Global Nuclear Order by Sara Z. Kutchesfahani

Author:Sara Z. Kutchesfahani [Kutchesfahani, Sara Z.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Intergovernmental Organizations, General, Arms Control, Political Science, Security (National & International)
ISBN: 9781351999625
Google: on10DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-26T09:37:58+00:00

Discussion questions

1 Was the NPT a fair bargain?

2 Does the NPT help or hinder global nuclear order?

3 To what extent do the three pillars of the NPT contribute to global nuclear order?

4 Is the onus on the United States to lead in disarmament endeavours? Why? Why not?

5 Would disarmament help or hinder the global nuclear order?

6 What is the likelihood of nuclear weapons being banned?

Notes

1 “Disarmament of the disarmed” was first articulated in 1968 by Argentine Ambassador to the United Nations, José María Ruda. Quoted in Espil, “Argentina”: 73–74.

2 President Johnson made this remark on July 3, 1968, and again at the signing of the NPT on July 19, 1968.

3 Weiler, “Looking Back at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty”: 35.

4 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (July 1, 1968).

5 The use of the comma was noted in Zak, Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age: 309.

6 Weiler, “Looking Back at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty”: 35.

7 Bunn and Rhinelander, “NPT Withdrawal: Time for the Security Council to Step In.”

8 Kirgis, “North Korea’s Withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.”

9 Graham, Jr., “NPT Article VI Origin and Interpretation.”

10 Shaker, The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: 508.

11 Ibid.: 570.

12 Ibid.: 571.

13 Verbatim records of the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee, para. 23.

14 ICAN, “Signature/Ratification Status of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.”

15 Kristensen and Norris, “Global Nuclear Weapons Inventories, 1945–2013”: 75–81; see also more recent updates (from 2014) to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Nuclear Notebook.

16 Kristensen and Norris, “Global Nuclear Weapons Inventories, 1945–2013”; see also more recent updates (from 2014) to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Nuclear Notebook.

17 Charter of the United Nations, Chapter VII: Articles 39, 41, and 42.

18 Bunn and Rhinelander, “NPT Withdrawal: Time for the Security Council to Step In.”

19 Schelling, “Who Will Have the Bomb?”: 77.

20 Ibid.: 78.

21 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1172 (1998).

22 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718 (2006).

23 “National Intelligence Estimates of the Nuclear Proliferation Problem: The First Ten Years, 1957–1967.”

24 US President. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: 280.

25 National Planning Association, 1970 Without Arms Control: 41–42.

26 For the definitive work about the negotiation and the first decade of the NPT, see Shaker, The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

27 O’Halloran Bernstein, “Successes, Challenges, Steps Forward for the NPT Regime.”

28 Resolution 1380 (XIV).

29 Resolution 1576 (XV).

30 Resolution 1664 (XVI).

31 Resolution 1665 (XVI).

32 Resolution 2028 (XX).

33 Resolution 2149 (XXI).

34 Resolution 2153A (XXI).

35 “The Impulse Towards a Safer World: 40th Anniversary of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.”

36 Resolution 2346A (XXII).

37 Resolution 2373 (XXIII).

38 UN Security Council Resolution 255 (1968).

39 Verbatim records of the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee, ENDC/PV.331, para. 19.

40 Rhodes, The Twilight of the Bombs: 176.

41 Quoted in Carasales, “The Evolution of the Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Rapprochement.”

42 Greenwood, Feiveson and Taylor, Nuclear Proliferation Motivations, Capabilities, and Strategies for Control, Nye, “Maintaining a Nonproliferation Regime”, Nye, “NPT: The Logic of Inequality”, Nye, “Nuclear Learning and US – Soviet Security Regimes”, Meyer, The Dynamics of Nuclear Nonproliferation, Smith, “Explaining the Non – Proliferation Regime”, Reiss, Without the Bomb, Sagan, “Why Do

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