A Global Disarmament Blueprint Calls for Scrapping Both Nuclear and Conventional Arms

The column contends that today’s turmoil—ongoing Middle-East wars, a burgeoning nuclear competition, AI-enabled weaponry, and trade and immigration frictions—demands a comprehensive framework for peace. It introduces SCRAP, the Strategic Concept for the Removal of Arms and Proliferation, which aspires to achieve the United Nations’ founding aim of complete disarmament across all weapon categories. The author highlights that modern non-nuclear arms, such as precision drones, are increasingly destructive, and notes credible reports of the United States fielding submarine-launched ballistic missiles equipped with conventional warheads, a move that could be mistaken for a nuclear strike.

Historical U.S. interventions in Iraq, Libya and Iran, aimed at regime change, are cited as factors that may encourage nuclear-armed states like North Korea to view weapons as protection against conventional attacks. Consequently, the article asserts that reducing only nuclear arsenals will not secure peace without also curbing conventional weapons production and deployment. Future columns will examine the practical steps and challenges of implementing the SCRAP blueprint.