We believe a WMDFZ in the Middle East can be advanced through a treaty-based approach involving three key components:
1) A WMDFZ Treaty—a text freely arrived at by relevant governments and stakeholders through an inclusive process.
2) A Regional Organization—to oversee the treaty’s eventual implementation, verification and compliance.
3) Civil Society Engagement—to advance a robust civil society movement ensuring governments deliver on their commitments to non-proliferation and human security.
In a proactive effort to turn the vision of the Zone into practical steps, we began crafting a living Draft Treaty text that could form the basis for discussion, and we established a preparatory organization named the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO).
John Feffer, "One of Trump’s first acts of revenge against the international community will be to unravel the nuclear deal with Iran. Trump may not rip up the agreement on day one of his term. But he will give the green light to Congress to impose new sanctions. Iran, in turn, will retaliate, and the agreement will be as good as dead. And just as we have just elected our hardline nationalist, Iran will probably oust its reformist leaders in the next elections."
6 April, By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER "The 50-page “Nuclear Posture Review” released on Tuesday acknowledged outright that “the massive nuclear arsenal we inherited from the cold-war era” is “poorly suited to address the challenges posed by suicida
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