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1 Torbjorn Graff Hugo, On Builders and Blockers: States Have Different Roles to Play to Complete the Nuclear Disarmament Puzzle 1 (2015)

handle is hein.unl/onbuild0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LPN I According to a 2014 NPT working paper submit- ted by a group of mainly nuclear umbrella states (states that are not nuclear-weapon- states per se, but which in practice depend on nuclear weap- ons through military alliance arrangements with nuclear-weapon- states), 'a focus on building blocks can complement the pursuit of a step by step approach' to nuclear disarmament.' Grant- ed, it is not entirely clear how this complementa- tion would take place, especially since the actual building blocks listed in the working paper seem synonymous with the 'steps' commonly regarded as included in the step-by-step approach. This includes, e.g., the negotiation of a fissile material treaty, entry-into-force of the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), legally binding security assurances, a return to substantive work in the Conference on Disarmament (CD), and strength- ening the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear safeguards system. Nevertheless, the building block approach is not without added value. This is partly because the new metaphor is more relaxed in terms of se- quencing than the original (at least rhetorically speaking), but mainly because the working paper I

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