Providing security assurances for non-nuclear weapon states

There is an increasingly urgent need to assure non-nuclear member states effective international security arrangements against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons.

It was reported in 1994, that the UN is searching for a common approach or common formula to provide assurance to non-nuclear weapon states against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons.

In the 1960s, the spread of nuclear weapons was largely checked by U.S. security guarantees, notably to its NATO allies: the famous "nuclear umbrella". The U.S. has already given defense guarantees to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, and as soon as it has them, it will deploy theater missile defenses to protect its troops stationed in Japan and South Korea. Those defenses will also cover the host nations' territories.

1. Providing
2. Protecting against vulnerability
3. Negotiating convention for the elimination of nuclear weapons
4. Preventing nuclear proliferation

1. Providing security for nuclear weapon states
2. Preventing movement of weapons-usable nuclear materials to non-nuclear states
3. Banning nuclear testing

1. Stabilizing
2. Negotiating convention for the elimination of nuclear weapons

1. Stockpiling nuclear material
2. Satisfying needs
3. Providing legal framework for use of nuclear power
4. Protecting nuclear power plants
5. Preventing an arms race in outer space
6. Establishing nuclear-free zone
7. Controlling availability of arms
8. Continuing role of the USA for global stability

1. Proliferating strategic nuclear arms

1. Insecurity and vulnerability of non-nuclear weapon states
2. Failure of disarmament and arms control efforts