Chapter IV: The Treaty of London

The old days of the month. The London Conference is over. Dozens of countries, including the Republic, the United States, and Russia, have signed the "London Treaty on Comprehensive Nuclear Disarmament" and the "Agreement on the International Control of Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Materials," and the total re-destruction of nuclear weapons has officially entered the implementation stage.

In accordance with the provisions of the Treaty of London, the date of entry into force of the treaty is the last date of entry into force of the treaty. That is, until this date, only the treaty has been ratified by the legislatures of all the signatory countries. If the treaty is vetoed in the legislature of any of the signatory countries, the treaty will be formally null and void. Although this condition is extremely demanding, after all, it is not easy to obtain the approval of the legislatures of many countries, but it also fundamentally guarantees that the future of human civilization is determined by all mankind, not by a few major powers.

Arguably, this is where the biggest problem with the London Treaty lies.

Due to the constraints of the form of decoration, the Treaty of London was almost non-binding. Although at the negotiation stage. Both the Republic and the United States proposed that the Treaty of London should be properly binding, but there was firm opposition from Russia, France, and other countries. That proposal did not receive support.

At a press briefing held in the afternoon of the previous day, Yuan Qing, the head of the Republic, and US President Brandino spoke in unison to the news media. The Treaty of London is a major treaty that has a bearing on the direction of the development of human civilization, a treaty that has a bearing on the future destiny of the world's eight judges, and a treaty that must be earnestly implemented and implemented. The implication is that the Republic and the United States are likely to take practical action at the stage of the signing of the Treaty of London. Sanctions have been imposed on certain countries that are deliberately causing trouble.

There is no doubt that Wang Yuanqing and Blandino's words shocked the world.

You know, this is the first time that the Republic and the United States have spoken in the same voice!

Although in the eyes of some Western news media, only Wang Yuanqing's threat has weight, because Wang Yuanqing can represent the national will of the Republic to a large extent, Bran's threat has little weight. This is because it is not the president but the Congress that determines the major policies of the United States, but the top leaders of the two major powers have made statements at the same time, hinting that they will take decisive action to promote the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.

Later that day, the speakers of the US Senate and House of Representatives and several party leaders said in an interview with reporters that as long as the "London Treaty" could protect the interests of US citizens to the greatest extent. They will vote in favour of the vote. The words of these heavyweights in the U.S. Congress immediately raised the value of Blandino's statement in London, and convinced the world that Blandino was at the peak of his career in office, and that the U.S. Congress would not work against the president.

Wang Yuanqing and Branbennot's performances brought the London Conference to a close to a successful conclusion.

Going back to the substance of the London Treaty, apart from the issue of the signing stage. The Treaty imposes extremely strict restrictions on the possession, development and dismantling of nuclear weapons and related technologies and products in all aspects, and sets a clear timetable for the phased and complete destruction of nuclear weapons and the dismantling of related facilities.

However, it is no exaggeration to say that this is the most detailed and severe global arms control treaty ever written by mankind.

Undoubtedly, the focus will be on how to achieve the complete and complete elimination of nuclear weapons and the dismantling of related facilities in a phased manner.

In accordance with the provisions of the treaty, the entire destruction and dismantling process is divided into three stages.

It is the day of the thug in the year of the blade to the mouth of the month; In accordance with the provisions of the Treaty, the Pact countries undertook to destroy nuclear warheads and dismantle nuclear facilities under the supervision of international organizations. The Republic will destroy all tactical nuclear warheads and strategic delivery vehicles, including 48 intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles, and air-launched strategic cruise missiles on islands, the United States will destroy all tactical nuclear warheads and strategic launch vehicles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles, and air-launched strategic cruise missiles. France will destroy all tactical nuclear warheads and all strategic launch vehicles with sufficient aircraft, including old submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles and air-launched strategic cruise missiles, Britain will destroy all tactical nuclear warheads, island strategic warheads, old strategic delivery vehicles, and old submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles, and Pakistan will destroy all tactical nuclear warheads and two tactical nuclear warheads. From the date of entry into force of the Treaty, the nuclear-armed and quasi-nuclear-weapon states will cease all production activities of enriching uranium and enrichment inserts, refrain from producing and manufacturing nuclear weapons, and refrain from engaging in industrial activities related to the production and manufacture of nuclear weapons, open their domestic nuclear facilities and nuclear weapons production and manufacturing bases to the Treaty's verification organization, and unconditionally accept surprise investigations by the verification organization. To the secret 4th year of the mouth month of the day. The nuclear and quasi-nuclear states shall cease all nuclear weapons and scientific research related to the development of nuclear weapons, and the Republic, the United States, Russia, and France shall each retain a national atomic energy laboratory, which shall be subject to the supervision of the treaty

