Urgent Proposals toward Sustaining Non-Use of Nuclear Arms and Maintenance of Nuclear Order

In Fiscal 2023, a new “Study Group on New Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament Initiatives” was created with the participation of new members to look at ways to reduce the risk of using nuclear weapons and achieve new nuclear arms control and disarmament amid the unprecedented heightening of the risk of nuclear arms use in light of Russia’s nuclear intimidation in its invasion of Ukraine, China’s. [...] 6 Urgent Proposals toward Sustaining Non-Use of Nuclear Arms and Maintenance of Nuclear Order Proposal 1：Reconfirm the importance of sustaining non-use of nuclear arms and maintenance of nuclear order, spearhead summit diplomacy for concrete measures to reduce risk of nuclear arms use The world is currently facing the risk of nuclear arms use. [...] In order to support negotiations by the nuclear powers on nuclear arms control for the future, the Japanese government should cooperate with civil society, promote “Track 2 Nuclear Dialogues” focusing on nuclear issues with the involved nations in the region, and build a mechanism for the results of the 1 Countries that do not possess nuclear weapons but depend on other nuclear powers for nuclear. [...] 4 At the G7 Summit in May 2023, the leaders shared a common understanding of the risk of nuclear arms use facing the world and reconfirmed their intent to “extend the 77-year record of non-use of nuclear weapons.” 10 Proposal 2: Negotiations on arms control have stagnated, and the involved countries are instead moving toward expanding the role of nuclear weapons. [...] In order to support negotiations by the nuclear powers on nuclear arms control for the future, the Japanese government should cooperate with civil society, promote “Track 2 Nuclear Dialogues” focusing on nuclear issues with the involved nations in the region, and build a mechanism for the results of the dialogues to be reflected in intergovernmental discussions.