A2B2 Disarmament and Politics

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1. Disarmament + Politics WMD, NPT, GA1, and others
2. Before we begin... Previously on our club sessions… We talked about General Assembly and its subsidiary bodies, and GA1, DISEC committee, will be the contre of the discussion for today.
3. What are the 6 subsidiary bodies of GA? What do they do?
4. literally? What does disarmament mean?
5. LO1: To understand DISEC’s issues. LO2: To understand WMD and NPT. LO3: To be able to reach consensus with fellow club members for the very first time. Learning Objectives (LO)
6. Definition: disarmament Disarmament is the act of 1. reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons, and it generally refers to a country’s military or specific type of weaponry. 2. Goal: eliminate all WMDs. + Balanced reduction of conventional weapons
7. why disarmament anyways? Albert Einstein “I do not know with what weapon in WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
8. About NPT (Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons I: Non-proliferation II: Disarmament III: Peaceful Use of nuclear energy Handout
9. WMDs? A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, biological, chemical or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to man-made structures (e.g. buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere.
10. Problem Will NPT do what it was designed for with DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)’s withdrawing? Why or why not? Solution?