Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World

by Rotblat, Joseph; Konuma, Michiji

• ISBN13: 9789810231798
• ISBN10: 9810231792
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Members of the Conference: Participants, Students	1	(16)
Programme of the Conference	17	(4)
Working Group topics and sub-topics	21	(2)
Members of Working Groups	23	(6)
I. Statements and Reports from the Conference	29	(50)
The Hiroshima Declaration	29	(1)
Statement of the Pugwash Council	30	(11)
Report on Working Group 1 Agenda for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World	41	(10)
Report on Working Group 2 Reducing Proliferation Risks	51	(3)
Report on Working Group 3 Monitoring, Controlling and Reducing Arms Trade, Transfer and Production	54	(4)
Report on Working Group 4 Global Governance	58	(5)
Report on Working Group 5 Security in the Asia Pacific Region	63	(7)
Report on Working Group 6 Energy-Environment-Development Interactions	70	(9)
II. Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions	79	(156)
Proceedings of the First Plenary Session	79	(1)
Formal Opening of the Conference	79	(2)
Part A	81	(24)
Opening Address: Professor Michiji Konuma	81	(1)
Welcoming Address: Mr Takashi Hiraoka	82	(1)
Messages of Greeting	83	(9)
Response from Professor Francesco Calogero	92	(2)
Memorial to Past Presidents of Pugwash - Professors Hannes Alfven and Dorothy Hodgkin by Professor Joseph Rotblat, Mr Jan Prawitz and Dr Sebastian Pease	94	(8)
Tributes to deceased Pugwashites by Dr Martin Kaplan	102	(3)
Part B The 50th Anniversary of the Hiroshima Bomb.	105	(130)
The 50th Anniversary of the Hiroshima	105	(5)
Professor Joseph Rotblat
Some Thoughts on Hiroshima-50 Years After The Bomb	110	(4)
Mr Shuichi Kato
Statement by Mr Harada, Director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum	114	(1)
Proceedings of the Second Plenary Session	115	(18)
Secretary-General's Report: Professor Francesco Calogero	116	(17)
Proceedings of a Public Meeting Dialogue Between Pugwash and Citizens of Hiroshima: Looking Towards the Future	133	(38)
Proceedings of the Third Plenary Session	171	(1)
A: The 50th Anniversary of the United Nations	172	(9)
The 50th Anniversary of the United Nations	172	(3)
Dr Roeslan Abdulgani
Fifty Years of the United Nations	175	(6)
Professor M G K Menon
B: Towards A More Equitable World	181	(8)
Towards a More Equitable World	181	(4)
Mr Gothom Arya
The Roots of Inequity	185	(4)
Professor Ana Maria Cetto
Proceedings of the Fourth Plenary Session	189	(1)
Effects of Nuclear Weapons	189	(21)
Why the USA Dropped Atomic Bombs on Japanese Cities	190	(6)
Professor Barton Bernstein
The Effects of Atomic Bombs - Hiroshima and Nagasaki	196	(14)
Professor Soichi Iijima
Proceedings of the Fifth Plenary Session Reports on Working Groups	210	(1)
Proceedings of the Closing Plenary Session	211	(1)
The 40th Anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto	212	(23)
Reflections on the Social Responsibility of Scientists: Before and After the Russell-Einstein Manifesto	212	(4)
Professor Toshiyuki Toyoda
Thinking about Science and World Affairs in a New Way: Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto	216	(4)
Professor John Holdren
An African Appreciation of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto	220	(2)
Professor Nola Dippenaar
The Relevance of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto to Young People	222	(3)
Mr Tom Milne
Closing Address by Professor Joseph Rotblat Reminiscences on the 40th Anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto	225	(10)
III. Papers Submitted to the Conference	235	(592)
Part I Agenda for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World	235	(110)
Mitsuo Okamoto
Enola Gay and the American Conscience: A Reflection on the Smithsonian Debacle	235	(12)
Barton Bernstein
Scientists and the Atomic Bombings of Japan	247	(4)
Maxwell Bruce
