Nuclear treaties and their impact on the preservation of the environment

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Abstract

Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous types of weapons on Earth, given the destructive power it engenders, and the magnitude of the immense human suffering it produces. It is the most recent type of weapons of mass destruction compared to biological and chemical weapons, the most deadly of which is living organisms and the environment as a whole. And their effects exceed the time period in which they are used to exceed them for decades without any geographical or political boundaries. Their use, even on a limited scale, may have serious and long-term humanitarian consequences that not only affect humans but also affect their environment, climate, food production and social and economic development. In this spirit, more efforts should have been made to reduce the imminent dangers of nuclear explosions or for the intended use of nuclear weapons and to continue to do so until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated on the planet. And that the nuclear-weapon States and their allies commit themselves to taking further concrete actions to reduce the role and importance of nuclear weapons and to give greater transparency to actions taken to avoid such explosions. And to undertake to accelerate progress in nuclear disarmament and to make further efforts to limit and eventually eliminate all types of nuclear weapons. A number of multilateral treaties have been signed with a view to preventing the proliferation and testing of nuclear weapons, while promoting progress towards nuclear disarmament. These include the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, known as the Partial Test Ban Treaty, and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), signed in 1996 but still in force. The international conferences and international treaties have so far failed to achieve the required balance between the human, scientific, technical and economic aspirations on the one hand, and the preservation of the cleanliness and integrity of the environment and sustainable development on the other. Despite the large number of international agreements concluded and international conferences on protecting the environment from pollution, there is a weakness in the international organization to protect the environment from pollution due to the lack of effectiveness required for the texts and declarations of these conventions and conferences to put serious and real solutions to environmental problems on the ground. In addition to the absence of a specialized international organization to protect the environment from pollution, as well as the absence of an international environmental court to settle international environmental disputes and the failure of the International Court of Justice of the United Nations to effectively resolve these disputes.. هجلت البحث العلوي في اآلداة العذد العشزوى لضٌت 9102 ال