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25,000 N-weapons still in existence (1)   19-Jul-08 10:50Tracked by (0)  
Posted by:   zoombusiness on ( 19-Jul-08 10:50 )
Sixty-three years after the US triggered the atomic age by testing the world's first nuclear bomb, an International Atomic Energy Agency report revealed that progress in disarmament has been slow with some 25,000 nukes still in existence, thousands of them in a quick-launch alert.

The report, 'Reinforcing the Global Nuclear Order for Peace and Prosperity: The Role of the IAEA to 2020 and Beyond', has been prepared by an independent commission at the IAEA's request. Among the commission members was former atomic energy commission chairman Rajagopala Chidambaram, architect of India's nuclear weapons tests in 1998. The report regrets that the pace of disarmament has been sluggish four decades after the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) was signed.

The report says that nuclear states point to ongoing reduction in their nuclear stockpiles as evidence that they are fulfilling their NPT obligations. "By contrast, many non-nuclear weapons states see the progress as too slow and believe that the nuclear weapons states are not serious about carrying out their obligations," it says. The reductions that have occurred either have not been verified or have been verified only between the US and Russia, offering limited transparency to the broader international community.

The report says countries with nuclear weapons are pursuing the production of weapons-grade material and increasing their reliance on nukes, designing new weapons and laying plans for maintaining nuclear arsenals indefinitely. At the 2000 NPT review conference, nuclear states had committed to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals. "But few of these steps have yet been implemented," the report says.

It says though the danger of a large-scale nuclear war has greatly decreased, it has not disappeared and these weapons continue to pose an existential threat to civilization. TOI-

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