Removing the whole stockpile of nuclear weapons has remained the predominant objective among all disarmament activities.

Concerned that the total number of nuclear weapons deployed and in stockpile still amounts to many thousands,

Israel, the only State in the region which possesses nuclear facilities and a nuclear stockpile, must accede to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Italian Law n. 497 of 14.10.1974 (article 9) sanctions the stockpile store of nuclear weapons with imprisonment from 3 to 12 years.

After all, North Korea s reaction to the Bush administration s policies was to drop out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, restart its nuclear program, and further develop its weapons production. Indeed, it is believed that North Korea during this time increased its stockpile of nuclear weapons.

The more recent Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) prohibits the stockpile, production, and use of chemical weapons.

It should be noted that the principal author of the aforementioned text still has in its power a great stockpile of nuclear weapons, despite the fact that it has clear obligations with respect to nuclear disarmament and non proliferation, including vertical proliferation, as established by the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

We stress the need for an overall reduction of the global stockpile of nuclear weapons, in accordance with Article VI of the NPT, in particular by those with the largest arsenals.

All of its nuclear facilities must also be placed under the IAEA safeguards regime and its nuclear stockpile must be eliminated.

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They hope that this Conference can bring the twin threats of weapons of mass destruction and the world apos s growing stockpile of conventional weapons under control.

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We will give credit where credit is due to efforts to de alert and stockpile weapons, but will insist on further reductions in the strategic and non strategic nuclear arsenals and the implementation of steps agreed upon.

improvements in nuclear weapons by some nuclear weapon states.

It is deeply troubling that the US has allocated 185 billion to augment its nuclear stockpile over the next decade, on top of the ordinary annual nuclear weapons budget of more than 50 billion. Just as unsettling is the Pentagon s push for the development of nuclear armed drones H bombs deliverable by remote control.

Stockpile management assistance was provided for 340,378 weapons and capacity development activities providing training for 800 officials, mainly on small arms and light weapons and ammunition safety and security.

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Lastly, the United States intended to maintain indefinitely sufficient responsive infrastructure to enable timely reconstitution to larger force levels, if needed, field new or modified nuclear weapons to respond to a stockpile surprise or meet new requirements, and ensure readiness to conduct an underground nuclear test, if necessary.

Emphasizes the necessity for Israel to declare rejection of nuclear armament and to submit to the UN Security Council and the IAEA a factual statement on its capabilities and stockpile of nuclear weapons and substances, given the fact that those are imperative steps toward making the Middle East a WMD free area, particularly of nuclear weapons, which is essential to the establishment of a comprehensive and just peace in the region.

Nuclear power plants are dangerous, not to mention nuclear weapons.

Recommendations for nuclear disarmament and non proliferation of nuclear weapons .

Italian Law n. 497 of 14.10.1974 (article 9) sanctions the stockpile store of biological weapons with imprisonment from 3 to 12 years.

The nuclear weapons States are committed to systematic and progressive efforts to reduce nuclear weapons globally with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons.

We must continue practical, systematic and progressive efforts to advance nuclear disarmament globally and reduce nuclear weapons towards a world free of nuclear weapons.

A chemical weapons ban should not be hostage to nuclear weapons.

Of those, seven have nuclear weapons.

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A diminishing role for nuclear weapons

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