9+Thailand

Country: Thailand Topic: Nuclear Proliferation Committee name: 9 Name: Emily Hicks Period: 3 The first encounter with nuclear weapons the world had was in 1945 when the first atomic bomb was tested in the Alamogordo desert in New Mexico by the United States. After World War II and the bombing in H iroshima and Nagaski it was decided that nuclear weapons were something that should definetly not be taken lightly thus was made the "Non-Proliferation Treaty" (NPT) agreeing that the only countries allowed to posses the weapons of mass destruction were the "Big 5" consisting of USA, Russia, China, the UK and France. However, other middle eastern countries (Israel, Pakistan, North Korea, and India) have gotten their hands onto these weapons which prevents them from being a part of the NPT treaty.
 * I.** __**Background**__

Nuclear weapons caused great damage in the past to countries like J apan, which not only harm surrounding life but also the whole environment with all of the gas a dust that is released. Nuclear Enrgy should be saved and used for peaceful purposes and not those of destoying.

The United Nations has involved themselves by creating the NPT so that only the "Big 5" could hold Nuclear weapons, hopefully controling the spread of nuclear weapons. Dispite their efforts other countries in the Middle East have acquired weapons and withdrawn from any treaties, refusing to give up their weapons.
 * II.** __**United Nations Involvement**__

The UN has also created the CTBT (The Conference on Facilitating the Enrty into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty) which negotiates and stives for global disarment.

The Kingdom of Thailand would like to help enforce the stopping of nuclear proliferation. The country itself not possing any nuclear weapons for itself and belives that " The five Nuclear-Weapons States (NWS) have a special obligation to demonstrate their leadership in the effort to bring the CTBT into force." " Thailand firmly belives that a means to achieving lasting internation peace and security is to support the process of arms control and disarment as well as non-proliferation of all types of weapons, especially nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction"
 * III.** __**Country Policy and Involvement**__

Thailand has set up radionuclide monitoring station on the border of __bangkok__ as a part of the IMS. It is highly reccomended highly for other countries to do as well. Groups against the Proliferation could also be created. Thailand could organize and host one of these mettings that would discuss ways to help the preventions of spead.
 * IV. __Solutions__**