Topic: Recommendations for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Country: Israel
Delegate Name: Zach Brodkey
School: Forest Hills Central High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Israel position papers GLIMUN 2014 committees
Since the ratification of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in 1970, many nations have decided to not build up, or furthermore, to disarm themselves of nuclear weapons as signatories to the treaty. However, many nations such as ourselves feel as though there are many countries in the world who should not necessarily be lessening their nuclear arsenal, and that there is a need for some nations to maintain a nuclear weaponry stockpile as a dissident to the nations who oppose the rights of the world to be policing powers who maintain overall safety through being trustworthy. Today, there are many nations who are non-signatories because they do not want to cooperate with the civilized world, and are enemies to it, and who are not trustworthy enough to be allowed to start nuclear programs. Therefore, if this is an inevitable truth in today’s world, there should be a number of nations who maintain a strong arsenal to combat this threat that currently exists and is proliferating in countries like Iran and North Korea. If all of the free world countries, or even most of the countries in the entire world, are to be signatories to this treaty, there must be room left over for nuclear powers to balance the bad intentions that exist in nations that will never sign the treaty.
In an idealistic world, nuclear weapons would not be a problem at all: no country would have them in the first place, everyone would be trustworthy and transparent, and there would be no need for any nuclear powers to keep the other countries in check. An ideal nation would only possess nuclear energy capabilities, not weaponry. However, this is not the world we live in. There must be nuclear powers to control the threat’s spread, and to be the lone owners of that responsibility. Since our region is extremely hostile and unstable, we see the need for this balance every day.
Considering all of this, we suggest that amendments be made to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty that allow for nuclear powers to remain in the world, and that each country that wishes to become a nuclear power must be extensively proven to be trustworthy, and strategically important to maintain those weapons. With this, Israel would feel comfortable becoming a signatory. On the other hand, we believe that the treaty must call for more strict investigations on other countries who express outward distaste for the free world, and countries who are non-signatories due to their wishes of keeping up secretive nuclear programs.
We fully expect the vast majority of the world to cooperate with this plan, or any other plan that is put forth along the boundaries of keeping nuclear weapons out of countries that are universally agreed to be untrustworthy. We believe; however, that many countries will reject the idea for reasons including the idea that no governing body or nation should be allowed to decide who should be and who should not be allowed to build nuclear programs, or they believe that no nations should have nuclear weapons at all. We believe countries such as Iran, Syria, North Korea, and others will reject our ideas.
