Post by Paffnia on Mar 18, 2016 8:22:08 GMT -5
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Repeal "Nuclear Material Safeguards"
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
Category: Repeal | Resolution: GA#351 | Proposed by: Wrapper
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
Category: Repeal | Resolution: GA#351 | Proposed by: Wrapper
Description: WA General Assembly Resolution #351: Nuclear Material Safeguards (Category: International Security; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Argument: The General Assembly:
AFFIRMING that the security of nuclear weaponry and materials is necessary to prevent their acquisition and use by terrorist organizations;
REGRETTING that GAR#351, "Nuclear Material Safeguards", is flawed in its attempt to accomplish this goal;
ALARMED that clause 4 enables poorer nations, tinpot dictators and outlaw states who nevertheless have obtained nuclear technology by ill-gotten means to receive funding and technological assistance from the World Assembly as a reward for doing so;
CONCERNED that the phrase "the wrong hands" as referenced in clauses 3 and 4 is undefined and that "the wrong hands" is a fatally flawed concept since, in a conflict between two nations or groups of nations, each side would subjectively consider the other "the wrong hands";
DISTRESSED that clause 2, which allows for such technology to be bought and sold, in fact does not serve to secure intellectual property associated with nuclear weapons and reactors, and instead promotes the dissemination of intellectual property, thereby increasing, not reducing, the chances of such knowledge getting into "the wrong hands", which contravenes the aims of the resolution;
AGHAST that the net effect of GAR#351 would result in the eventual dissemination of nuclear secrets to non-WA nations, which outnumber member nations by about six to one;
HOPING that this well-intentioned but indefensible resolution will be replaced by one that genuinely serves to secure nuclear technology and materials;
HEREBY repeals GAR#351, "Nuclear Material Safeguards".
