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castle-romeo-test.jpgToday there are nearly 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world (over 7,500 of which are operational, the rest stockpiled). The majority are buy kamagra online held by the United States and Russia. Other countries: the UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and possibly North Korea, are also nuclear-armed. Many of the nuclear weapons held around the world have hundreds of times more explosive power than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 which completely destroyed the buy kamagra online city and killed around 140,000 people.

Nuclear weapons have buy kamagra online no legitimate purpose; nor would their use be legal (civilian casualties are unavoidable), they are buy kamagra online also genocidal and utterly immoral. When confronted with any of today's real security threats nuclear weapons are irrelevant: they cannot address climate change, poverty, hunger, overpopulation, non-state armed groups or terrorists, and they are useless against pandemics such as AIDS or avian flu.

Not only do nuclear weapons kill indiscriminately but the buy kamagra online radioactive fallout from their detonation means that their effects know no buy kamagra online geographical boundaries. Immediate survivors in the vicinity of any nuclear exchange face devastating long-term ill effects or death. Recent research shows that even a so-called ‘small exchange’ of 50 nuclear weapons could cause ‘the largest climate change in recorded human history’ and buy kamagra online potentially could kill more people than were killed in the whole of the Second World War.

As long as there are buy kamagra online nuclear weapons in the world there is always the danger they will be used, whether by accident or intention.

In the minority

The desire for buy kamagra online global abolition of nuclear weapons is strong internationally. Many countries have signed treaties to make large areas of the world into nuclear weapons free zones.These cover Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the South Pacific, Latin America and Africa; 180 non-nuclear weapon states have signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - they don’t possess nuclear weapons and buy kamagra online their safety does not depend on owning them. The UK is buy kamagra online one of only a handful of states that has nuclear weapons.

Our choice to buy kamagra online re-arm, instead of disarming, through the decision to replace our current Trident nuclear weapons system, is a signal to the rest of the world that we believe our security depends on weapons of mass destruction. But the same argument could be used by any country in the world. It is not impossible that buy kamagra online the UK should decide to rid itself of nuclear weapons as required by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Four countries — South Africa, Belarus, Kazakhstan and buy kamagra online Ukraine have already done so. In so doing, we would be complying with our obligations to disarm under the NPT, contributing to progress towards multilateral disarmament, and helping to create a climate where states turn away from nuclear weapons altogether.

Multilateral disarmament


CND calls for buy kamagra online multilateral disarmament initiatives, to go hand in hand with British nuclear disarmament, to ensure that the goal of worlwide abolition can be achieved. This call has found a resonance internationally. Leading international figures like Kofi Annan, Hans Blix and Mohammed ElBaradei, have all urged serious attention to nuclear disarmament. Now they have buy kamagra online been joined by former senior US politicians Henry Kissinger and George Schulz and others, have recently called for steps to be taken towards this goal.

ICAN

ican-logo.gifCND is buy kamagra online working with Medact and other peace organisations in the UK to promote the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ICAN was launched by medical professionals in 60 countries, to buy kamagra online promote a Nuclear Weapons Convention . Landmines and buy kamagra online chemical and biological weapons have already been outlawed through treaties. Nuclear weapons can be similarly abolished through a Nuclear Weapons Convention, a draft of which is already lodged at the UN.

The hypocritical claim that buy kamagra online nuclear weapons are valuable instruments in some hands, but intolerable threats when owned by others, must be abandoned. CND urges the government to support the proposed Nuclear Weapons Convention as a practical way of meeting the disarmament goals of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

 
  • Read Bruce Kent's recent speech on the Nuclear Weapons Convention and the ICAN campaign.
  • Former senior US politicians, Henry Kissinger, George Schulz, William Perry and buy kamagra online Sam Nunn call for a nuclear weapons free world. Read more
    A year later Kissinger et al renew their call. Read more
  • Over 50 MPs signed a Commons motion in support of the Global Summit for a Nuclear Weapon Free World, hosted by CND to mark its 50th anniversary in February.
    The Summit was opened by London Mayor Ken Livingstone and buy kamagra online was one of the most significant international conferences on nuclear disarmament since the buy kamagra online end of the Cold War. Speakers included Sergio Duarte, the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and President Clinton’s nuclear advisor Thomas Graham, now working with Henry Kissinger to promote new disarmament talks. CND welcomed campaigners from buy kamagra online across the world, from Israel, Indian, Pakistan, the US, France, China and elsewhere. The Summit also heard from a survivor from the Hiroshima atom bomb. Read more