Nuclear-Weapon-Free zones; the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone treaty
- Author: United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
- Main Title: United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 1995 , pp 65-87
- Publication Date: December 1997
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/dc280ca5-en
- Language: English
The concept of a nuclear-weapon-free zone was first developed in the late 1950s as a possible complementary measure to efforts to establish a global regime for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Soon, however, it acquired prominence in its own right as a regional approach—as an expression of the desire of a group of non-nuclear-weapon States to protect themselves from nuclear testing and from the potential danger of nuclear confrontation and to preclude the deployment of nuclear weapons on their territories and in adjacent areas. Given this broad objective, the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones and acceptance of their terms by the nuclear-weapon States had to be considered in the light of the military-strategic situation obtaining during the cold war.
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