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Sept 26 High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament

High Opportunity for Nuclear Disarmament at High-Level Meeting, HUFFINGTON POST,  Jonathan Granoff President, Global Security Institute,   09/23/2013  Every nation in the world has been invited to participate at the highest political level in the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament scheduled for Sep. 26. This has never happened before. We have never been at such a moment of crisis and opportunity.

The crisis arises because the rational route forward which has been identified by the vast majority of the world’s countries in support of advancing a convention banning nuclear weapons or, as the secretary general has also suggested, a framework of legal agreements achieving elimination, has not been supported by the U.S. or Russia, two states with more than 95 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons.

Thus, progress toward disarmament lacks the galvanizing focus preliminary negotiations on a treaty would provide. It is also a moment of opportunity since except for India and Pakistan, no states with nuclear weapons are actually hostile to one another…….

September 24, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general