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The ICAN Campaign. ICAN stands for International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons. Nuclear Weapons -Declared States. Nuclear Weapons - De Facto States. Israel – 75-200 India – 40-50 Pakistan – 25-50 Nth Korea - ?. Nuclear Weapons. Numbers by Region. Status Of Key Treaties In 2006.
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The ICAN Campaign ICAN stands for International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons
Nuclear Weapons - De Facto States Israel – 75-200 India – 40-50 Pakistan – 25-50 Nth Korea - ?
Status Of Key Treaties In 2006 • NPT: Signed-188, Ratified-188 • CTBT: Signed-175, Ratified-122 (“Annex 2”-33) • FMCT: Treaty in draft form • NWC: Treaty in draft form
Status Of The Non-proliferation & Disarmament Regimes • The risk of nuclear war has not gone away and is in fact increasing • The opportunity presented by the end of the cold war was squandered • Multilateral disarmament deadlocked
ICAN • ICAN to address the erosion of the global nuclear disarmament regime • Nuclear Weapons Convention – Review, update, progress • MAPW to take a leading role within IPPNW and the global peace movement in the ICAN Campaign
Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) • Draft text produced by NGOs • Submitted to the UN by Costa Rica in 1997 • NWC would prohibit: • development • testing • production • stockpiling • transfer • use and threat of use
What ICAN Would Aim For • IPPNW members feel that a coordinated effort across states and institutions, in the framework of voluntary governmental and non-governmental participation, is necessary if there is to be a reversal of the nuclear threat. • One element of such coordination will be a multilateral agreement to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons ~ a Nuclear Weapons Convention.
How To Work Towards A NWC • It is strongly felt that the campaign for a NWC would need to be based on an Ottawa style process that lead to the Landmines Treaty – a strong and effectively coordinated global coalition of NGO's and international organisations that drew in governments, starting with Canada, and achieved a treaty in the space of five years.
Phases for Elimination • All States possessing nuclear weapons will be required to destroy their arsenals according to a series of phases.
Step by Step… • The Convention outlines a series of five phases for the elimination of nuclear weapons beginning with: • taking nuclear weapons off alert • removing weapons from deployment • removing nuclear warheads from their delivery vehicles • disabling the warheads • removing and disfiguring the "pits" • and placing the fissile material under inter-national control.
Fissile Materials And Delivery Vehicles • The Convention also prohibits the production of weapons-usable fissile material and requires delivery vehicles to be destroyed or converted to make them non-nuclear capable.
Working Towards A Nuclear Weapons Free World • Today some of these issues may appear intractable, and there is no guarantee that they are soluble. • However, a robust and open debate is the most likely - if not the only - way to generate creative solutions and engage the broad transnational and cross-industrial involvement necessary for a nuclear weapons free world.
Nuclear Weapons Knowledge • Nuclear weapons knowledge cannot be disinvented. However, a vast portion of the knowledge, design and maintenance information can and should be destroyed once it is no longer necessary for disarmament.
Our Responsibility • Moreover, and precisely because we cannot return to a world innocent of nuclear weapons knowledge, the answer to the "genie out of the bottle" is to increase scientific responsibility and awareness of potential proliferation risks.
Get Involved • For further information about the NCW, please see: http://www.ippnw.org/NWC.html • or contact the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) www.mapw.org.au phone: (03) 8344 1637 email: mapw@mapw.org.au