The Enigma of Hiroshima	251	(4)
Luis Masperi
Steps to Achieve a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World	255	(2)
Daniel Ellsberg
Manhattan Project II. Abolishing Nuclear Weapons	257	(12)
Hitoshi Ohnishi
Why we must Abolish Nuclear Weapons after the End of the Cold War	269	(1)
Rosalind Reynolds
Stepping Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World	270	(4)
Jean-Pierre Stroot
Nuclear Disarmament or Survival of Nuclear Arms?	274	(4)
Yasuhiro Yamada
The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence: The Lessons of the Cold War	278	(8)
Janne Nolan
Implementation of START and Beyond	286	(6)
Chen Jifeng
No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons and Other Issues	292	(5)
John Holdren
Protection, Control, Accounting and Disposition of Nuclear-Explosive Materials: Recent Developments in the United States and Russia	297	(5)
Annette Schaper
Disposition of the Plutonium from Dismantled Russian Warheads: A Potential German Contribution	302	(8)
Jurgen Scheffran
Elimination of Ballistic Missiles: An Important Step Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World	310	(17)
Hisakazu Fujita
Removing the Relevance of Nuclear Weapons: A Legal Perspective on the UN System	327	(12)
Christophe Swinarski
Nuclear Weapons, International Humanitarian Law, and the International Committee of the Red Cross	339	(6)
Part II Reducing Proliferation Risks	345	(122)
Ryukichi Imai
Fifty Years After Hiroshima	345	(14)
Ei-Ichi Sugie
After Fifty Years of the Nuclear Age: Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons or Elimination of Them?	359	(5)
Thomas Shea
International Controls and the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons	364	(14)
William Epstein
Beyond the NPT: Towards the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons	378	(3)
Vladimir Knapp
A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World and the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy	381	(7)
Luiz Pinguelli Rosa
A New Approach to Linking the NPT to Nuclear Disarmament	388	(3)
Atsuyuki Suzuki
Safeguarding the Non-Proliferation Regime	391	(13)
Paul Guinnessy
Low Cost Nuclear Verfication Technique	404	(1)
Iwao Ogawa
The Indefinite Extension of the NPT and its Aftermaths	405	(7)
Dingli Shen
Survey of Nuclear-Weapon Proliferation Risks Worldwide	412	(6)
Wolfgang Liebert
Managing Proliferation Risks from Civilian and Weapon-Grade Plutonium and Enriched Uranium: A Comprehensive Cut-off Convention	418	(18)
Victor Gilinski
Improving International Inspection and Control of Nuclear Explosive Materials	436	(7)
Johan Swahn
Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Geological Repositories	443	(2)
Jun Tateno
Japan's Plutonium Policy and Nuclear Proliferation	445	(6)
Osamu Yoshida
Does Interdependence Alleviate Proliferation Risks in Asai?	451	(4)
Kari Takamaa
Comments on Non-Proliferation Normative Regulations	455	(3)
Jorma Miettinen
A Loophole in the CTBT?	458	(4)
Paul Guinnessy
Protecting Whistle-blowers: Anonymity on the Internet	462	(5)
Part III Monitoring, Controlling and Reducing Arms Trade, Transfer and Production	467	(86)
Jo Husbands
Reducing Incentives for Arms Transfers: Supply and Demand Side Issues and Ideas	467	(13)
Masako Ikegami-Andersson
Multinationalization of Military R&D: Latent Obstacles to Disarmament - The Case of US-Japan Military R&D Cooperation	480	(16)
Blanche Merz
The Arms Industry - A Female Perspective	496	(2)
Nola Dippenaar
The Future of the South African Arms Industry	498	(4)
Ilmari Susiluoto
Some Political Controversies Concerning the Role of the Russian Military-Industrial Complex	502	(2)
Jean-Paul Hebert
Transparency in Arms Transfers: A Precondition for International Security. Proposals for Expanding the UN Register	504	(9)
Herbert Wulf
The United Nations Register of Conventional Arms as an Instrument of Arms Control	513	(12)
Anselm Skuhra & Michael Merlingen
