North Korea's recent nuclear test and Iran's refusal to stop its program to enrich uranium- potentially to weapons grade- highlight the fact that the world is now on the precipice of a new and dangerous nuclear era.
LONDON(IDN)- If we survive this turbulent period, histories may record that 2017-18 marked the end of the nuclear age and the beginning- we hope- of a new era of peace-building and security.
With the legal challenge,"this small island nation is standing up against 9 of the most powerful countries on the planet," writes David Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, a U.S.-based organization supporting the lawsuits, and consultant with the RMI legal team.
For example, six symposium sessions were offered on the topics of world conflict and nonviolence, realizing the spirit of Article 9 in Asia, women's peace-building power, linking peace and the environment, crisis and the future of Article 9, and Article 9 and the nuclear age.
The treaty is a powerful and eloquent statement, grounded in an understanding of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear explosions, of the political, moral, and legal standards enjoining non-use and elimination of nuclear arms and of the need to redress the damage wrought by the nuclear age to people and the environment.
Laurence, who coined the term"the nuclear age," wrote most of the official US statements about the bomb, and published a ten part series on the bomb in The New York Times that played down the destruction of the bomb and the dangers of radiation and celebrated the triumph of US technology.
In an Open Letter to Trump on January 3, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation recalls:“You have suggested that more nations- such as Japan, South Korea and even Saudi Arabia- may need to develop their own nuclear arsenals because the U.S. spends too much money protecting other countries.
The nuclear weapons ban treaty is a powerful and eloquent statement, grounded in an understanding of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear explosions, of the political, moral, and legal standards enjoining non-use and elimination of nuclear arms and of the need to redress the damage wrought by the nuclear age to people and the environment.
He added:"At the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, we have urged President Obama to make the following changes in U.S. nuclear policy: Declare a No First Use policy; Eliminate launch-on-warning; De-alert the US nuclear arsenal; Remove US nuclear weapons from foreign soil; Eliminate land-based nuclear weapons; Zero-out funding for modernizing the US nuclear arsenal; Convene the nine nuclear-armed countries to commence good faith negotiations for total nuclear disarmament.
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