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Nuclear Weapons BANNED. Treaty realised!

As a means of offence, nukes are too powerful to cause any meaningful gain. Nukes are never going to help balance the power between a weak defender and a strong aggressor because it will lead to MAD scenario which is a 100% diplomatic, political, military and economic failure for the weak state - whereas the stronger state will gain sympathy despite being the aggressor. America is the only nation that could use nukes and get away with it but never again.
 
As a means of offence, nukes are too powerful to cause any meaningful gain. Nukes are never going to help balance the power between a weak defender and a strong aggressor because it will lead to MAD scenario which is a 100% diplomatic, political, military and economic failure for the weak state - whereas the stronger state will gain sympathy despite being the aggressor. America is the only nation that could use nukes and get away with it but never again.
I don't think so it's used as a means of defence and it also limits the scope of aggressor's offensive.
 
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super soldiers program. UN is extension of western imperialism.
Trump uncle stole teslas invention and got rich of it. Most ppl dont know but western countries do yes they do steal other countries tech and pretend they did it first etc.
 
As the news states this is the 50th ratification of this agreement which shows this is nothing but horse $hit. I mean what is the point of ratification when even now US and Russia keep enough stock pile to blow up entire planet. No one will follow this treaty unless all G20 nations decide to neutralize their nuclear stockpile until then sit tight.
 

  • As the news states this is the 50th ratification of this agreement which shows this is nothing but horse $hit. I mean what is the point of ratification when even now US and Russia keep enough stock pile to blow up entire planet. No one will follow this treaty unless all G20 nations decide to neutralize their nuclear stockpile until then sit tight.
    Absolutely
 
lead to MAD scenario

You have contradiction in your own statement , THIS alone is the sole reason enough to make the Aggressor think 1000 times.


whereas the stronger state will gain sympathy despite being the aggressor.

IF there is anything left of it :rofl:

We understand, your Pain is being reflected in your words :lol:
 
Now Israel and India need to decommission their nukes.

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Even IF you ban everyone's nukes, they will develop again in secret because they know that everyone else is also doing.
 
Nukes are obsolete in front of new tech smart weapons which are being developed.



(CNN)Honduras just became the 50th nation to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on Saturday. The accord has now met the required threshold to enter into force in 90 days -- on January 22.
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This event marks the first time since Hiroshima that the simple possession of nuclear weapons will be deemed a crime under international law -- though it is not binding on nations who do not sign it. The treaty's entry into force could not be timelier.
The President of the United States has the ability to launch a nuclear attack on his own authority, without requiring the authorization of Congress, the Cabinet, the vice president or the Joint Chiefs. It is hard to imagine a more perfect example of the insane danger that we continue to live with as long as we maintain massive arsenals of nuclear weapons.


Even a healthy person, possessed of sound judgment, should not have the ability to launch these terrible weapons. The consequences are simply too great, and people are, well ... human. As humans, we are prone to mistakes, and the technology we have created is too.
Many errors can be corrected. A nuclear war cannot. Studies over the last decade have shown that even a limited nuclear war, involving less than one or two percent of the world's nuclear arsenal, would kill tens of millions directly. Even worse, it would cause worldwide climate disruption and famine putting billions of people at risk and ending civilization as we know it.
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the danger of nuclear war was growing at an alarming rate. Experts, like former Secretary of Defense William Perry, have warned that we are closer to nuclear war than we have ever been and the expert panel at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have set their iconic Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to Armageddon.
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Why do we still have The Bomb?

So, even as we cope with the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed over a million people worldwide, and the economic turmoil it has caused, it is critical that we move as rapidly as we can to eliminate nuclear weapons and the imminent, existential threat they pose.
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The nine countries which possess nuclear weapons are moving in the exact opposite direction. They are all engaged in massive plans to "modernize" their nuclear arsenals and to preserve these weapons for decades to come -- if they are not used first. The US plans to spend over $1 trillion dollars over roughly the next 25 years replacing existing weapons and is deploying new, smaller, more useable nuclear warheads and updating things like laboratories, delivery systems, early warning systems, etc.
And this past week, The New York Times reported that the US took the unprecedented step of pressuring countries that have joined the Treaty to withdraw from it. Given their failure to join the TPNW, will the Treaty make a difference?
Yes, according to former Secretary Perry, who has strongly endorsed the accord. "The new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is an important step towards delegitimizing nuclear war as an acceptable risk of modern civilization," he said.
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As the TPNW enters into force, the nine nuclear powers will not automatically disarm. But the non-nuclear nations and civil society can use the agreement to pressure them into making fundamental changes in their nuclear policy. The TPNW can be used to stigmatize these weapons so they are no longer seen as global status symbols and bulwarks of national security, but rather as the threat to human survival that they really are.
Here in the US we need to understand that national security can only be achieved by the total elimination of all nuclear weapons across the globe. We need to urgently pursue negotiations with all of the other nuclear states for a verifiable, enforceable, time bound agreement to dismantle all nuclear weapons. We may not be able to persuade the other nuclear states to go along with nuclear disarmament, but we don't know that because we have never tried.
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To support the international effort embodied in the TPNW, scientists and physicians, faith leaders and defense experts have launched the Back from the Brink campaign to build support for the US to launch these negotiations. The campaign also calls on the US to take several intermediary steps to lessen the danger as these negotiations proceed.
Consumed with the current Covid-19 crisis, which is seeing a fall surge, it is hard for us to focus on the even greater danger posed by nuclear weapons, but we have to deal with this threat. Our survival and that of our children depends on it.
 
