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

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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.

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