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Attempts to Reduce and Eliminate Nuclear Weapons through the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Creation of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (2008)

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Treaties Nuclear-weapon-free zones Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons Science and politics 20th century 21st century Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1968)

Nuclear weapons remain the most dangerous weapons of mass destruction threatening our lives and planet. To date, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is the most comprehensive international agreement aimed at limiting these weapons. In response to some of NPT's shortcomings, a large number of nonnuclear weapon states have joined together to create nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs). By doing so, they emphatically rejected nuclear weapons on their soil, in their territorial waters, and in their air space. In addition, they ask nuclear weapon states to solemnly promise not to use nuclear weapons against zone members and to do nothing to promote nuclear weapons in their zones. Currently, much of the Southern Hemisphere is covered by NWFZs. An NWFZ has been newly created in Central Asia, and the League of Arab States is considering one in the Middle East.

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Authors & Contributors
Timothy Andrews Sayle
Holloway, Joshua T.
Susan Colbourn
Dunlap, Christopher Thomas
Konta, Carla
Marte Qvenild
Journals
Development in Practice
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Diplomatic History
British Journal for the History of Science
Australian Journal of Politics and History
Publishers
Bowling Green State University
Viella
University of Washington Press
University of British Columbia Press
Transcript Verlag
The MIT Press
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and politics
Treaties
Science and war; science and the military
Cold War
International relations
People
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von
Supek, Ivan
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Heisenberg, Werner
Hahn, Otto
Born, Max
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Canada
Great Britain
Columbia River
Antarctica
Institutions
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (2004)
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1968)
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