ABSTRACT
A "Model Nuclear Weapons Convention" (MNWC) offers a considered framework for such a Treaty, explicitly analogous to the BWC and CWC. The full title of the MNWC is "Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Testing, Production, Stockpiling, Transfer, Use and Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons and on Their Elimination." An Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons would conduct verification activities. The MNWC is an exercise in denuclearization design. Its authors anticipate what would be expected in a treaty. They offer a credible text, showing that the complex technical and political issues in denuclearization could be brought within a concise, direct, and fully comprehensible treaty. It answers the question "what could be on the table?" if States undertook to complete an NWC. Authors of the MNWC do not claim to have foreseen every issue that might arise, but have drafted an approach that is both comprehensive and flexible.
