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100 1 Mattis, Frederick N
245 10 Banning Weapons of Mass Destruction
264 1 Westport :|bABC-CLIO, LLC,|c2009
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490 1 Praeger Security International Ser
505 0 Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations --
Chapter 1. The Landscape of Nuclear Weapons -- Chapter 2.
Partial Measures-De-Alerting and No First Use -- Chapter
3. Nuclear Ban Entry into Force -- Chapter 4. Should
Withdrawal Be Permitted? -- Chapter 5. Verification,
Disposition of HEU, and Reprocessing -- Chapter 6.
Problematic States -- Chapter 7. Weapons Elimination --
Chapter 8. Superseding Today's Non-Proliferation Treaty --
Chapter 9. Prior Prohibition of Chemical and Biological
Weapons -- Chapter 10. Reservations -- Chapter 11.
Countering Near-Earth Objects -- Chapter 12. Societal
Verification -- Chapter 13. Other Matters -- Chapter 14.
Summary -- Appendix A: Analysis of the Model Nuclear
Weapons Convention -- Appendix B: 1968 Non-Proliferation
Treaty -- Appendix C: 1972 Biological Weapons Convention -
- Appendix D: 2005 Six-Party Joint Statement of Principles
-- Appendix E: Response to U.S. Rationale for Nuclear
Weapons -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F --
G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -
- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
520 The threat of weapons of mass destruction is still viable,
and unless proper motions are made to prohibit this,
global safety is still at risk. Prior arms control
agreements have moved humanity within striking distance of
global prohibition, yet these weapons of mass destruction
remain. This enlightening work discusses original
principles for a treaty banning nuclear and chem-bio
weapons worldwide. Mattis argues that a proposed new
nuclear treaty, replacing today's inadequate 1968 Non-
Proliferation Treaty, would demand unanimous accession by
States which must be achieved before such a treaty enters
into force. By asking essential questions, and offering
value-creative proposals for nuclear treaty provisions,
this work offers a clear path to the daylight of worldwide
weapons of mass destruction prohibition. Not only is
global safety threatened by the use of nuclear and chem-
bio weapons, but more inclusively, today, society is at
risk of nuclear weapons being stolen or acquired by
terrorists for purposes of destruction. This risk lends to
a necessary treaty that would require down-blending of
highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium to
eliminate this prospect. The heart of this work is its
delineation of necessary elements for a nuclear ban treaty
that addresses inevitable concerns of all States,
especially today's nine nuclear weapon States. Mattis
addresses 17 major proposed treaty provisions that include
: how to suitably ascertain "unanimous accession" by
states to a nuclear ban treaty (unanimity being a
condition for entry into force); requirement that states
be signatories to the current chemical and biological
weapons bans [CWC/BWC] prior to signing a nuclear ban
treaty; "non-withdrawal" by states from the treaty once it
is in effect; necessary and new verification elements for
banning nuclear weapons; the establishment, via nuclear
520 8 ban provision, of "non-withdrawal" from the CWC and BWC.
By asking essential questions, and offering illuminating
proposals for nuclear ban treaty provisions, the work
offers a path to a safer future through worldwide
prohibition of weapons of mass destruction
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