We will continue to advocate for
general and complete disarmament under effective international controls.
commitment to
general and complete disarmament. It's about time that we have an A.C.D.A., backed by an active peace movement, that seeks to make good on these promises.
Reaffirmation that the ultimate objective of the efforts of States in the disarmament process is
general and complete disarmament under effective international control.
The world's five major nuclear-weapon states Monday declared their "unequivocal" commitment to the goals of eliminating all nuclear weapons and the ideals of a
general and complete disarmament.
The treaty's preamble also reminds us that our ultimate goal is
general and complete disarmament, as promised in the United Nations Charter: That the incalculable destructive power of nuclear weapons has made it imperative that the legal prohibition of war should be strictly observed in practice if the survival of civilization and of mankind itself is to be assured.
THE NEW AMERICAN has frequently described the origins and significance of State Department Document 7277, entitled Freedom From War: The United States Program for
General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World.
The pursuit of "
general and complete disarmament" -- also an obligation that states have undertaken in the Non-Proliferation Treaty -- receives insufficient attention.
General and complete disarmament: follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995 and 2000 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,
They are methodically following a blueprint outlined in the 1961 State Department document Freedom From War: The United States Program for
General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World.
Paragraph 143f (i) commits governments to "Work actively towards
general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control."
By holding to a bottom-line position on "total elimination," NAC obtained a significant advance when the NWS dropped the word "ultimate" in qualifying nuclear disarmament and agreed for the first time to de-link nuclear disarmament from
general and complete disarmament. Though giving up a time period for negotiations, NAC obtained a clear-cut commitment from the NWS that "systematic and progressive efforts to implement Article VI" would include:
The plan was outlined in detail in a State Department document entitled Freedom From War." The United States Program for
General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World.