Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

strike for peace influenced the government to ban the nuclear testing by protesting. They used legal pressure that included petitions, demonstrations, letter writing, mass lobbies, and lawsuits to prevent the nuclear weapon testing and Vietnam War. More importantly, they helped to sign the nuclear test ban treaty. Briefly, the nuclear test ban treaty is the treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water (also known as the Moscow Treaty) was signed on August 5, 1963 in Moscow. Parties to the agreement were the USSR, the USA and the UK. The Treaty entered into force on October 10, 1963 and was opened for signature by other countries since August 8, 1963 in Moscow, Washington and London. Depositories of the Treaty are the USSR (The Russian Federation), the United States and the United Kingdom. Currently, the treaty consisted of 131 governments. Initially, the United States government was opposing to sign the treaty due to the economic reasons. Around 2000 women gathered in Washington D.C and protested against the nuclear testing and to sign the treaty. Women were chanting about the potential poison from the nuclear weapon that could affect the environment and people. Eventually, Women peace for strike members “picketed the White House, the United Nations headquarters in New York City, and the Pentagon to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear weapons and to war” (“300 Women Protest here Against Nuclear Testing." New York Times). They were…

The Film, Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age is written and directed by Dennis OʻRourke. The film was released in 1986 and won the Peace Film Award in Berlin later that year. The film gives a well-balanced insight on the impacts on the indigenous communities from the Castle Bravo nuclear testing of 1954, in the Marshal Islands. The film shows multiple perspectives of the event from personal accounts of the indigenous people, to military personal, and even US political leaders. Declassified…

diplomacy to avert North Korea’s nuclear proliferation and prevent further action is extremely necessary but it is not efficient enough. I think a more successful way is to create a regimen so that North Korea has no choice but to denuclearize. Schelling states “coercion requires finding a bargain, arranging for him to be better off doing what we want-worse off not doing what we want-when he takes the threatened penalty into account.”1 The goal of coercive diplomacy is to not only stop North…

The proper Global Security role of the United States in the international order over the next 20 years will need to be a “lead by example mentality.” There needs to be a better U.S. and China (G2) relationship in order to tackle the major ecumenical quandaries the world faces such as climate change, economic imbalances, nuclear proliferation, and interventions in failed states, terrorism, energy, and food security. The U.S. needs to take the initiative and dissever itself from the notion of “the…

developing nuclear weapon. Cyber-warfare like Stuxnet is an attack that has a prearranged political purpose. It uses information and data as resources of an attack (Janczewski 6). Terrorists implement attacks in cyberspace, and they usually combat against governments and use every possible method to achieve their goals (Janczewski 2). Then, can cyber-warfare be considered as a traditional war in political view even if it does not generate casualties? Craig Greathouse says it is narrow-minded to…

In 2005, the U.S. and North Korea were in conflict due to North Korea’s money laundering bank, Banco Delta Asia (BDA), and then the talks had been delayed. In 2005, in the middle of delaying, North Korea conducted their 1st nuclear test which brought international condemnation. When a ‘2.13 agreement’ was made in 2007, it seemed that they got a clue to the solution of the problem. The agreement was composed of shutting down and disabling nuclear facilities in North Korea. In return, other…

North Korea is no stranger when it comes to nuclear suspicion. This is evident in their history of behavior and lack of disclosure in regards to their use of nuclear activity. On December 31st 1992 both North Korea and South Korea merged to create an agreement banning nuclear weapons. According to the text, both parties were allowed permission to inspect “objects on the other’s territory”. However, the conflict with the agreement was there was not a set procedure explaining how these…

Iranian and North Korea nuclear crisis causes apprehension that deteriorating security condition in the Middle East will encourages additional countries to seek nuclear weapons. Iran nuclear program will open the nuclear armament race in the Middle East. Iran is seeking for nuclear bomb for many reasons such as security and political, domestic at the same time that will encourage many states in the regions to acquire nuclear bomb Saudi Arabia, Egypt. We can reduce the proliferation risk the…

can help describe and explain the national security issue of anticipating a nuclear armed Iran. First, game theory can aid in deducing behavior where players, will seek to maximize their utility and where information is the key to succeed. Secondly, the Rational Actor and Organizational Behavior Models will aid in describing systemic and state levels of Iran’s actions regarding its suspected nuclear weapons program. Lastly, Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions, especially when crises…

PURPOSE AND OVERVIEW The purpose of this briefing book is to provide an outline of the Russian Federation’s objectives, strategies, and key issues in relation to the diplomatic settlement of the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula through the resumption of the six-party talks. The talks will officially take place on the 29th of October in the Global Links room (Building 1A, Floor 2) in Beijing. Each negotiation round will take approximately 2 hours. In these negotiations, all parties (The…