DisarmamentChile2THS

Samantha B. Disarmament Period 3

Intercontinental missals, also known as ICBM and they were designed for nuclear bomb delivery and it can deliver one or more nuclear war heads. These bombs have a greater range and greater speed than any other type of bomb. There is also intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM), medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM), and short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM), but as stated before, the ICBM is the most powerful and destructive missiles of all. They have rangers greater then 5,500 km. The missile is used for both land and water. The current countries that posses these bombs are Unites States, Russia , France , China , India , Israel , and North Korea. Now that technology is advancing, so are bombs, they are now more powerful and more precise also meaning they are more destructive.
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the U.N. does not like the fact that there are such weapons that can destroy things for miles, but they so want to eliminate these completely. At the moment, they simply want to reduce the creation and the spread of intercontinental missiles. There are treaties that exist such as S.T.A.R.T., Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Between the Unites States and the USSR. This states that they want to slowly reduce the amount of missiles and to prevent any damage cause by the weapons. There is also the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 1972. It was in force of the next 30 years until the US unilaterally withdrew from it in 2002. At first this treat was rejected but the following proposal of the Sentential and Safeguard decisions on the American ABM systems began in 1969 and in 1972 the agreement had been reached to limiting strategic offensive weapons and each country was allows two sites and which it could base a defensive system. The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972.
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Chile, like most counties, do not believe in the spread of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Chile believes that it is a threat to the world. At the Fifty-sixth General Assembly First Committee 5th Meeting (PM) Chile and many other countries stated that after the attack of September 11, it really opened people’s eyes to issue disarmament. It said that it helped create and opportunity to “explore better ways to build peace.” You could see satisfaction in the United Nations Conference when small arms could be realized only when irreversible progress had been made on the Ottawa Convention. There was a need to the manufacture and trade of landmines. Restrictions protecting life “should take precedence over measures to promote trade.” The Secretary-General’s call for work on the unfinished business of the Ottawa Convention should be needed. Chile was proud to announce that it had presented its certificate of accession. Chile proposes a solution where there will be deals, or treaties made with one another. For example, if both Chile and the US had an ICBM they would both agree to destroy them one by one reducing the populations of ICBM’s. It may be true that one country claims that they have destroyed a bomb, but we do not want it to seem ad if we don’t trust one another. So, like our president Ronald Regan said, “Trust but verify” where we so trust the other country has done what they had promised, but we are going to want some type of evidence they destroyed theirs, and we will show our evidence of destroying ours. I call this TBV, Trust But Verify.
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