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Iran's New Best Friend
Iran now wants the UN to protect it from the impact of sanctions brought on by its own intransigence towards the UN!
Iran has filed a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice, the judicial branch of the UN, over Russia's decision to renege on a 2007 contract for the sale of five or more S-300 antimissile units to Iran.
Russia has said it could not complete the deal due to U.N. Security Council sanctions targeting Iran. The U.N. Security Council has adopted four rounds of penalties over Iran's disputed atomic activities, and the European Union and various countries have enacted unilateral punitive measures. U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929 forbids any nation from exporting antimissile systems to Iran. SourceTo borrow an expression from Iran's old worst friend, this is 'chutzpah.'
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Global Security
@ $2/Day for 8 Months
The nine nuclear weapons states are expected to spend $1 trillion in the next 10 years on acquiring and updating their nuclear weapons systems. This spending includes research, development, weapons assessments and acquisitions to modernize their arsenals. Source However, two billion people live on less than $2/day. If they could just cut their budget by that much for only eight months, they could preserve global security for the rest of us for 10 years.
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A World without War
In " A World without War," Jemes T. Ranney proposes an alternative to war: solving international disputes through international mediation, arbitration, and ajudication, rather than violence. The proposal is simple-abolish nuclear weapons and establish an international regime that not only has the power to resolve interstate disputes, but also enforcement capabilities. Ranney also addresses the opposition to a world court and shows that most objections are based on faulty assumptions. Clearly the old solution to peace is not working. Maybe it's time to give Ranney's suggestion a try and reform international peace mechanisms before it's too late! |
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Nuclear Ban Entry Into Force
The biggest challenge by far to bringing a nuclear abolition treaty into force is to get the nuclear weapons states to actually sign and ratify it. Such a treaty, or a Nuclear Weapons Convention, should include all reasonable inducements in its provisions for the nuclear weapon states to accede to it. In this piece, Frederick N. Mattis suggests provisions, some aspects of which are unprecedented in a treaty, that may well enhance the prospects that a nuclear abolition treaty would gain acceptance by states and enter into force. He starts by defending the view that all states should be required to join a nuclear ban treaty before its entry into force, and next discusses how "all states" could be satisfactorily determined, given that some areas are in flux and "new states" may emerge. Click here to read. |
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Nuke Your Facebook Friends!
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have your finger on THE button? Now you can! Do what only world leaders were able to do until now - NUKEM!
On the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, the Dutch NoNukes Campaign shows you what nuclear weapons can do to your Facebook friends (including the ones who post insipid comments). No, you don't need a red phone on your desk, or encrypted launch codes. Just click here to get to the NUKEM Facebook app.. Use NUKEM to choose a nuke and drop it anywhere in the world. See what a Hiroshima-like bomb would do to London, or what the all devastating 'Tsar-bomba' would do to much of France.
Bomb your own city and see how many Facebook friends die in that first blast, wait a second and watch how many more become 'collateral damage'.
Help us and spread the word: No Nukes!
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