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Paul Meyer
TORONTO STAR Wed May 16 2012
The problems of the international nuclear order are frequent subjects of our daily news, yet scant attention is given to the central treaty that governs this sphere of global activity. With 189 signatories, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) is the world’s most widely subscribed to international security agreement and contains the only legally binding commitment by states to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
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Author Paul Meyer argues that despite the challenge of a restrictive definition of nuclear security, Seoul has the opportunity to brand its own summit success by supporting practical results to secure vulnerable nuclear material and enlarging the summit scope to address threats to the nuclear order of greater saliency and priority than those associated with putative terrorists. |
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OTTAWA CITIZEN By Peter Jones February 27, 2012
The key issue now is when Iran’s nuclear program will have moved underground to the point that it is effectively immune from an Israeli attack.
To listen to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his “best friends” Stephen Harper and John Baird, one would think that the Israeli government has made up its mind about attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, and Canada has made up its mind to support it. After all, if Iran is definitely building a nuclear weapon, and if Iran would use that weapon once it got it, then what is there to talk about? But Israel has not made up its mind about an attack.
In fact, there is a rampant debate underway within official circles in Israel about the advisability of an attack, and not everyone there accepts the proposition that Iran poses an existential threat to Israel.
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Submitted by
Bill Bhaneja, Member, Canadian Pugwash Group and Co-founder, Canadian Peace Initiative(CDPI), www.departmentofpeace.ca
On 30 November 2011, a Private Members Bill C-373: "An Act to Establish a Department of Peace in the Federal Government" was introduced in the House of Commons for first reading by the NDP MP Alex Atamanenko. The Bill was co-seconded by Green Party MP Elizabeth May and Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis.
The full text of the bill c-373 can be accessed on the Parliament of Canada website at the link: http://www.parl.gc.ca/LEGISInfo/BillDetails.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&billId=5280365
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High-level representatives from 53 states, including Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, will be in Seoul to attend the second Nuclear Security Summit on March 26 and 27.
For Seoul, the summit presents several challenges which will have to be handled well if the meeting is to be considered a success. Author Paul Meyer argues that despite the challenge of a restrictive definition of nuclear security, Seoul has the opportunity to brand its own summit success by supporting practical results to secure vulnerable nuclear material and enlarging the summit scope to address threats to the nuclear order of greater saliency and priority than those associated with putative terrorists.
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Au moment où des discussions fructueuses autour du Traité de Bangkok semblent amorcer la mise en vigueue d'une immense zone libre d'armements nucléaires dans le Sud-Est asiatique, il me semble pertinent, voire primordial de sensibiliser mes collègues scientifiques de l'UQAM, qui se penchent sur la problématique du Nord, a l'éventuelle proclamation d':
Une Zone Libre d'Armements Nucléaires Dans L'Arctique
Submission by Prof. Pierre Jasmin to the deliberations of a special committee on the North at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) [pdf] |
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A Nuclear-Free Arctic – WHY NOW?
By ADELE BUCKLEY
[Peace Magazine Jan-Mar 2012, pg. 16-18]
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There is a renewed international recognition of nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) as an element of non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament. The Arctic could be added to the existing seven nuclear-weapon-free zones, covering 116 countries. The outcome of the 2010 Review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) includes an agreement to move forward on long-awaited discussions for a Middle East nuclear-weapon-free zone; that concept is better known than the proposed Arctic NWFZ. Both were included in NPT documents from 2010. |
Climate change has created a “new” Arctic. With access blocked by ice and snow for much of the year, economic activity has been limited. Now, environmental protection is ever more important in the face of opening of new sea lanes for transportation, new resource exploration on sea and land, and exploitation of fisheries. Aboriginal communities must make continuous adjustments for survival, as they handle changes in their resources, which they derive from the fauna and flora of land and sea. Although it has diminished, obsolete Cold-War-type military activity still exists:- regularly scheduled military exercises and nuclear-armed submarines patrolling under the ice. The opportunity to recognize that there must be a natural evolution to a nuclear-free Arctic exists, but we must implore the international community to begin to act now[1] while the window is open.
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