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The Need to Establish a New International Organization and the Adoption of an Implementation and Verification Protocol to the NPT or a New International Convention for the Destruction of All Nuclear Weapons

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The majority of the NPT states parties believes that the treaty, in its current form, is not the appropriate instrument to achieve the destruction of all nuclear weapons and the closure of all nuclear weapon production facilities located in the territory or that are under the jurisdiction or control of all nuclear-weapon states parties to the NPT. Why? The answer is very simple: The NPT does not has an enforcement mechanism that can be used to oblige nuclear-weapon states parties to the treaty to destroy all their nuclear-weapons in a specific period of time. In addition, the NPT does not has also an international mechanism that can be used for the supervision of the implementation of all obligations and commitments assumed by its states parties. The paper presents some proposals to overcome this situation.

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Notes

  1. In the 1990s, there were 13 nuclear–weapon states; this represents eight more than in the 1970s.

  2. The USA used nuclear weapons two times in 1945 against Japan killings more than 200,000 people immediately after the attack and thousands more in the following years.

  3. For a complete set of principles and a possible structure and content of the plan for the destruction of all nuclear weapons and for the closure of all nuclear weapon production facilities, see Morales Pedraza (2009) and Weapons of Terror (2006).

  4. For more information on this specific subject see Morales Pedraza (2009) and Morales Pedraza (2013)

  5. There is no agreement within the international community whether the DPRK has or not nuclear weapons in their military arsenals and how many of these weapons this country has.

  6. Additional information about this important issue can be found in Morales Pedraza (2009) and Morales Pedraza (2013).

References

  • (2006). Weapons of terror: Freeing the world of nuclear, biological, and chemical arms. Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, final report; Stockholm, Sweden, 1 June 2006; p 18.

  • Morales Pedraza, J. (2009). Nuclear disarmament: Concepts, principles and actions for strengthening the non-proliferation regimes. New York: Nova Science. pp 151-157, 201-209, and 211-254.

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  • Morales Pedraza, J. (2013); The proliferation of nuclear weapons: How to stop it?; Germany; LAP Lambert Academic Publishing; pp 66-224; 2013.

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    Jorge Morales Pedraza

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Morales Pedraza, J. The Need to Establish a New International Organization and the Adoption of an Implementation and Verification Protocol to the NPT or a New International Convention for the Destruction of All Nuclear Weapons. Public Organiz Rev 15, 67–77 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-013-0252-9

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