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S: UN – http://www.un.org/disarmament/WMD/Nuclear/ (last access: 22 November 2014); BPO – http://www.baselpeaceoffice.org/article/united-nations-general-assembly-takes-new-action-nuclear-disarmament (last access: 22 November 2014).

N: 1. nuclear (adj): 1846, “of or like the nucleus of a cell,” from nucleus + -ar, probably by influence of French nucléaire. Use in atomic physics is from 1914; of weapons, from 1945. Alternative adjective nucleal is recorded from 1840.
disarmament (n): 1795; see dis- + armament.
dis: from Old French des- or directly from Latin dis- “apart (assimilated as dif- before -f-, to di- before most voiced consonants), word-forming element meaning 1. “lack of, not” ; 2. “do the opposite of” ; 3. “apart, away”.
armament: c.1600, “munitions of war” (especially the great guns on board a man-of-war), also “naval force equipped for war” (1690s), from Latin armamentum “implement,” from Latin armare “to arm, furnish with weapons” from arma.
2. Refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated.
3. In fact, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on 8 July 1996 that the use and threat of use of nuclear weapons violate the principles of international law, and concluded unanimously that all states have an obligation to commence and conclude negotiations on complete nuclear disarmament.
4. A number of multilateral treaties have since been established with the aim of preventing nuclear proliferation and testing, while promoting progress in nuclear disarmament. These include the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests In The Atmosphere, In Outer Space And Under Water, also known as the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which was signed in 1996 but has yet to enter into force. Besides, the practical steps with regard to nuclear disarmament were agreed upon at the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty.
5. Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous weapons on earth. Nuclear weapons have only been used twice in warfare during the Second World War in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Nowadays, about 26,000 reportedly remain in our world and there have been over 2,000 nuclear tests conducted to date.

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