Saturday, Oct. 24 marked the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, 75 years following the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This Oct 24 will go down in history as the day nuclear weapons were declared illegal with the ratification of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The United Nations was founded to promote world peace and security. There is no greater existential threat to our peace and security than the existence of nuclear weapons — and now they are banned.

With Honduras delivering the 50th ratification of the treaty last Saturday, the world has spoken and the global community has banned these most dangerous of weapons, as it has previously banned other weapons of mass destruction: chemical, biologic, landmines and cluster munitions.

This treaty came about following years of stalemate and incremental movement toward disarmament by the nuclear nations despite being treaty-bound for 50 years by Article VI of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to work in “good faith” to abolish their nuclear arsenals. With this current treaty, nuclear weapons are now illegal and those nations who have them, store them, develop them, fund them or threaten their use will now be in breach of international law.

The movement that resulted in this treaty has literally been 75 years in the making.

As a result of the intransigence of the nuclear nations to meet their obligations, a series of three international conferences were convened. These conferences addressed the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, demonstrating the potential for global nuclear famine from even a limited regional nuclear war and the reality that — like climate change — the effects of nuclear weapons did not recognize national boundaries but rather had potential global catastrophic effects.

The conferences were held in Oslo, Norway, in 2013, followed in February 2014 by a second conference in Nayarit, Mexico, with a final gathering in Vienna, Austria, in December 2014, which for the first time included representatives of the U.S. and the United Kingdom. All three were attended by delegations from the International Committee of the Red Cross, and representatives of Pope Francis and were organized in cooperation with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a coalition of civil society groups which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 for this work.

At the final conference, the Austrian government launched the “Humanitarian Pledge,” promising to develop a nuclear weapons ban treaty. This was followed in 2017 when the U.N. held meetings to negotiate a treaty which would for the first time take into account the legacy of the nuclear era, including the health effects on the Hibakusha, the victims of the nuclear bombings, and on those impacted by the mining, testing, and development of these weapons. Consideration was given to the disproportionate impact on girls, women and the elderly and indigenous communities living near nuclear testing sites. The treaty, which came to be known as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, was adopted on July 7, 2017 by 122 nations with the Netherlands voting no and Singapore abstaining. The treaty opened for ratification on Sept. 20, 2017.

With last Saturday’s 50th ratification, the treaty will enter into force in 90 days — on January 22. At that point, nuclear weapons will still exist, but the global community will have a powerful new tool to stigmatize those nations that continue to have them, and the financial institutions and corporations that fund and develop these weapons. Each of us has a role to play in the abolition of these weapons. Our individual role is not necessarily a large role or a small role, it is our role and it is vital.

In the U.S., there is a grassroots movement sweeping across the country endorsed by the medical, scientific, religious and NGO communities similar to the international ICAN campaign. This “Back from the Brink” grassroots campaign has been endorsed by 47 cities including Los Angeles, six state legislative bodies including California’s Assembly and Senate and 344 organizations. This call to prevent nuclear war supports the ban treaty and calls on the United States to lead a global effort by:

1) Renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first

2) Ending the sole, unchecked authority of any president to launch a nuclear attack

3) Taking the U.S. nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert


4) Cancelling the plan to replace its entire arsenal with enhanced weapons

5) Actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals.

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons delivers a clear message from nations across the globe that nuclear weapons threaten the survival of all of humanity and must be eliminated before they eliminate us.

The U.S. needs to embrace this treaty and follow the clear path to nuclear abolition laid out by the “Back from the Brink” campaign. Most importantly it must state unequivocally that it truly seeks the security of the world, free of nuclear weapons — and it must actively pursue negotiations with the other nuclear armed states for an enforceable, verifiable, time bound agreement to dismantle the 14,000 nuclear warheads that remain in the world today. Such an effort must be America’s highest national security priority.

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Does the UN really think Asia will abide by this law? Severely doubt it!

Sucks for Iran though, any showcase of nuclear weapons now and they're pretty doomed.
The TPNW has two types of nations. One who signed and ratified and another who signed but did not ratify.

Countries who signed but did not ratify can still make nukes. Am I right?
 
The United Nations has no legal power. It is nothing. The people there are all just parasites who serve evil banking cabals. Power comes from weapons and having nukes. List of most powerful nations....US, Russia, China, France, Britain, India, Pakistan. oh look they all have nukes. to be safe from invasion and reprisals your family has to have atomics.

heck few nations had anything to do with this anyway.
 
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