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Banning Weapons of Mass Destruction
Frederick N. Mattis
ISBN: 0-313-36538-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-36538-6
129 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/20/2009
List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: The threat of weapons of mass destruction is still viable, and unless proper motions are made to prohibit this, global safety is still at risk. Prior arms control agreements have moved humanity within striking distance of global prohibition, but yet these weapons of mass destruction remain. This enlightening work discusses original principles for a treaty banning nuclear and chem-bio weapons worldwide. Mattis argues that a proposed new nuclear treaty, replacing today's inadequate 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty, would demand unanimous accession by States which must be achieved before such a treaty enters into force. By asking essential questions, and offering value-creative proposals for nuclear treaty provisions, this work offers a clear path to the daylight of worldwide weapons of mass destruction prohibition.

Not only is global safety threatened by the use of nuclear and chem-bio weapons, but more inclusively, today, society is at risk of nuclear weapons being stolen or acquired by terrorists for purposes of destruction. This risk lends to a necessary treaty that would require down-blending of highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium to eliminate this prospect. The heart of this work is its delineation of necessary elements for a nuclear ban treaty that addresses inevitable concerns of all States, especially today's nine nuclear weapon States. Mattis addresses 17 major proposed treaty provisions that include: how to suitably ascertain “unanimous accession” by states to a nuclear ban treaty (unanimity being a condition for entry into force); requirement that states be signatories to the current chemical and biological weapons bans [CWC/BWC] prior to signing a nuclear ban treaty; “non-withdrawal” by states from the treaty once it is in effect; necessary and new verification elements for banning nuclear weapons; the establishment, via nuclear ban provision, of “non-withdrawal” from the CWC and BWC. By asking essential questions, and offering illuminating proposals for nuclear ban treaty provisions, the work offers a path to a safer future through worldwide prohibition of weapons of mass destruction.
Table of Contents:
  • Authors Acknowledgements
    List of Abbreviations
    Chapter 1. The Landscape of Nuclear Weapons
    Chapter 2. Partial Measures—De-Alerting and No First Use
    Chapter 3. Nuclear Ban Entry into Force
    Chapter 4. Should Withdrawal Be Permitted?
    Chapter 5. Verification, Disposition of HEU, and Reprocessing
    Chapter 6. Problematic States
    Chapter 7. Weapons Elimination
    Chapter 8. Superseding Today's Non-Proliferation Treaty
    Chapter 9. Prior Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Weapons
    Chapter 10. Reservations
    Chapter 11. Countering Near-Earth Objects
    Chapter 12. Societal Verification
    Chapter 13. Other Matters
    Chapter 14. Summary
    Appendix A: Analysis of the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention
    Appendix B: 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty
    Appendix C: 1972 Biological Weapons Convention
    Appendix D: 2005 Six-party Joint Statement of Principles
    Appendix E: Response to U.S. Rationale for Nuclear Weapons
    Notes
About the Author: Frederick N. Mattis is an independent scholar of nuclear and chem-bio weapons.
LCC Class: 327.1'745-dc22
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