Second, from the day of the New Year to the end of the year, all the countries that have signed up to destroy nuclear warheads and dismantle nuclear facilities have undertaken to destroy nuclear warheads and dismantle nuclear facilities under the supervision of international organizations in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty. The Republic will destroy the total number of strategic nuclear warheads based on the nuclear weapons it currently possesses, and the number of strategic delivery vehicles including 3 and 4 intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles, and air-launched strategic cruise missiles, and the United States will destroy the strategic nuclear warheads, which account for the total number of strategic nuclear warheads, and the Pengzhu strategic launch vehicles, which account for the total number of ICBMs, submarine strategic ballistic missiles, and air-launched strategic cruise missiles. Russia will destroy three strategic nuclear warheads and three strategic nuclear warheads, including young intercontinental ballistic missiles, "submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles and air-launched strategic cruise missiles," France will destroy three strategic nuclear warheads and three strategic launch vehicles including submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles and air-launched strategic cruise missiles, and Britain will destroy the Gu-Mo strategic nuclear warheads, which account for the total number of ships, and the powerful strategic launch vehicles, the U.K. Israel will destroy the total number of tactical nuclear warheads, which account for 3 kan of the total. From the beginning of the year, all the countries involved in the treaty cease all nuclear material exploitation activities, and completely destroy the nuclear materials obtained from the dismantling of nuclear warheads and nuclear facilities under the supervision of the Treaty Verification Organization, and the nuclear materials required for scientific research are provided by the Treaty Verification Organization and used under the supervision and management of the Treaty Verification Organization. At the end of the year, the Republic, the United States, Russia, and France will make the results of the atomic energy laboratories public to the outside world, or close the atomic energy laboratories. During this period, the signatories must unconditionally accept the verification and unannounced investigations of the Treaty Verification Organization.

Third, from the 20,000th anniversary of the war to the date of the beginning of the year, the countries of the treaty will undertake to destroy nuclear warheads and dismantle nuclear facilities under the supervision of international organizations in accordance with the provisions of the treaty. The Republic will destroy a list of strategic nuclear warheads, including interstate ballistic missiles, submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles, and air-launched strategic cruise missiles, which account for a total of the total number of nuclear weapons currently in possession. Russia will destroy the Qiangche strategic nuclear warheads that account for the total number of loaches and the strategic delivery vehicles that account for the total gills include the Zhimei intercontinental ballistic missile, the submarine-launched strategic ballistic missile, and the embroidered air-launched strategic cruise missile, France will destroy the strategic nuclear warheads that account for the total number of gill and the air-launched strategic cruise missile, and the United Kingdom will destroy the Gumo strategic nuclear warheads, which account for the total number of ships, and the submarine-launched strategic ballistic missile, which accounts for the total number of ugly strategic delivery vehicles, and Israel will destroy the blade tactical nuclear warheads, which account for the total number of the total number of warheads. From an early age, all signatory States are required to unconditionally open their domestic facilities for verification and unannounced investigations by treaty verification bodies. By the end of the month, the still operational atomic energy laboratories must be completely closed.

In order to ensure compliance with and implementation of the Treaty, the Treaty Verification Organization, composed of personnel from States parties, is accountable to all sister States and has the authority to submit sanctions proposals to the treaty organization. In other words, if the treaty verification organization considers that a treaty state has failed to effectively implement the treaty, it will have the right to recommend that the treaty organization impose sanctions on it, or even impose a military strike.

It can be said that the treaty is extremely binding on specific terms.

More importantly, the Treaty of London was not a closed treaty, but an open one. In other words, after the treaty enters into force, any country that meets the conditions for the treaty can accede to the treaty. and began to fulfill the treaty obligations. Because the treaty clearly stipulates that the contracting countries have the obligation to safeguard the common interests of human society, if necessary, they can even force certain countries to conclude treaties within the scope of the treaty. In fact, this article eventually became the main basis for the Republic and the United States to deal with international affairs, especially peripheral affairs.

From a more fair standpoint, the Treaty of London was more favorable to the two tiers of powers.

In the words of a certain military commentator on Sky TV, after the official entry into force of the Treaty of London. It will become a powerful weapon for the two nuclear powers to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. Because the threshold of nuclear technology is not high, the basic principle is even known to high school students, the main technical problem is the enrichment of nuclear raw materials, and the increasingly sophisticated technology has greatly reduced the difficulty of enriching uranium and hairpins, so almost all countries have the potential to develop nuclear weapons. In such a situation, the major powers could not only use the obligations conferred by the London Treaty to safeguard any common interests to impose sanctions on third parties, but also, if necessary, even launch military strikes.

The total elimination of nuclear weapons is a boon to human society, but it is not

Affair.

Not everyone is so pessimistic.

In the eyes of most people, the main body of the treaty is mainly very binding, but the additional provisions of the treaty take into account the interests of the underserved and developing countries to the greatest extent.

Among the additional terms, the most valuable is the "technical open clause".

