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1 Tim Caughley, Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons: Tracing Notions about Catastrophic Humanitarian Consequences 1 (2012)

handle is hein.unl/humimpac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Tracing Notions about Catastrophic Humanitarian Consequences Tim Caughley, UNIDIR Resident Senior Fellow Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons project paper no. 1 The unanimous expression by the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of deep concern at the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons has given new impetus to the cause of nuclear disarmament. This paper examines the notion of catastrophic humanitarian consequences and the origins of similar expressions as orienting concepts in the context of use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in particular. On 28 May 2010, on the final day of the NPT's Eighth Review Conference, NPT states parties adopted Conclusions and recommendations for follow-on actions' including elements on nuclear disarmament, and the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons (see box 1). Extracted from 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, document NPT/CONF.2010/50 (Vol. I)*, 2010. * A I A A

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