{"id":732,"date":"2005-04-13T22:54:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T04:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=732"},"modified":"2005-06-09T22:33:35","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T03:33:35","slug":"un-approves-nuclear-terrorism-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"UN Approves Nuclear Terrorism Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can sleep soundly tonight, safe under the warm, fuzzy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2005-04-13-voa50.cfm\">blanket of security provided by the United Nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United Nations has approved a treaty aimed at preventing nuclear terrorism.  Passage of the measure ends seven years of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, no vote was necessary.  The 191-member General Assembly adopted the &#8220;International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism&#8221; by consensus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There, there, rest your little head.  We&#8217;re all snug and safe now.  The vigilant UN is immediately on the case to deal with a threat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The measure is the 13th U.N. anti-terrorism convention, and the first adopted since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, please realize that &#8220;immediately on the case&#8221; leaves a lot of room for interpretation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The treaty adopted Wednesday obligates governments to prosecute or extradite anyone who possesses or threatens to use radioactive materials with intent to cause death or injury.<\/p>\n<p>The accord is to be opened for signatures on September 14, during a summit of world leaders in New York.  It needs ratification of 22 countries to become international law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I expect it to become international law.  I expect it to look nice, printed in a good font, adorned by meticulously-drawn signatures on the finest of paper.  I also expect its enforcement to show it&#8217;s not worth the cost of that paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can sleep soundly tonight, safe under the warm, fuzzy blanket of security provided by the United Nations. The United Nations has approved a treaty aimed at preventing nuclear terrorism. Passage of the measure ends seven years of negotiations. In the end, no vote was necessary. The 191-member General Assembly adopted the &#8220;International Convention for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-nations","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}