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1 Nick Ritchie, The Humanitarian Initiative in 2015: Expectations are Building for the Need for Nuclear Disarmament Progress 1 (2015)

handle is hein.unl/hmtint0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LPI UNIDIR Introduction Nuclear weapons are the most destructive tech- nology ever created. A conflict fought using nuclear weapons today would cause inescapable and unacceptable devastation and human suf- fering. Nuclear weapons represent a magnitude of destruction that is very difficult to imagine; a scale of violence that most people struggle to ra- tionalize. In 1968 the international community negotiated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and kick-start the process of nuclear disarmament. The NPT's starting point is 'the devastation that would be visited upon all mankind by a nuclear war and the consequent need to make every effort to avert the danger of such a war'.4 During the Cold War the United States and Soviet Union made pro- gress in slowing the nuclear arms race, and after it ended a significant opportunity emerged to rethink the role of nuclear weapons in interna- tional politics. The NPT's five nuclear-weapon states (China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States) commit- ted themselves to: Dr Nick Ritchie is a Lecturer in International Security at the University of York, and an advisor to UNIDIR's project on the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons. I

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