{"id":33958,"date":"2018-10-30T15:11:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33958"},"modified":"2018-10-30T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:41:50","slug":"an-unsafe-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/an-unsafe-world\/","title":{"rendered":"An unsafe world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/an-unsafe-world\/article20492698.ece\"><b>An unsafe world<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global instability from proliferation and weaponization may soon become a reality<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How is the nuclear armament threatening to humanity?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s (IAEA) task to balance the benefits of nuclear technology for human development against the irreversible risks to the planet\u2019s survival has been increasing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The world\u2019s nuclear weapon states (NWSs) continue to flout their disarmament obligations with impunity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The possession of the deadly bomb by four other countries, besides the five nations that founded the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), testifies to the impediments to restrict the use of nuclear energy for civilian purposes. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean leader Kim Jong-un\u2019s defiance to expand the country\u2019s weaponization programme is only the latest instance of erosion of the NPT\u2019s authority. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fukushima disaster has brought into sharp focus major concerns over the management of nuclear waste, with potentially dangerous consequences for human civilisation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What was the Fukushima disaster?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the T\u014dhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The issue will pose questions on the merits and sustainability of nuclear technology as a credible source of energy. Governments ought to be more transparent on these matters.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the way ahead?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Against this backdrop, the prospects are remote that the 2017 treaty to legally ban nuclear weapons could win support from the NWS.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the historic 1953 Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower proposed the establishment of the agency to harness nuclear science for peace. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Equally, the emphasis on nuclear science to promote the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals would be subject to the safety frameworks in place.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IAEA member states have evidently been slow to adopt measures to enhance the safety of nuclear material transferred within and across national borders. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material came into force only in 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unsafe world Context Global instability from proliferation and weaponization may soon become a reality How is the nuclear armament threatening to humanity? The International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s (IAEA) task to balance the benefits of nuclear technology for human development against the irreversible risks to the planet\u2019s survival has been increasing The world\u2019s nuclear weapon&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/an-unsafe-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An unsafe world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704890307},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}