The Missile Technology Control Regime	525	(12)
Owen Greene & Malcolm Chalmers
The UN Register: Promoting Conventional Arms Transparency	537	(2)
Laura Reed
The Trade in Light Weapons: Towards Banning Anti-Personnel Land-Mines	539	(8)
Martin Kaplan
Blinding Weapons	547	(1)
Martin Kaplan
Monitoring the Development and Production of Chemical and Biological Weapons	548	(5)
Part IV Global Governance	553	(98)
Yoshiro Matsui
Humanitarian Assistance, Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations	553	(22)
Hanna Newcombe
Limits to Peacekeeping	575	(4)
Ivo Slaus
Global Governance - The Culture of Diversity, Tolerance, Justice and Peace	579	(7)
Jeffrey Porten
A Virtual Call to Action: New Media and Global Governance	586	(7)
Klaus Gottstein
Application of Modern Communication Systems to the Solution of Crisis Management and Conflict Problems	593	(4)
Radovan Vukadinovic
The UN and a Regional Security System in South-Eastern Europe	597	(6)
Emanuela di Falco
Local Dynamics in a Global Perspective	603	(3)
Goran von Bonsdorff
The Role of the UN in Conflict Prevention and Resolution	606	(2)
Zdravko Mlinar
From Confrontation to Interpenetration: Territorial Conflicts in Retrospect and in Perspective	608	(12)
Raul Garcia-Barrios
The Mexican Crisis and the Zapatista Rebellion: Lessons for Human Development	620	(10)
Maria Elena Montero Cabrera
The Embargo on Cuba: A Threat to Global Governance	630	(1)
Saiful Islam
Education, Cultural Identity and Global Cooperation	631	(3)
Ivan Supek
Vladimir Knapp
Relevance of Ex-Yugoslavia Problems to Nuclear Disarmament Prospects	634	(6)
Eghosa Osagie
Global Trade and Financial Institutions: New Criteria for Trade and for Funding Economic Development	640	(6)
Martin Ramirez
Psychobiological Control of Hostility	646	(5)
Part V Security in the Asia Pacific Region	651	(76)
Jan Prawitz
The Concept of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones, with Special Reference to East Asia	651	(19)
Eiji Yamada
Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones in the Asia Pacific	670	(2)
Mark Byung-Moon Suh
Security Environment and Nuclear Proliferation Problems	672	(13)
Parangtopo Sutokusumo
Nuclear Weapons and the Developing Nations	685	(2)
Ayesha Siddiqa
The Future of Nuclear Non-Proliferation in South Asia	687	(10)
Keiji Nakatsuji
China and the Post-Cold War Nuclear World	697	(4)
Philippe Regnier
Geopolitics and Security in Post-Cold War South-East Asia	701	(6)
Kimikazu Shigemasa
Twenty Years after Vietnam: Asia-Pacific Institution Building	707	(7)
Shu Yuan Hsieh
An Arms Race is Coming to the Asia-Pacific Region	714	(1)
Hiromichi Umebayashi
Regional Confidence-Building by Means of Disarmament and Democracy: Review of the First ASEAN Regional Forum	715	(5)
Pan Zhenqiang
Creating Regional Confidence Measures and a Security Forum	720	(7)
Part VI Energy-Environment-Development Interactions	727	(100)
Omar Masera
Renewable Energy Sources for Sustainable Development	727	(12)
Eric Ferguson
Negotiating the Abatement of CO(2) Emissions	739	(11)
Peter Gleick
Water and Conflict: Critical Issues	750	(16)
Aharon Zohar
Water-Gate: Water for Peace in the Middle East	766	(4)
Elias Salameh
Water Resources and Conflicts	770	(4)
Malin Falkenmark
Water-Related Eco-Conflicts	774	(11)
Abdullah Sadiq
Water Scarcity: A Source of Conflict or Cooperation	785	(6)
D. L. O. Mendis
Past, Present and Future Conflicts over Water in Sri Lanka	791	(10)
Friedrich Schmahl
Paul Kahle
Cooperation Between Developing and Industrialized Countries in the Battle Against Hunger and Disease	801	(13)
Saiful Islam
Sustainable Energy Use and Food Supply in Bangladesh	814	(4)
Hanna Newcombe
Perinatal Nutrition Rights	818	(1)
Achim Seiler
Biotechnology and Third World Countries: Economic Interests, Technical Options and Socio-Economic Impact	819	(8)
List of Background Papers	827	(2)
Abbreviations and Acronyms	829	(4)
Author Index	833