Rosdivan
30-12-2007, 00:09
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Today the Commonwealth of Rosdivan announces the formation of a new international initiative: the Nuclear Disarmament League.
The horrors of nuclear warfare cannot be exaggerated. In a single instant, a city and most of its populace are gone, the survivors often horribly maimed and left to fend for themselves as food, water, and medicine are no longer available. In an hour, once prosperous nations are reduced to thing but rubble and vast firestorms, their populations slaughtered. Even the very air becomes poisonous, as vast plumes of radioactive fallout contaminate, sicken, and kill those who survived the initial blasts and firestorms.
Worsening the situation are continual arms races as each nation strives to have such a large nuclear deterrent force that no opposing nation would attempt to engage them in a nuclear war. Sadly, as we have seen all too often, these deterrents fail to work and the result is tragedy for billions of people.
Even when there is not a nuclear war, however, nuclear weapons exact an indirect toll on a nation's populace. They absorb vast sums of money, both to build and maintain, but also to protect in the eventuality of another nation's strike. These tremendous sums of money could be better put to use for the aid of the people, whether through government programs or simply through less taxation.
Thus the proposal of the Commonwealth of Rosdivan for the formation of the Nuclear Disarmament League. This League has as its goal the reduction in global nuclear armament and in the peaceful preemption of non-nuclear states deploying nuclear weapons. Accordingly, each member pledges the following:
To reduce the nuclear weapons in their arsenal to as low a level as practical, completely if possible.
To donate twenty billion USD per annum to global disarmament ventures.
To provide peaceful nuclear technology to nations that desire it and pledge not to develop nuclear weapons as a result.
To transfer such technology as is appropriate to eliminate the need for nuclear weapons in lower technology nations and so reduce their perceived need for nuclear weapons.
Today the Commonwealth of Rosdivan announces the formation of a new international initiative: the Nuclear Disarmament League.
The horrors of nuclear warfare cannot be exaggerated. In a single instant, a city and most of its populace are gone, the survivors often horribly maimed and left to fend for themselves as food, water, and medicine are no longer available. In an hour, once prosperous nations are reduced to thing but rubble and vast firestorms, their populations slaughtered. Even the very air becomes poisonous, as vast plumes of radioactive fallout contaminate, sicken, and kill those who survived the initial blasts and firestorms.
Worsening the situation are continual arms races as each nation strives to have such a large nuclear deterrent force that no opposing nation would attempt to engage them in a nuclear war. Sadly, as we have seen all too often, these deterrents fail to work and the result is tragedy for billions of people.
Even when there is not a nuclear war, however, nuclear weapons exact an indirect toll on a nation's populace. They absorb vast sums of money, both to build and maintain, but also to protect in the eventuality of another nation's strike. These tremendous sums of money could be better put to use for the aid of the people, whether through government programs or simply through less taxation.
Thus the proposal of the Commonwealth of Rosdivan for the formation of the Nuclear Disarmament League. This League has as its goal the reduction in global nuclear armament and in the peaceful preemption of non-nuclear states deploying nuclear weapons. Accordingly, each member pledges the following:
To reduce the nuclear weapons in their arsenal to as low a level as practical, completely if possible.
To donate twenty billion USD per annum to global disarmament ventures.
To provide peaceful nuclear technology to nations that desire it and pledge not to develop nuclear weapons as a result.
To transfer such technology as is appropriate to eliminate the need for nuclear weapons in lower technology nations and so reduce their perceived need for nuclear weapons.