§ Lord Jenkins of Putneyasked her Majesty's Government:
Why the United States, which already has 26,000 nuclear warheads, enough to kill everyone on earth and to spare, is continuing to turn out eight more every day and whether they will ask the US Government to desist.
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Plenary Chief Vote No. Title Sponsor For Against Abstentions UK Vote 38/61 Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 37/71 concerning he signature and ratification of Additional Protocol 1 of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco). Mexico 135 0 9 FOR 38/62 Cessation of all test explosions of Nuclear Weapons. Mexico 119 2 26 AGAINST 38/63 Urgent need for Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Australia and New Zealand 117 0 29 ABSTAIN 38/64 Establishment of a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone in the Region of the Middle East; Report of the Secretary General. Egypt CONSENSUS FOR 38/65 Establishment of a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone in South Asia. Pakistan 94 3 46 ABSTAIN 38/67 Conclusion of an International Convention on the Strengthening of the Security of Non-Nuclear Weapon States Against the Use or Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons. Bulgaria 108 17 15 AGAINST 38/68 Conclusion of Effective International Arrangements to Assure Non-Nuclear States Against the Use or Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons. Pakistan 141 0 6 ABSTAIN 38/69 Israeli Nuclear Armament. Iraq 99 2 39 ABSTAIN 38/72 Immediate Cessation and Prohibition of Nuclear Weapon Tests. USSR 118 4 24 AGAINST 38/73B Review and Implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly; Freeze on Nuclear Weapons. India 124 15 7 AGAINST 38/73E Nuclear Arms Freeze. Mexico and Sweden 124 13 8 AGAINST 38/183C Prohibition of the Nuclear Neutron Weapon: Report of the Committee on Disarmament. DDR 74 12 57 AGAINST 38/73G Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons. India 126 17 6 AGAINST 38/74 Implementation of the Conclusions of the Second Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and Establishment of a Preparatory Committee for the Third Review Conference. UK 134 0 7 FOR 38/75 Condemnation of Nuclear War. USSR 95 19 30 AGAINST
§ Baroness YoungWe do not comment on the details of our Allies' military programmes but, if NATO's strategy of deterrence is to remain effective, United States nuclear forces will need periodic modernisation just as older warheads will need to be withdrawn.