Clearly, we will have to push the politicians if they are to instruct the diplomats to negotiate and implement a convention. Otherwise they’ll muddle on for decades, shuffling up the “incremental steps”, plastering over cracks in the disarmament edifice, wavering in the shadow of annihilation.
If it’s true - and I think it is - that it’s up to us, the people, to make this happen, then the professional disarmers actually need to listen to us. We want, we demand, a nuclear weapons convention: we’ll settle for nothing less.
It is feasible for nuclear weapons abolition to be achieved within a timeframe of no more than 20 years. But we need to stop shuffling and get with the “six-step” to secure our survival. What’s stopping us?
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Dr Bill Williams is a GP in rural Victoria. He is the President of the Medical Association of the Prevention of War, a Board Member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and International Councilor of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War.
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