St. Joseph Church
Bristol, Connecticut

Deacon Robert M. Pallotti, D. Min.
Pastoral Minister

US and Russia

• Implement START II.
  
• Reduce arsenals to 2000 warheads each.
  
• Engage UK, France, and China in policy] negotiations on non-proliferation, nuclear safety and security, long-term arms control.
  
• Gradually extend bilateral exchanges on nuclear safety, security, and accountability.
  
• Reduce readiness levels.
  
• Increase cooperation on nuclear safety and security.

US

• Limit nuclear roles to deterrence of other nuclear threats only.
  
• Support actions reducing prestige attached to NW possession.
  
• Support negotiation of ban on producing fissile material for military purposes.
  
• Begin official studies to find solutions to key challenges:

1. Verification of elimination.
   
2. Safeguards against breakout.
   
3. Implications of phased elimination on relations with allies.
   
4. Implications of phased elimination on conventional military forces.
   
5. Potential role of defensive systems in safeguarding a ban on nuclear weapons.

• UK, France, China and threshold nuclear states should not undertake actions to undermine non-proliferation regime.
  
• Reinforcing policies:
  
1. Build strong cooperative relationship with Russia
   
2. Promote cooperation with China and Asia
   
3. Progress toward eliminating nuclear and chemical weapons.

• US and Russia able to cooperate to reduce nuclear dangers.
  
• Stable and cooperative relations among declared NWSs so that nuclear deterrence no longer plays central role in their mutual relations.
  
• Russia finds role in Europe that others would accept without concern for security.
  
• China participates in multilateral cooperation in Asia.
  
• Effective and robust non-proliferation regimes for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
  
• Significant progress toward resolution of conflicts in Europe and Asia to minimize risks of new security threats.
  
• Value of nuclear weapons as symbols of global status greatly diminished.

• Declared NWSs:

1. Reduce arsenals to hundreds of weapons each.
   
2. Remove most. If not all, nukes from active alert status.
   
3. Extend bilateral regime of nuclear transparency measure to UK, France, China..
   
4. Explore possible cooperative deployment of  defensive systems.
   
5. Begin to address capabilities of threshold nuclear states.
   

• Reinforcing policies:

1. Measures to address security concerns of states in volatile regions and of threshold nuclear states.
   
2. Commit to build or strengthen regional and international organizations and institutions.
   
3. Strengthen global non-proliferation regimes for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

• "De-nationalization of nuclear weapons.
  
• NWSs reduce arsenals to tens of weapons then:
  
• Create international "trustee"system;

• Create integrated multilateral nuclear force through pooling of remaining
  
• NWSs arsenals.
  
• Reinforcing policies:
  
• Strengthen ability or regional organizations and states to anticipate, resolve, and respond to threats to national and international security.

• Movement toward new guiding principles for national security policy, including:
  
• Functioning and reliable regional and global collective security regimes.
  
• High levels of transparency, with access to accurate information on NW and fissile material stockpiles of remaining NWSs.
  
• Intrusive verification regime.
  
• Effective system of incentives and penalties to ensure compliance with constraints on military force and WMD acquisition.
  
• Nuclear weapons only role to provide reassurance that international community could respond to unexpected threat.
  
• States remain sovereign

• Eliminate nuclear weapons.
  
• Preserve reconstitution capability under international safeguards.

• May require spread of democracy
  
• Safeguards against risks of non-nuclear world..