Nuclear Weapons
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Global Zero Interactive Map
This interactive map illustrates the history of proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear Weapons : Who Has Nuclear Weapons?
There are five ‘declared’ nuclear weapon states. They are the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia and China. ‘Declared’ means that they have signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as countries which had tested nuclear weapons. No other country that has signed the NPT is allowed to have these weapons.
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Nuclear Weapons : Treaties
The 1960s saw a number of negotiations taking place with the Outer Space Treaty, banning the use of nuclear weapons in space, being signed in 1967.
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Nuclear Weapons : The United Nations
The United Nations was formed in October 1945 and the preamble to the UN Charter reads as follows:
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Nuclear Weapons : Statement on Nuclear Weapons by International Generals and Admirals
We, military professionals, who have devoted our lives to the national security of our countries and our peoples, are convinced that the continuing existence of nuclear weapons in the armories of nuclear powers...
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Nuclear Weapons : Statement of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
The destructiveness of nuclear weapons is immense. Any use would be catastrophic. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to all humanity and its habitat...
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Nuclear Weapons : Statement by Heads of State and Civilian Leaders Worldwide
Statement by Alan Cranston, Former U.S. Senator, Chair of the State of the World Forum. February 2, 1998, Washington, D.C. National Press Club
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Nuclear Weapons : Opposition to Nuclear Weapons
By the late 1950s, there was huge opposition to nuclear weapons. Initially, the protests were about the testing of these weapons and the damage that could do to the environment.
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Nuclear Weapons : Nuclear Testing
Following the end of the second world war, the US began a series of tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
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Nuclear Weapons : Nuclear Testing and the Environment
French testing had so damaged Moruroa Atoll that it was crumbling away and radioactive coral was polluting the sea.
