[GA - Defeated] Repeal: “Safeguarding Nuclear Materials”

General Assembly Resolution #418 “Safeguarding Nuclear Materials” (Category: International Security; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Recognizing the precarious nature of international politics, especially between states where there exists the threat of nuclear devastation,

Understanding that the target resolution attempts to preserve peace among nuclear states through the near total deregulation of the construction, trade, and use of nuclear weapons,

Recognizing that this model is unsustainable, and fails to secure peace when nuclear states do not fear retaliation for any nuclear strikes they might commit to,

Alarmed that clause two "maintains the right of member nations to trade nuclear weapons or reactors", to any other state, regardless of the stability or belligerence of those states,

Seeing that this clause prohibits the Assembly from establishing regulations capable of limiting the accumulation of nuclear weapons and material in belligerent nations likely to instigate large-scale nuclear exchange, that is, the very nations that most compromise the principle of mutually assured destruction,

Also recognizing that international tensions between nuclear states cannot ease through the constant threat of an unprovoked first strike,

Observing that the target guarantees member states the right to deploy nuclear weapons in retaliation for any kind of attack, regardless of how minor it may be, and even if that attack occurs in retaliation for an act of aggression by the relevant member states,

Hereby repeals GAR #418, "Safeguarding Nuclear Materials".

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Moderator Edit - Please add WA Nation as shown in the above post

Yuno Edit - I am currently NPA deployed here https://www.nationstates.net/nation=princess_yuno

Against

NPA WA nation is Bobberinov2

For

NPA WA nation is https://www.nationstates.net/nation=flooooooooooooooooooof

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Not just for the reasons stated in the repeal, but for a variety of others. GAR#418 is truly awful.

WA Nation THX1138

For

WA nation is (on NPA assignment) LoudNation1

Against. The target resolution will weaken WA nations by removing their capabilities to maintain a nuclear deterrence through weapons of their own. As stated in GA#418, nuclear weapons could be banned if one writes the legislation to do so; GA#418 prevents that from happening.

WA Nation: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=artemizistan

Edit: Changed vote from "for" to "against" and added the reason.

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Vote: For

Nation: Sundred

For

Nation: Aenglaland

For

WA nation is on NPA assignment

Against

WA is Kranostav

The target resolution actively prevents WA interference in nuclear arms and regulations, an aspect of which has become paramount over time. This interference and/or regulation would put WA nations at a fundamental market and military disadvantage to WA nations wishing to trade and procure such weapons for personal defence.

For the record, this was our stance on the target resolution:

"Safeguarding Nuclear Materials" aims to protect member nations' rights to possess nuclear weapons and use them in cases of defense and war against hostile forces. We wish to remind the WA nations of the region that there are no limitations on what nuclear armaments non-WA member nations may produce and how said nations may use them, and that two former resolutions regarding nuclear materials within WA member nations have been repealed. This creates a situation in which a single resolution limiting the nuclear power of WA member nations could cause detrimental and most certainly fatal military disadvantages for WA member nations against non-WA member nations. Additionally, this resolution ensures that member nations can call upon the Nuclear Energy Safety Commission to secure technology and scientific knowledge as well as provide denuclearization assistance to nations unable to defend said items from hostile forces.

So what has changed? Is it purely the makeup of the people voting in this thread? The repeal itself also fails to reckon with the problem of unilateral disarmament, since most of the nations in existence exist outside of the World Assembly and cannot be subjected to its laws. I also suspect this is designed to open the door to a broader ban on nuclear weapons, and that is something I have long opposed, despite dreaming of a world without nukes.

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WA is Pallaith (obviously).

Pallaith:

I also suspect this is designed to open the door to a broader ban on nuclear weapons, and that is something I have long opposed, despite dreaming of a world without nukes.

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While I am confused by this statement, my confusion isn't that relevant for this vote.

Changing to against for reasons discussed.

WA still LoudNation1, though may move to LoudNation2 in a few minutes.

Against. WA is Syrixia.

Vote is 6-7, voting Against

Against.

WA is Sanjurika

For, I want to add it to food.

WA Nation: Frances Francis the First of France

Against.

WA Nation: New Bremerton

Against. For the reasons that Tlomz gave.

Isimud

Against