue of disarmament became considerably more important. ... It also called on all nuclear weapon States to suspend nuclear weapons tests in all environments and requesting the Conference Committee on Disarmament to continue, as a matter of urgency, its deliberations on a treaty banning underground nuclear tes...

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2. After the Cold War

According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Korea has allied with the United States ever since the nuclear war and has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. ... Due to the threat of a nuclear North Korea, the issue of the United States deploying nuclear weapons has been debated. ... When one state does not approve a treaty, other states do not want to give up their weapons with the threat of countries that still have nuclear weapons. ... Another concern is the lack of security infrastructure at old nuclear weapons sites, such as Soviet Union nuclear weapons facilities. With the lack of ...

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3. WWII and the Lack of Nuclear Weapon Security

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4. Nuclear Proliferation

The ultimate goals of this treaty were, to encourage disarmament of all nuclear weapons, to halt the production of fiscal material, and to slow the advancement in nuclear technology. ... It is actions like this that discredit the UN, the treaty itself, and compromise global security. ... Not only are nuclear weapons still a very prominent threat, something even more dangerous and far more realistic, is the threat of chemical and biological weapons. ... These weapons produce a huge threat just like nuclear weapons. ... By enabling the production and use of such weapons the initial threat i...

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5. Nuclear Weapons and International Peace

In fact if a non-nuclear feels vulnerable opposing a nuclear state, it may not be able to send troops to refrain attack as the latter may counterattack using its nuclear armaments.9 For this reason he considers the nukes to be a great threat to the world. ... They all consider nukes to be a major danger to mankind, to human security. ... For many states actors and NGOs "Human security has become the main theme of international humanitarian actors and for some countries an important element of foreign policy".10 We can therefore see how security is important for states. ... This is ...

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6. The United Nations and a Safer World

The Security Council is the only organ whose resolutions are mandatory for member states. ... The Security Council consists of fifteen members. ... The Security Council also reaffirmed Iraq's obligations under the Geneva Protocol and demanded once more that they remove and destroy all chemical weapons. ... The Security Council was divided on how to proceed. On the one side there were the UK and the US who firmly insisted that there should be an effective weapons inspection process. ...

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7. A World of Nuclear Proliferation

Thus caused this issue to be at the forefront of the international security agenda since 1945. ... By 1962, the "Nuclear Club" expanded to include all the permanent five members of United Nations Security Council. ... " Which implies that greater the threat of mutual destruction, the safer the world would be. ... And a dreadful aspect is the likelihood of nuclear weapons getting into wrong hands. ... Yet there are some measures and options to shore up the system, such as reforming the NPT, introduction of world government, complete disarmament and the concept of weaponless dete...

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8. Should the U.S. Invade Iraq?

Today, however, merely the 'threat' of Iraq using these same weapons is just another point to be taken for an invasion. ... As a part of the settlement of the 1991 Gulf war, Saddam's regime accepted disarmament provisions that called for its weapons of mass destruction to be identified and destroyed. ... The most effective means of addressing the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction is to resume U.N. weapons inspections. Previous U.N. disarmament efforts were successful in eliminating Iraq's nuclear weapons program and destroying most of its long- range ballistic mis...

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9. A Study on International Security

The traditional definition is no longer sufficient to satisfy what constitute international security in the modern world full of security challenges and threat. ... Vladimir Putin had even considered using nuclear weapon to protect the annexation of Crimea which poses a challenge to global peace and security. ... The treaty is signed by 190 member state that convenes every five years to review implementation of the treaty and it core provision to nuclear weapon disarmament. ... The major challenge facing the NPT is disarmament and proliferation. ... Particularly, this has led to Pakistan to b...

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