What systems and capabilities does the United Nations have to respond to the humanitarian consequences of a nuclear weapon detonation?

No part of the United Nations system has been explicitly tasked with preparing for how to assist the victims of a nuclear weapon detonation event. (As will be discussed in part four, the General Assembly did ask the United Nations to study how it would offer assistance to Member States in the context of a terrorist nuclear attack.) The IAEA, as will be described shortly, has been closely involved in responding to accidents involving civil nuclear facilities and in planning to prevent or mitigate such occurrences. However, in response to our question about whether the IAEA regards a nuclear emergency as encompassing nuclear weapon detonation events, the Agency responded that “the IAEA has no mandate for coverage of such events”.

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