03 March 2011
Clinton Urges Negotiators to Adopt Nuclear Materials Treaty
Washington — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for the Conference on Disarmament to move ahead quickly on a proposed treaty that would ban the production of nuclear-weapons-usable fissile materials.
“Halting production is in the interest of every country, and I urge this conference to end the stalemate and open negotiations on a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty without further delay,” Clinton said in a speech before the 65-nation, Geneva-based conference February 28.
“The United States is deeply committed to reducing nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear proliferation. Our long-term goal, our vision, is a world without nuclear weapons,” Clinton said.
President Obama announced during a speech in Prague April 5, 2009, that he would work to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Since then the United States has redefined its use of nuclear weapons in its national defense; convened a 47-nation Nuclear Security Summit in Washington and agreed to lock down vulnerable nuclear materials over a four-year period; ratified the U.S.-Russia arms cut treaty (New START) to reduce nuclear arsenals to their lowest levels since the 1950s; and joined with other member nations in the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty to strengthen one of the world’s oldest nonproliferation initiatives.
“We should continue to advance nuclear security by turning now to the negotiation of a verifiable ban on fissile-material production for bombs,” Clinton said.
The fissile material treaty was first proposed in 1993 by then-President Bill Clinton in an address to the U.N. General Assembly. According to the Federation of American Scientists, the treaty “would strengthen nuclear nonproliferation norms by adding a binding international commitment to existing constraints on nuclear-weapons-usable fissile material.”
Fissile materials used in nuclear bomb production include highly enriched uranium and plutonium. The proposed treaty, which has been under discussion at the Conference on Disarmament, would prohibit further production of these materials for nuclear weapons and other explosive devices.
A concern of the United States and most other nations is that nuclear bomb-making materials could fall into the hands of terrorist groups or extremists, threatening regional and global security.
“If we are serious about reducing the possibility that fissile material could fall into terrorists’ hands, then we must reduce the amount of such material that is available,” Clinton told the delegates. “For that reason, the United States also supports reducing stocks of separated plutonium and highly enriched uranium and minimizing the future use of highly enriched uranium for civilian purposes.”
Clinton said the United States and Russia have made significant progress toward those goals, and will continue to make them a focus of U.S. nuclear diplomacy.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon encouraged the conference on February 24 to “move ahead vigorously” on the fissile material treaty or risk slipping into irrelevance. Work has been stalled at the conference on the treaty because of objections by one or more nations over terms contained in the treaty.
The 65-member Conference on Disarmament was established in 1979 to focus on the cessation of the nuclear arms race and promote nuclear weapons disarmament, prevention of nuclear war, and the prevention of a nuclear arms race in space.
(This is a product of the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://www.america.gov)
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Ban, reduce, goals, reducing nuclear weapons, redefined, constraints, cessation (pause): are all words that drips with control of the Pacific and the peoples ancestral lands at all cost. Why? In order to do this guarantee to the promise lands of the US one needs to dump their arsenal. Now the question become where? The Pacific is the choice of the US Government.
The US has already dropped Atomic material on the people of Marshal Islands and their waterways. And too, they already have dumped their arsenal during the 5o's off of Maili Beach. The results are already in that the U235, U238, U233, and U234 from Germany have returned to its organic state off of Maili Beach according to a Chemist from University of Hawaii at Manoa. They believe in Bunnies laying jelly beans too! This is all too crazy, however, Tropical Ag--have rallied the troops. The Waianae and Nanakuli Neighborhood Board, Fishermen, Truckers are all backing the Native Hawaiian Veterans, LLC in believing that these fission materials is safe, weak, and low.
One has no understanding as to why we let the US military and their Native Hawaiian Covenant crew members pollute our nearby limu beds on the Waianae Coast specifically Maili beach with fissile material that are used in nuclear bomb production. These already exist in our off shore beaches along the entire coast of Waianae. Just, 233 acres will be cleared of the visible arsenal according to the Tad Davis of the Pentagon. The rest will remain as construction debris that will continue to enter the biota as it has done since the military placed it in the offshore areas after WWII.
Henri Fermi and HB 1627 seem to have the same mentality! It’s inconceivable for the goodness of the country we poison native Hawaiian people and their ancestral land. But, for politicians that's the righteous thing to do. The US military will have Martial Law all of Hawaii just as they did recently in Waianae with the blessings of the Native Hawaiian Covenant and the Native Hawaiian Veterans, LLC.
Passing the HB 1627 without the bloodquantum will make the terms of the "Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty" open to ocean dumping of nuclear waste which is the reason for stalling. President Bill Clinton during his time were convinced by a bunch of idiot scientist like Jacques Cousteau, and his fellow countrymen, that did nuclear testing in Tahiti that the ocean can remedy the problem of Nuclear Testing. Now his son is worried about the garbage in the Pacific Ocean plankton. Do children grow up to do better than their parents?