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Almost the entire southern hemisphere is now covered by nuclear-weapon-free zones. The ones in Latin America and the South Pacific were established during the Cold War, those in Southeast Asia and Africa after its ending. Zones have also been proposed, so far without success, for the Middle East, South Asia and Northeast Asia. In this book, analysts from within the respective regions explore the reasons for success and failure in the establishment of the zone, and their utility and limitations as stepping stones to a nuclear-weapon-free world

RECENT TREATIES PROVIDE IMPORTANT SYMBOLIC STEPS TOWARDS KEEPING SOME REGIONS NUCLEAR-FREE, AND MODELS FOR OTHER REGIONS. WEAPONS-FREE ZONES REPRESENT PEOPLES' ASPIRATIONS TO REDUCE THE THREAT OF DIRECT VIOLENCE BY REMOVING THE INSTRUMENTS OF SUCH VIOLENCE. THE ZONES AIM TO REDUCE THE MILITARY CAPABILITY FOR PURSUING COERCIVE AND VIOLENT ENDS, THIS ARTICLE NOTES THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS PREOCCUPATION WITH WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION SINCE SMALL WEAPONS PRODUCE GROWING AND WIDESPREAD DEATH AROUND THE WORLD. IT FAVORS SEEKING FROM THE MOVEMENT TO LIMIT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION SOME MOMENTUM FOR ALSO EXCLUDING OTHER TYPES OF WEAPONS. THE MATERIAL AND SYMBOLIC BENEFITS PROVIDED BY WEAPONS-FREE ZONES ARE DETAILED.

Examines the benefit of nuclear weapon-free zones as interim steps towards more general global disarmament, their origins, monitoring, and the changed US attitude towards them.

Model treaties of Latin America, the South Pacific, and Korea; potential zones in Africa, the Near East, and South Asia. Examples include the Treaty of Tlatelolco and Treaty of Rarotonga.