BAN!
BULLETIN FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Useful publications
Re: Nuclear Weapon-Free World
(1) In summer of 1994, the International Network of Engineers and
Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP) formed a study group
"Beyond the NPT" consisting of some 50 scientists and engineers
and joined by experts from other fields. On the occasion of last
year's NPT Review Conference, they presented a comprehensive
scientific document named "Beyond the NPT: A Nuclear Weapon-Free
World". This unique 188 page study promotes a concept for the
elimination of nuclear weapons, hoping, and in fact suggesting,
that the extension of the NPT is followed by multilateral
negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC). Based on case
studies and technical expertise by international scientists and
engineers, the study elaborates on international efforts aiming
for a nuclear weapon-free world regime, including
- decisive disarmamental steps, reaching, for example, beyond the
START II Treaty;
- a truly comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty;
- a comprehensive cut-off convention banning all production and
use of both military and "civilian" weapon usable nuclear
materials;
- measures to prevent horizontal and vertical proliferation of
launching systems (eg. in particular the reduction of and
limitation on ballistic missiles);
- regional approaches to nuclear disarmament, such as
weapon-free zones and cut-off agreements.
The cornerstone of this regime, however, will be the proposed
NWC. Future work of the Study Group will focus an specifying the
various steps within the framework of a Draft Nuclear Weapons
Convention. (Source: Juergen Scheffran, INESAP]
The study can be
ordered from:
INESAP c/o IANUS
Darmstadt Technical University,
Schlossgartenstr. 9
D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Tel.: (49-6151)
16-3016 or 16-4368
Fax: (49-6151) 16-6039
e-mail:
ianus@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de
or:
INES (address see letterhead of BAN!)
(2) The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War, in association with the UK-Based Oxford Research Group, have
published a Handbook for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World which
contains up-to-date information and ideas for activists in many
fields.
Available from:
IPPNW
126 Rogers Street
Cambridge MA 02142-1096, USA
Tel.: (1-617) 868 5050
Fax: (1-617) 868 2560
email: ippnw@oln.comlink.apc.org
(3) "Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons
Production and It; Health and Environmental Effects" is the name
of 666-page book published by IPPNW USA and the US Institute for
Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
Available from:
IEER, USA
Tel.: (1301) 270 5500
Fax: (1-301) 270 3029
e-mail: ieer@igc.apc.org
or:
MIT Press, e-mail: mitpressorders@mit.edu
Re: Nuclear weapon-free zones
On 15 December 1995, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,
Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam signed
the Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Treaty. Three days
earlier, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution A/RES/50/78
on the "Final Text of the African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
Treaty" without a vote. Summaries of both documents have been
published by the Britain-based Verification Technology
Information Centre (VERTIC) in a supplement to its publication
"Trust and Verify", No. 63/January 1996.
For orders, contact:
VERTIC
Carrara House
20-21 Embankment Place
London WC2N 6WN, UK
Tel.: (44-171) 925 0867
Fax: (44-171) 925 0861
e-mail: vertic@gn.apc.org
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