(Proposal) Restricting Future Nuclear Weapons Proliferation

[United Free States of America]

Future Nuclear Proliferation Ban
A resolution to improve world security by limiting further nuclear weapon development.

Category: International Security
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: the United Free States of America

Description:
ACKNOWLEDGING: The fact that only WA members are required to comply with WA resolutions,

NOTICING: The fact that many WA Assembly nations are in the process or have completed development on more accurate and powerful nuclear weapons,

ACKNOWLEDGING: that the WA members need to be able to defend themselves if attacked,

REALIZING: That further development of more powerful and accurate nuclear weapons increases the likelihood of nuclear combat.

1. DECLARES that WA members that currently have stockpiles of nuclear weapons halt development to make their weapons more effective, for example: installing better targeting systems, increasing payload capacity, faster delivery vehicles, etc.

2. PRESERVES the right for individual nations to build and maintain current nuclear stockpiles to maintain mission readiness,

3. REQUIRES WA member nations to allow inspections of their nuclear weapon arsenal by WA inspectors to make sure member nations aren't violating nuclear weapon restrictions.

[Araraukar]

OOC post.

1. DECLARES that WA members that currently have stockpiles of nuclear weapons halt development to make their weapons more effective, for example: installing better targeting systems, increasing payload capacity, faster delivery vehicles, etc.

I can't help but feel that that shouldn't be there, as avoiding massive civilian casualties because of guidance system errors could only be a good thing...

2. PRESERVES the right for individual nations to build and maintain current nuclear stockpiles to maintain mission readiness,

"Build"? How can you build a current nuke stockpile? Aren't you building a future stockpile? And taken with #1, how can you "maintain mission readiness" if you're not occasionally allowed to swap parts for new ones - would you have to make crappy parts the way they were made decades ago to avoid accidentally making them better?

3. REQUIRES WA member nations to allow inspections of their nuclear weapon arsenal by WA inspectors to make sure member nations aren't violating nuclear weapon restrictions.

What restrictions? And how are the inspectors going to know if the software in the targeting system was upgraded, if there's no paper trail to prove it?

Also, you'll have a hard time of getting this past the people whose first reaction will be "keep your hands off of my nukes!"

[Kenmoria]

“The definition of the international security category is: ‘A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.” How does this boost police or military budgets? There is a colourable argument for this category, but I am interested to hear your thoughts on it.

Also, despite the title, I’m not seeing what this does to reduce or restrict the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In fact, it looks more like something that could possibly improve the efficiency of some member nation’s stockpiles.”

[Christian Theocratic States]

You lose my support by prohibiting any form of nuclear advancement, like the guy above me said, it would effectively prevent any attempt to modernize nuclear weapons, even if the changes are meant to reduce civilian fatalities or improve accuracy.

[Aclion]

OOC post.

1. DECLARES that WA members that currently have stockpiles of nuclear weapons halt development to make their weapons more effective, for example: installing better targeting systems, increasing payload capacity, faster delivery vehicles, etc.

I can't help but feel that that shouldn't be there, as avoiding massive civilian casualties because of guidance system errors could only be a good thing...

Forget errors. Accurate guidance systems are the reason saturation bombing isn't a thing anymore.