How could negotiations on abolition start?
Easily, with enough political will. Already there is a detailed draft treaty, a model Nuclear Weapons Convention, lodged with the UN which could be the basis for starting discussions. This would ban all nuclear weapons and it covers all the difficult issues: observation, inspection on demand, verification, control of nuclear material, criminality, and the like. Does that mean that international inspectors might want to have a look at the British bomb factory at Aldermaston or the nuclear submarine base at Faslane in Scotland? Of course. In our global world, threats – AIDS, climate change, shortage of water and energy sources, the danger of war, and especially nuclear war – are all global. Solutions have to be global as well. This country cannot be above the law, even though we tried to be over the Iraq war. Why don’t abolition negotiations start? There are already moves in that direction. But there are still many people who do not realise that to start abolition negotiations is perfect
