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Nuclear Weapons Convention
2007
In 2007, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
(ICAN) released an updated version of the Model Nuclear Inventory,
in a publication called Securing
Our Survival: The case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention.
More information about the campaign for a NWC is available
on the ICAN website.
1997
The launch in April of 1997 of a model Nuclear Weapons Convention,
drafted by a consortium of lawyers, scientists, physicians,
former-diplomats and disarmament specialists and activists,
made concrete and tangible what had been only academic and
illusory for many years. The text was enthusiastically examined
by NGOs, diplomats and submitted by Costa Rica to the United
Nations as a discussion document (A/C.1/52/7 )
The purposes of the
model Nuclear Weapons Convention include demonstrating the feasibility of a
framework approach to the elimination of nuclear weapons, and encouraging governments
to enter into nuclear disarmament negotiations. Another purpose is to educate
and engage the public in the progress towards nuclear disarmament. The process
of designing and debating a nuclear weapons convention is useful in a number
of ways:
1. it can help identify
policies that are inconsistent with the goal of nuclear disarmament;
2. it can help overcome some of the barriers that make nuclear abolition appear
utopian;
3.it can help prepare societies for the day when political will to begin negotiations
emerges.
Click
here for the full text of the draft NWC
(from Security and Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, a publication
of IPPNW, IALANA, LCNP & INESAP)
For HTML version go
to http://www.ippnw.org
The Nuclear
Weapons Convention Monitor
Edited by Merav Datan of IPPNW/ PSR and comes out annually.
The Monitor collects updates and opinions on the Nuclear Weapons Convention
and is an excellent resource on the nuclear weapons debate.
‹ Nuclear Weapons Convention Monitor,
April 2000
‹ Nuclear Weapons Convention Monitor,
April 2001
‹ **New** Nuclear Weapons
Convention Monitor, June 2002
Nuclear Weapons Convention Monitor, April 2000
l Introduction
l Section 1
Nuclear Disarmament Today: Setbacks, Next Steps,
and the Ultimate Goal, by Merav Datan
Deterrence: Is It Wise? by Alan Cranston
Next Steps by Scila Elworthy
De-alert Nuclear Weapons by Waheguru Pal Singh
Sidhu
No First Use: one Key Step Towards the Nuclear Weapons
Convention by Hui Zhang
Missile Defence: A Roadblock to Nulcear Disarmament
by Charles Ferguson
International
Security: Signs of Change and Conflict
l Section 2
Public
and Political Profile for a Nuclear Weapons Convention by Alyn Ware
Nuclear Weapons Convention Disccussed in UK Parliament
Nuclear Weapons Convention in the United Nations
Support Builds for US Congressional Resolution on a Nuclear Weapons Convention
Consultations and Roundtables on the Nuclear Weapons Convention
Support for a Nuclear Weapons Convention in Aoteroa-New Zealand
The Public Supports a Nuclear Weapons Convention
l Section 3
Implementation
and Verification of a Nuclear Weapons Conventionby Merav
Datan
Nuclear Weapons Cannot Counter Terrorism by Rebecca
Johnson
The "Breakout" Problem and Verification
by Trevor Findlay
National Implementation of a Nuclear Weapons Convention
by Treasa Dunworth
The Protection of Confidential Compliance Information
by Kathleen Lawland
Difficulties in Eliminating C3I Facilities by Michael
Kraig
Societal Verification by Anabel Dwyer
l
Section 4
Scientific
Responsibility in the Nuclear Age by Merav Datan
Scientific Group of Experts to Prepare for the NWC
by Martin Kalinowski
Scientists and the Military by M.V.Ramana
Peace Pledge Movement for Scientists by Tatsujiro
Suzuki and Susan Pickett
Excerpts from an Open Letter by a Former Weapons Scientist
l
Section 5
Social Context and Political Change by Merav Datan
Economic Aspects by John Kenneth Galbraith
Health, Environment, Land and Trearies by Lorraine
Rekmans
Language and Pointillism, Minutiae and Macro-disarmament
by Stephanie Fraser
(Con)fusion: Down in the Dumps in the Nuclear Age
by Felicity Hill
Nuclear
Weapons Convention Monitor, April 2001
l Introduction
l
Section 1
Nuclear Disarmament Today
NWC Resolutions, Statements and Analyses: Australia,
Canada, China, Costa Rica, Japan, Malaysia, United Kingdom, United States and
more Responses to the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention
The Road to a Nuclear Weapons Convention by Alyn
Ware
Nuclear Weapons Convention Workshop by Peter Nicholls
Are We on the Way to Nuclear Zero? by Jozef Goldblat
Law As a Process by Penelope Simons
Trident in the Dock by Kathleen Sullivan
l Section 2
Nuclear
Choices by Merav Datan
Modern Nuclear War by Martin Butcher
National Missile Defense: The Terms of the Debate
by Dan Plesch
US Missile Defense and China's Nuclear Arms Control
by Hui Zhang
Morality Play: Star Wars vs. Nuclear Abolition by
Kevin Martin
Amputating Realism by Felicity Hill
Moving Beyond Missile Defenses Concept Paper
Nuclear Weapons Free Zones Uppsala Declaration
All India National Convention for Nuclear Disarmament
and Peace Interim Charter
l Section 3
Science and Verification by Merav Datan
Verification of a Nuclear Weapons Free World: Closing
the Gaps by Oliver Meier
Verifying Comprehensive Nuclear Disarmament from Verification
Yearbook 2000
Societal Verification from Verification Yearbook 2000
A Comprehensive Missile Control Regime by Andrew
Lichterman
Scientistsí and Engineersí Pledge to Renounce Weapons
of Mass Destruction with Rationale
Nuclear Verification United Kingdom Working Paper
l Section 4
Health,
Environment, and Energy by Merav Datan
Pangea: An Aid to Nuclear Disarmament? by Susan
Wareham and Clare Henderson
Pangea Exposed by Harry Cohen
A Global Truth Commission on Nuclear Weapons Damage
by Arjun Makhijani
Engaged Democracy for the Nuclear Age Nuclear Truth
Commission
Safe Nuclear Disarmament a Research Agenda
Nuclear
Weapons Convention Monitor, June 2002
l Introduction,
by Merav Datan
l Section 1: Complete Nuclear Disarmament
Ottawa Summary
Questions
Recurrent Themes and Participants
l Section 2: Verification: General Considerations and
Phases
Questions and comments
Verification Requirements for Transition to Low Levels,
by Steve Fetter
l Section 3: Existing and Pending Disarmament and Verification
Regimes
Questions and Comments
The Verification and Compliance Regimes for a Nuclear
Weapon-Free World, by Trevor Findlay
l Section 4: Considerations of Complete Nuclear Disarmament:
Materials, Facilities, Warheads, and Delivery Systems
Questions and Comments
Fissile Materials Considerations, by Annette Schaper
Diagram 1:
(pdf) Nuclear weapons usable fissile materials
Diagram
2: (pdf) Properties
of weapons usable fissile material
Diagram
3:(pdf) Increasing the security of fissile materials
Nuclear Disarmament and the International Control
of Delivery Systems, by Jurgen Scheffran
l Section 5: Legal and Structural Aspects of Nuclear
Disarmament: Compliance, Implementation, and Societal Verification
Questions and Comments
Legal Aspects of a Nuclear Weapons Convention,
by John Burroughs and Andrea Pistocchi
l Section 6: The Future of Security Regimes
Challenges to Multilateral Arms Control and Non-Proliferation,
by Daryl Kimball
Nuclear Confidence Building Measures in South Asia,
by Jaya Tiwari
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