But elimination will only happen if all countries - nuclear and non-nuclear states - genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals, as was indicated by the unanimous opinion of the international Court of Justice, the highest international tribunal. The five nuclear states seem to expect others to refrain from obtaining bombs while at the same time maintaining their own caches of deadly weapons.
The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.
The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.
Alistair Maclean
George W. Dunaway
Paul Pierce
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Henri Pirenne
Peter Straub
Meg Waite Clayton
Michael Hussey
Shaun Donovan
Charles Galton Darwin
Enson Inoue
Susan Andersen