Nuclear weapons prohibition

Unlike both the NPT and the BWC, the CWC establishes an implementing secretariat. The international agency for monitoring nuclear weapons non-proliferation obligations is the IAEA. Its counterpart for chemical weapons is the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The OPCW is required ... 

The United Nations Security Council Resolution 687, the so-called cease-fire resolution, inter alia, mandated the destruction of all weapons of mass destruction— chemical, biological, ballistic and nuclear—existing in Iraq. The IAEA was given sole responsibility under this resolution to destroy, remove or render harmless not only nuclear weapons but also any existing capability to acquire them, including prohibited precursor materials such as enriched uranium, plutonium and all facilities, equipment and materials used for their production. 

Special fissionable materials which fall within the definition of nuclear-weapon-usable materials are prohibited. 

Under Article I (Basic Obligations) 1. Each State party undertakes not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion, and to prohibit and prevent any such nuclear explosion at any place under its jurisdiction or control. 2. Each State party undertakes, furthermore, to refrain from causing, encouraging, or in any way participating in the carrying out of any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion. ... 

Following the prohibition of nuclear weapons testing the most important source of radioactive pollution of surface water is the radioactivity of wastes from exploitation and processing of uranium ores. Wastewaters with artificial radionuclides are less dangerous for surface water pollution. 

Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) 1963 117 countries prohibits nuclear weapons tests or any other nuclear explosion in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water. 

Seabed Treaty 1972 94 countries prohibits emplacing nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction on the sea bed and the ocean floor beyond the 12- mile coastal zone. Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) 1974 United States, USSR prohibits underground nuclear tests having a yield exceeding 150 kilotons. South Pacific Nuclear Free-Zone Treaty (Treaty of Rarotonga) 1985 15 countries prohibits testing, deployment, or acquisition of nuclear weapons in the South Pacific. 

Resolution 1540 labels, inter alia, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and their means of delivery, as well as illicit trafficking in nnclear weapons, their means of delivery and related materials, as a threat to international peace and security. Adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, Resolution 1540 is binding on all Member States of the UN. Pursuant to the resolution. Member States are obliged to adopt and enforce laws prohibiting non-State actors from developing. 

SEABED TREATY. The Seabed Treaty prohibits the implanting on the ocean floor or subsoil of any nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) beyond a 12-mile coastal zone. The treaty also prohibits the emplacement of structures, launching installations or any other facihties specifically designed for storing, testing or using such weapons. It entered into force on 18 May 1972 and is open to universal membership. Its full title is the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Seabed and the Ocean Hoor and in the Subsoil Thereof. 

Orbital Bomb. A satellite contg a nuclear warhead which circles the earth in a low orbit and which can be commanded to descend on a particular target. No such weapons are now known to be operational, and their deployment would be prohibited under the terms of the Outer Space Treaty of 1966. However, this treaty does not prohibit anything making less than a full circle around the earth, hence the FOBS... 

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