A ratification by the U.S. Senate of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

A halt by all countries of the production of highly enriched uranium and plutonium. "We should turn off the tap for these materials," Blix said.

A reduction in the number of nuclear weapons. At the height of the Cold War, there were 55,000 weapons; today there are about half as many. 
"It should go down further," Blix said.

A withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Europe that are in the forward position. "It's a relic of the Cold War," Blix said.

Further negotiations - and not military action - with Iran.   
A major World Summit Meeting on nuclear weapons among the critical states, in the next year or two.  This idea was endorsed
later that week by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations.

On October 24, PNA attended the East-West Institute's conference, called Seize the Day, at the UN building in New York.
In summary, at that Conference, Ban Ki-moon endorsed a two-track process for nuclear disarmament,
leading to nuclear weapons elimination.  He endorsed a "binding, global treaty, with verification," as a goal to work towards, and
released an updated version of the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) that PNA's Aguilar had worked on together with

many NGO's from INESAP-- see www.INESAP.org,  LCNP, IALANA, LAWS, and PNND, among others.

 

PNA has immediately moved to endorse and follow up on these excellent developments.  Thus, at the Geneva Seminar on

Steps toward a Nuclear Weapons Convention, we discussed some key steps that can begin, to prepare for national
implementation and verification of an NWC.   The full discussion noted the success of the CWC, or Chemical Weapons Convention,
and proposed that we model much of our verification regime on the work of the CWC and its implementing body, the Organization
for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Aguilar proposed stronger whistle-blower protections, noting that in the case of the
Landmines Treaty and the Biological Weapons Convention,  it has been private citizens who have often provided important information
to guide inspectors on enforcement.

Finally, at Geneva, we noted the establishment of the new Australia-Japan initiaitive, the International Commission on Nuclear Non-
Proliferation and Disarmament.   For more on that new group, which will also help to move public opinion and governments
toward the final goal of nuclear disarmament and elimination, link to www.icnnd.org.

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