Securing our Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention

Published by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation.

Spring, 2007

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Weapons of Terror: Freeing the world from nuclear, biological and chemical arms

Report of the independent Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission

2006

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Model Nuclear Weapons Convention

An international team of scientists, lawyers, and disarmament specialists drafted and released a Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) in April 1997. This model was submitted by Costa Rica to the United Nations as a discussion draft in November 1997.

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Charter of the United Nations

"We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind..." (From the Preamble)

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

"Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control." (Article VI)

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Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

August, 1996

The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons was established as an independent commission by the then Australian Government in November 1995 to propose practical steps towards a nuclear weapon free world including the related problem of maintaining stability and security during the transitional period and after this goal is achieved.

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