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Committee 9 Nuclear Proliferation Cuba Gustavo Romero Period: 0 I. A Brief Background: Nuclear proliferation is one the biggest issues in the global community today. Major countries, such as the U.S, China, UK, France, and Russia are some of the countries capable of producing nuclear weapons. The mass rush of producing nuclear proliferation began after a major stun of its capability of destruction during World War II when the United States bombed Japan twice to conclude the end of World War II. After the world had learned of nuclear destruction, countries soon wanted to acquire nuclear arms. Shortly after the end of World War II, Russia became the second nation to mass produce nuclear arms. Knowing Russia was producing large amounts of nuclear arms caused a great discomfort to the United States, which later led to both countries into the Cold War. Both nations gave the instructments to their top nation allies; the U.S. gave their information to France and the U.K., while Russia gave their information to China. On July 1, 1968, the United States, Russia, China, France, and the U.K. and 189 other countries signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (N.P.T.), stating that only five countries are able to hold nuclear arms, but they could only be used for protection. Currently, there are four other nations holding nuclear arms and have not signed the N.P.T., one of which does not have a current nuclear program: North Korea, Pakistan, India, and Israel. II. United Nations Involvement: The United Nations began to be involved with this danger when the United States and Russia decalared war with each other. Fearing that both nations would destroy one another, the United Nations proposed a treaty for the United States, Russia, France, China, and the UK to sign. The treaty was later titled the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The treaty is not only for the five countries, it was for all the nations who would eventually posses nuclear arms, but for the moment, only these five countries are allowed to have nuclear arms. The treaty has three parts to it: first part, only the Big 5 are allowed to have nuclear weapons, second part, the nuclear weapons are not to be used as threats to other countries, and finally, the nuclear energy they poses is to be used in peace. III. Country Policy and Involvement: Our country, Cuba, strongly believes in the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Cuba would like to enforce the N.P.T. on the international scale. We are planning to ratify a similar treaty as the N.P.T, called the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and enforce it in Latin America and the Carribean. Our country once possesed dangerous nuclear arms in the early 1960s. We called it the "October Crisis", but the Americans refer it to the "Cuban Missles Crisis". We just feared that the United States of America would attack us, breaking the second part of the N.P.T. Russia them imported nuclear arms on our country. Many may say that we were deeply involved with the Russians, but we just feared of an attack, and decided to arm ourselves. But unlike the Americans, we withdrew the missles. IV. Solutions Pakistan, India, Israel, and maybe Iran and North Korea, must be inspected for nuclear arms. The N.P.T. must be enforced worldwide. We don't believe the United States should hold nuclear arms. They have threatned them to us, they have tried to kill our president, and have tried to invade our country; overall, we believe the United States are not responsible enough. Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_proliferation