According to this article, from the day of the thug in the year of the sword and witch to the introduction of the mouth and the moon. That is, during the reduction of the first phase of the treaty. The Republic, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom will open up some of their controlled fusion nuclear technologies, and will help other countries to build controlled fusion nuclear power plants after deducting inflation from prices for two fields and six years. In order to ensure the interests of all the signatories, it is also clearly stipulated that each signatories will be responsible for the construction of each controllable fusion nuclear power plant according to the population size of phenol year, the Republic and the United States will each undertake the construction of the controllable fusion nuclear power plant, Russia will undertake the construction of the mouth seat, France will undertake the construction of 10,000 nuclear power plants, and the United Kingdom will undertake the construction of the Plating Plate. The specific construction assistance tasks shall be negotiated and resolved by the five nuclear powers and the treaty countries, and the construction aid contract shall be signed within one month after the treaty officially enters into force, and the construction aid work must be completed before the date of the introduction of the barnyard year, and the rest will be built for the other treaty countries in 2 years, 3 months, and the construction price will be reduced on the basis of the first stage. In order to ensure that the aid work is in place, the "London Treaty Funds Management Organization" will be established within six months of the treaty's entry into force. "Each of the five nuclear powers shall deposit a deposit equivalent to the scale of the first phase of construction within a month, and according to the progress of the aid project, the deposit shall be gradually returned, or the other country shall undertake the construction aid work with the deposit as collateral.

It can be said that this is the final result of the collective struggle of many small and medium-sized countries.

The five nuclear powers did not promise to provide compensation, so they could only make concessions on the issue of aid construction.

In fact, according to the provisions of the treaty's additional provisions, even in the third stage, the construction of controlled fusion nuclear power plants for the treaty countries at the current market price will not suffer losses, because controlled fusion nuclear power plants are the most profitable industry, and with the progress of technology, the cost of controlled fusion nuclear power plants will definitely plunge significantly. The most important thing is that the popularization and promotion of controlled fusion nuclear power plants has become unstoppable, and no one can stop the progress of human civilization. For the five nuclear powers that have mastered the most cutting-edge technology, why not?

Of course, the additional clause still favours under-reaching countries and developing countries.

One of the key points is this. That is, the cost of controlled fusion nuclear power plants is not clearly specified. Because the five countries must pay Wei's deposit before the start of the aid work, which is about 100 million yuan according to the scale of the Republic's aid, the United States has to pay about 100 million US dollars, and the negotiation with the treaty countries is later, so the countries can negotiate with the five nuclear powers on the cost issue. In other words, if it is not possible to sign the required amount of construction aid obligations with other countries, it will either buy "construction quotas" from other major powers. "Either let the margin go down the drain. No doubt. In the construction of controllable fusion nuclear power plants with high profits, no nuclear power is willing to let the deposit go to waste, let alone lose its valuable market share, so it is necessary to keep the price of aid projects as low as possible.

Because there are still the second and third phases of the construction project, the five nuclear powers will have to invest more in scientific research on the controlled fusion nuclear power plant project after the price is reduced. Improve the technical level and reduce the average cost. It can be seen that the additional clause also has the effect of promoting the progress of human technology.

Of course, if the additional clause does not benefit the five nuclear powers, it will definitely be vetoed.

From the standpoint of the five nuclear powers, in addition to occupying market share through aid projects, there are two obvious benefits: First, it prevents the technological proliferation of controllable building-to-nuclear power plants, and allows some countries that have the ability to make breakthroughs in related fields to give up their own development and directly purchase finished products from the nuclear powers. For example, Pakistan will definitely hand over the aid projects to the Republic, Canada will hand over the aid projects to the United States, Germany will hand over the aid projects to France, and Ukraine will hand over the aid projects to Russia, because the controllable fusion nuclear power plant is the main energy source for the production and life of human society. Therefore, through the aid project, it is enough to promote the relations between the five nuclear powers and their allies.

In the case of benefits for all countries, the additional clause was naturally adopted.

How important this add-on is, people who have the most say in the future. At that time, some people also saw the far-reaching impact of this clause on the entire human society.

In the words of the chairman of a European energy group, after the treaty officially enters into force, the impact of the additional clauses on human civilization is far greater than the treaty itself, and in the next few years, controlled fusion reactors will be fully popularized, even people living in the most remote areas can enjoy the huge benefits of scientific and technological progress, and for tens of thousands of years after that, mankind will no longer have to worry about energy. Poverty will become a historical term.

Of course, different people have different opinions.

In the eyes of politicians, the add-on clause is actually a huge bait, because only by joining the treaty organization can you get cheap electricity and the country's economy will be competitive. As a result, almost all countries that did not participate in the International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament would have to think about their future.

If we look at the impact of the London Treaty, it is not an exaggeration to call it a "turning point in human civilization".