CONCLUSION UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL’S CALL TO NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
AC T ION FOR DIS A RM A MENT: 10 T H INGS YOU C A N DO
There are certainly more than Ten Things we can do for disarmament and non-proliferation. This work is not only for young people, but for all people. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon has a five-point proposal that he calls “My Plan to Drop the Bomb”. He wants disarmament to be verifiable, legally binding and re-invigorated by action through the UN Security Council. He is calling on countries to complete the ratification process for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty so that the CTBT can enter into force. The Secretary-General has also emphasized the importance of transparency and accountability in order that those countries with nuclear weapons come clean about the size and location of their arsenals, and finally, that all weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems be destroyed, including limiting missiles and conventional weapons so that other non-nuclear forces do not take away the real peace dividend that disarmament affords. In an effort to drop the bomb, we might not only think about ridding the world of nuclear weapons and ending the
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