{"id":44450,"date":"2019-03-13T12:47:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44450"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:47:41","slug":"nuclear-powers-need-to-disarm-before-its-too-late%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44450","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Powers Need to Disarm Before It\u2019s Too Late\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nuclear Powers Need to Disarm Before It\u2019s Too Late<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Photograph Source United States Department of Energy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent military clash between India and Pakistan underscores the need for the major nuclear powers \u2014 the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, and France \u2014 finally to move toward fulfilling their obligations under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Treaty\u2019s purpose was not simply to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, but to serve as a temporary measure until Article VI<\/a> could take effect: the \u201ccessation 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 191 countries that signed the NPT \u2014 the most widely subscribed nuclear treaty on the planet \u2014 did so with the understanding that the major powers would de-nuclearize. But in the 50 years since the Treaty was negotiated, the nuclear powers have yet to seriously address eliminating weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While over the years the Americans and the Russians have reduced the number of warheads in their arsenals, they \u2014 along with China \u2014 are currently in the midst of a major modernization of their weapon systems. Instead of a world without nuclear weapons, it is a world of nuclear apartheid, with the great powers making no move to downsize their conventional forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For non-nuclear armed countries, this is the worst of all worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There Are No \u201cLocal\u201d Nuclear Wars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The folly of this approach was all too clear in the recent India and Pakistan dustup. While both sides appear to be keeping the crisis under control, for the first time in a very long time, two nuclear powers that border one another exchanged air and artillery attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While so far things have not gotten out of hand, both countries recently introduced\u00a0military policies<\/a>\u00a0that make the possibility of a serious escalation very real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nuclear Powers Need to Disarm Before It\u2019s Too Late Photograph Source United States Department of Energy The recent military clash between India and Pakistan underscores the need for the major nuclear powers \u2014 the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, and France \u2014 finally to move toward fulfilling their obligations under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15778,5493,581,862],"class_list":["post-44450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-conn-hallinan","tag-counterpunch","tag-nuclear-war","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44451,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44450\/revisions\/44451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}