General Assembly Resolution #330 “Nuclear Testing Protocol” (Category: International Security; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Concerned that GA#330, while harboring constructive intentions, contains several critical ambiguities, contradictions, and flaws which undermine its overall efficacy in regulating nuclear testing;
Absolutely repulsed by the absurd demand that “all information and materials related to nuclear testing” must be classified as state secrets, as it effectively prohibits the dissemination of any such material for informational and educational purposes including museum exhibits and school curricula, and may pose an insurmountable obstacle to reconciliation with communities affected by irresponsible nuclear testing;
Considering such a mandate to be a blatant violation of the sovereignty of World Assembly members, trusting that it is within their interests to follow a reasonable and secure policy regarding such information without requiring WA intervention;
Alarmed that several key definitions fail to provide specific, quantifiable standards with which to assess compliance for this resolution, including:
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Clause 1’s “lead to the excessive harmful contamination” giving no concrete indication of how much harmful contamination is “excessive”;
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Clause 4’s “high probability of creating artificial radiation belts around a planetary body” not specifying the magnitude of such artificial radiation belts or what constitutes a “high probability”, thereby potentially restricting nuclear tests with little to no negative impact;
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Clause 6’s “all necessary security precautions to prevent unauthorized access to nuclear testing sites, materials or confidential data” once again leaving no quantifiable threshold for how many resources must be invested into protecting against a threat which may be realized regardless;
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Clause 8’s “a reasonable probability of producing a nuclear yield” leaving both the probability and yield totally ambiguous seeing that “nuclear yield” may fall well within the yield range of conventional explosives;
Flabbergasted by how trivially member nations can evade compliance with clause 8’s mandates for the World Health Authority (WHA) to be empowered to demand presence at all tests, as the WHA is not required to be authorized to access confidential materials and therefore need not be informed in the first place about nuclear tests;
Hereby repeals GA#330 “Nuclear Testing Protocol”.