International Relations in Latin America by Andrea Oelsner

Author:Andrea Oelsner [Oelsner, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Latin America, General, Political Science, International Relations
ISBN: 9781135476960
Google: UvJSAQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11T01:19:24+00:00

Global context of nuclear regimes

Along with an international increase in the interest in atomic energy after the Second World War, so too was there an increase in the concern for the threat of nuclear proliferation. This was immediately reflected in the first resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in 1946, which called for the control of atomic energy to the extent necessary to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes, and the elimination of nuclear weapons from national armaments under a system of effective safeguards.59

During the following decades various comprehensive plans were devised calling for general and complete disarmament, or alternatively proposing the establishment of an international authority to own, manage and control all atomic energy activities throughout the world, as put forward by the “Baruch Plan” of the 1940s. Other proposals envisaged less ambitious measures of disarmament or arms regulation and control. Regarding the latter, Joseph E. Johnson notes that 1963 stands out as a banner year:

In June of that year, what is known as the “hot line” communications link was established between Moscow and Washington as an arms control or confidence-building measure which could help to avert war by miscalculation, accident, or breakdown in communications; in August, the partial test ban treaty prohibiting nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater was signed in Moscow (and subsequently signed or acceded to by more than 100 states); and in October the General Assembly of the United Nations called for a permanent ban on nuclear and mass destruction weapons in outer space, and welcomed the expressions of intention by the Soviet Union and the United States to that effect.60

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