General Assembly Resolution #10 “Nuclear Arms Possession Act” (Category: International Security; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Understanding the critical role nuclear weapons play as tools of deterrence and national defense,
Lauding GA 10 “Nuclear Arms Possession Act” for securing member nations’ right to possess nuclear weapons at a time when this august body was in its infancy and could have made any number of disastrous mistakes on the subject due to shortsighted political forces,
Recognizing, however, that the main purpose of the target resolution- to protect the right of member nations “to possess nuclear weapons to defend themselves from hostile nations”- is now redundant with a more recent and better written resolution, GA 418 “Safeguarding Nuclear Materials,” thereby removing the main benefit provided by the target and allowing its severe issues to come to the forefront,
Deeply troubled by the target’s ultimate clause, “REQUIRES that any nation choosing to possess nuclear weapons take every available precaution to ensure that their weapons do not fall into the wrong hands,” which:
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does not define or elaborate on the meaning of “the wrong hands,” thereby leaving who or what nations are to secure their weapons against unclear, and
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requires nations to “take every available precaution” regardless of how reasonable, sensible, or otherwise justified a given precaution is,
Comprehending that the above problem areas render compliance with the already redundant target resolution unclear, difficult, and unnecessarily costly through their vagueness and poor wording, and could easily undermine the purpose of the target and even endanger nations by potentially forcing members to implement unreasonable restrictions that harm their ability to access, use, or even maintain or dismantle their own weapons so long as those restrictions act to “ensure” they “do not fall into the wrong hands,”
Adamant that such issues are inexcusable where nuclear weapons and national security are concerned, especially since the survival of the members of this Assembly could very well hinge on the credible threat of rapid nuclear retaliation in certain circumstances, not to mention the ability to efficiently access their weapons for repairs and maintenance,
Noting that even the aforementioned final clause of GA 10 is better covered by GA 418’s fourth clause: “Mandates that member nations take all practical actions to stop unauthorised release of the materials or disclosure of the knowledge spoken of in the above two clauses,”
Clarifying that repealing GA 10 will not leave the right of members to possess nuclear weapons unprotected, nor will it have any significant impact other than eliminating a redundant resolution with several flaws that can prove severely harmful to member nations,
Believing that GA 10 has not failed, but rather has served its purpose and helped allow this body to survive into the future, and to pass a resolution of a higher quality that has rendered GA 10 obsolete, and
Wishing to finally lay one of the most venerable documents produced by this body to a well-deserved rest,
Hereby repeals GA 10 “Nuclear Arms Possession Act.”