Defusing the Nuclear Arms Race

B. Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and Nuclear

The cessation of the nuclear arms race is a reality.

I spent an awful lot of time dealing with the challenge of nuclear arms control the nuclear arms race.

The threat of a global nuclear conflict has been eliminated, and the nuclear missile arms race has ceased.

It also threatens to touch off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

Australia is absolutely opposed to nuclear testing and the participation in the nuclear arms race that this necessarily implies.

There can be no going back to the nuclear arms race of the twentieth century.

The nuclear arms race has stopped, but nuclear proliferation still constitutes a serious potential threat to international security and stability.

Together, these treaties will have the effect of constraining and preventing a future nuclear arms race.

The global focus on nuclear proliferation often obscures the threat posed by the conventional arms race.

It still remains an urgent challenge today to prevent a nuclear arms race and realize a nuclear free world through the nuclear disarmament process.

Mankind is no longer held hostage to nuclear confrontation the nuclear arms race has been halted and, it is hoped, reversed.

Many years ago, when I was a young congressman, I spent an awful lot of time dealing with the challenge of nuclear arms control the nuclear arms race.

Meaningful arms control and confidence building measures could also help to stem the danger of a nuclear arms race in our region.

It exploded an arms race.

Ending the Financial Arms Race

Europe and Asia s Arms Race

Southeast Asia s Widening Arms Race

After all, the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran would most likely exacerbate violent conflict and a nuclear arms race in the region.

Indeed, Israel insists that it is, after all, Iran, not Israel s supposed nuclear capabilities, that triggered the current Middle East nuclear arms race.

It risks triggering a nuclear arms race in the region, and the unraveling of the non proliferation treaty.

Stopping Latin America s Budding Arms Race

Halting and reversing the nuclear arms race in all its aspects is essential in order to avert the danger of war involving nuclear weapons.

Putting such a cap in place will limit the scope of any future resumption of an uncontrolled nuclear arms race and of nuclear proliferation.

In recent years, there have been dramatic and far reaching, indeed historic, steps to reverse the nuclear arms race.

North Korea and Asia s Widening Arms Race

This is anachronistic thinking, which only spurs the nuclear arms race and blocks progress in meaningful discussions on general disarmament.

In South Asia we face a far graver situation than elsewhere because of the threat of a nuclear arms race.

The Conference establishes for the duration of the current session, an Ad Hoc Committee on Nuclear Disarmament under agenda item 1 entitled Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament .

Despite the end of the super Power arms race, the world must still confront the grave dangers of nuclear testing, nuclear proliferation, and the production, transit and disposal of nuclear material.

Such negative developments are fostering increased mistrust among the nuclear weapon States and thus spurring on the nuclear arms race and obstructing the progress of meaningful discussions on general nuclear disarmament.

They do not fear a nuclear attack against Israel, but rather a nuclear arms race in the region and a dramatic shift in power to Israel s disadvantage.

This is not just about Iran, but also about the threat of a nuclear arms race across the entire Middle East.

As we see the end of the nuclear arms race, we do not want to have it replaced by regional arms races, whether to acquire nuclear weapon capability or to achieve greater sophistication in conventional weapons.

Prevention of an arms race in outer space

Prevention of an arms race in outer space

In particular, the de activation of thousands of nuclear warheads under this programme is to be considered an effective measure relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race and to nuclear disarmament

Sixthly, preventing the weaponization of, and an arms race in, outer space, would be conducive to promoting the process of nuclear disarmament.

At that time, peace meant avoiding the nuclear conflagration toward which the bipolar arms race had been sweeping us since the 1950s.

The Conference is further concerned that recent trends in nuclear weapon States suggest an indication of resumption of nuclear arms race, and calls for a diminished role for nuclear weapons in security policies of the nuclear powers.

Moreover, nearby states are likely to launch or further their own nuclear programs in response, leading to a protracted nuclear arms race in one of world s most volatile regions.

At the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva we support the establishment of an Ad Hoc Committee under agenda item 1 Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament .

Even today, they could help prevent an arms race.

70. Prevention of an arms race in outer space