FORUM: First Committee - Disarmament and International Security

QUESTION OF: Working Towards Nuclear Weapon Disarmament on a Global Scale

The General Assembly,

Affirming that the P5 nations, Israel, India, Pakistan and the DPRK are in possession of nuclear
arms,

Noting with deep concern the total amount of 14,900 atomic weapons that are currently possessed
by nuclear weapon states and the fact that the United States and Russia account for 93 percent of
said nuclear weapons and the dangers they represent to the entire world,

Recognizes the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) which was opened for
signature in 1968 which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and promotes non-
proliferation,

Alarmed by the fact that India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and South Sudan have yet to sign the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,

Aware of the fact that Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan are
already part of a nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) in Central Asia since March 21st 2009 after
signing of the "Central Asia Nuclear free weapon zone treaty" (CANWFZ);

Noting that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has constantly violated the
international measures on nuclear testing by conducting missile tests in 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016,
and most recently, 2017,

Stressing that 1.6% of all cancers among those residents of the Marshall Islands alive between
1948-1970 might be attributable to radiation exposures resulting from nuclear testing fallout;

1. Urges all member states to abide by previously made treaties that work towards nuclear
disarmament, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty,
the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention, or to become party
to these treaties if they have not yet done so;

2. Calls upon the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) to create the
Uranium-Plutonium Limitation Treaty (UPLT), which will have the following specifications;
a. The UPLT will be a legally binding treaty that would limit the amount of uranium a
nation can possess to 30 pounds of uranium-235 and 8 pounds of plutonium-239 for the
production and maintenance of nuclear weapons,
b. The UPLT will introduce a Nuclear-Weapon-Possessing-States taxes that will serve as a
fine to be paid by the nations possessing nuclear weapons - this price will be proportional to the
number of nuclear weapons held,
c. The treaty will be open for signature in Geneva within the next five years;

3. Proposes the addition of a timeline regarding the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons (NPT) to encourage nuclear disarmament programs that the treaty already outlines;
a. Amendments will be added to the NPT in 2020 when the NPT Review Conference is held
in order to create an agenda,
b. Nuclear-Weapon-Possessor-States will be asked to decrease their nuclear weapon
arsenals by 6% each year while the P5 nations are to reduce them by 9% each year thus causing a
consistent decline in nuclear warheads and terminating the stalling of nuclear disarmament;
 4. Requests the creation of an Agency to Enforce the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons (AENPT) which will be overseen by the UNODA, responsible for:
a. The investigation of nation’s nuclear weapon stockpiles,
b. Monitoring the amount that Nuclear-Weapon-Possessor-States decrease their nuclear
weapons yearly and where nuclear waste is deposited,
c. Investigating what entities possess nuclear weapons regardless of their affiliation with the
NPT,
d. Forbidding non-signatory states of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons to participate in any convention on nuclear disarmament until they signed the Treaty;

5. Further proclaims that the AENPT create an online database containing all data that is collected
concerning nuclear weapons in order to increase international pressure on nations to disclose their
nuclear weapon information and begin decreasing the amount of nuclear weapons they possess, as
this puts nations under more scrutiny by other member states, the public, and organizations
working towards nuclear weapon disarmament, such as the International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons (ICAN);

6. Emphasizes the importance of increasing awareness and the understanding of the wide range of
humanitarian consequences that would result from any nuclear detonation by means such as but
no limited to:
a. raising awareness by displaying the effects that nuclear weapons have on the environment
and the people who inhabit said environment through media advertisements,
b. Engaging young people and passing on knowledge to future generations by means such
as
i.promoting of youth communicators and student peace ambassadors
ii.Including international humanitarian law, as part of school and university curriculum, with the
objective of fostering critical thinking skills among youth;
iii.Requiring both public and private schools to make learning about the devastating consequences
of past nuclear tests through the curriculum in order to raise awareness within the younger
generations,
c. Creating the Continental Denuclearization Group (CDG) that work within a more
specific area, such as continents to ensure that nuclear disarmament is being conducted within the
NPT and other agreed treaties which will be supervised by the AENPT;

7. Recommends all member nations to disclose information regarding their nuclear arsenal and
comply to regular inspections to ensure all safety precautions are taken responsibly and no new
activity is occurring on land to prevent done through the means of but not limited to:
a. All countries that possess nuclear weapons comply and have designated inspectors
granted access to attend to their duties randomly and monthly,
b. Investigations by the UNODA on all nations that possess nuclear arms, with either
disclosed or undisclosed locations, in order to ensure that member states remain honest about the
amount of weapons that they obtain and that proliferation is not occurring with extensive reports
completed on each inspection to sufficiently monitor the nuclear facilities;

8. Suggests the conversion of nuclear weapons into a fuel source of nuclear power by means such
as but not limited to down-bending the highly enriched uranium with natural uranium to create
low enrichment uranium, usable in nuclear reactors;

9. Further suggests that nuclear powers actively engage with other states on this issue at the
Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, the world’s single multilateral disarmament negotiating
forum. The world would also welcome a resumption of bilateral negotiations between the United
States and Russian Federation aimed at deep and verifiable reductions of their respective arsenals;

10. Advocates the establishment of a zone free of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in regions
such as but not limited to The Middle East, North America, South America, Central American, by
means such as but not limited to:
a. A regional negotiation process between states,
b. States surrender their nuclear weapons to a UN contractor to be disposed or dismantled;

11. Calls for the end of worldwide production of nuclear weapons in order to to increase the rate
of disarmament and decrease the innovations in this direction;

12. Decides to stay actively seized on the matter.