The implications of the 2017 UN Nuclear Prohibition Treaty for existing and proposed nuclear-weapon-free zones

Hamel-Green, Michael

doi:10.1080/14781158.2018.1438387

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“…Firstly, this dialogue may well lay the ground for understanding of shared experiences previously either not understood or not acknowledged. The example that comes most readily to mind is exactly the shared experience of use of nuclear weapons on their respective citizenries 62 Secondly, such discussion could advance discussion of the desirability of a Northeast Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, and exploration of both particular models and possible pathways (Hamel-Green 2018). All NWFZ concepts implicitly advance awareness of differing understandings of accountability in relation to different aspects of nuclear weapons.…”

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“…Both the Southeast Asian and Pacific islands regions show a sharp division in each region between a small number of Nuclear Supporting States and a large number of ban treaty supporters. Japan, South Korea and Australia, the three major US allies in the region, have opposed the treaty, sometimes vociferously 13 None of these three principal Hamel-Green (2018); and Nautilus Institute, Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Briefing Book. 13 Some sources classify Thailand as a United States ally in Southeast Asia, and accordingly cite its strong support for the ban treaty to contradict erroneous claims that adherence to the treaty is incompatible with alliance with a nuclear state.…”

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Hope Becomes Law: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the Asia-Pacific Region

Tanter

2021

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force on January 2021, but has a long way to go towards institutionalisation and its intended impact on the dominant presumption of the legitimacy of nuclear weapons. Dialogue on the treaty in the Asia-Pacific region faces a suite of issues regarding movement of the treaty towards institutionalisation as a regime. The effectiveness of regional dialogues will be affected by the following:

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Hope Becomes Law: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the Asia-Pacific Region

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2021

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The Nuclear Ban Treaty and 2018 Disarmament Forums: An Initial Impact Assessment

Hamel-Green

2018

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

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The July 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will come into force when 50 UN Member States ratify it. The new treaty has been condemned by nuclear weapon states on the grounds of its claimed adverse impacts on Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and for not taking account of progress through stepby-step incremental measures. Supporters of the new treaty, including 122 UN Member states, have been concerned about the lack of substantive nuclear disarmament progress as envisaged under Article VI of the NPT. This study analyses the arguments for and against the new treaty in the context of recent 2018 NPT and Conference on Disarmament (CD) sessions, and regional nuclear disarmament arrangements. It draws upon the discussions and debates at the Geneva 23 April-4 May 2018 NPT Preparatory Committee, and positions taken in the 2018 CD sessions, to assess immediate and potential longer-term impacts of the TPNW. The roles of regional measures nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) and weapon-of-mass-destruction-free zones (WMDFZs) are also considered in the context of the TPNW and the NPT. The study argues that the TPNW, through its normative delegitimation and stigmatisation of nuclear weapons, is already creating a discernible impetus for substantive nuclear disarmament within and beyond the NPT and CD forums, despite the present resistance mounted by the nine nuclear-armed states.

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The implications of the 2017 UN Nuclear Prohibition Treaty for existing and proposed nuclear-weapon-free zones

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Hope Becomes Law: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the Asia-Pacific Region

Hope Becomes Law: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the Asia-Pacific Region

The Nuclear Ban Treaty and 2018 Disarmament Forums: An Initial Impact Assessment

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