Tournament: KCKCC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lindenwood | Judge: 

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INHERENCY

MOMENTUM FOR DISARM HAS SLOWED – THE U.S. CONTINUES TO MODERNIZE ITS ARSENAL

Lawrence Wittner (Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany) 9/21/2013
~"Eliminating Nuclear Weapons Is Just as Important as Eliminating Chemical Weapons" online @ http://original.antiwar.com/lawrence-wittner/2013/09/20/eliminating-nuclear-weapons-is-just-as-important-as-eliminating-chemical-weapons/-http://original.antiwar.com/lawrence-wittner/2013/09/20/eliminating-nuclear-weapons-is-just-as-important-as-eliminating-chemical-weapons/, loghry~
Even so, there are numerous signs that the nuclear disarmament momentum is slowing.
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hungry citizens can take heart that it is working to remedy this deficiency.

PLAN

The United States Congress should prohibit the introduction of U.S. nuclear forces into hostilities.

OUR ADVANTAGE

SILENCE TOWARD NUCLEAR WEAPONS HAS THREATENED OUR EXISTENCE. IT HAS CREATED A SOCIAL SPHERE WHERE WE CAN NO LONGER EXAMINE THE IMPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. MAKES ALL IMPACTS INEVITABLE

Fishel in 2008 (Stefanie ~Dept of Political Science @ John Hopkins~, "Nuclear Collective Memories, Hidden Histories, and Remembering the Future", Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA’s 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA Online, kdf)
Historically, nuclear debates in the United States have centered on the "unspeakability"
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of nuclearism on the whole due to the sublime nature of nuclear weapons.. 

AND, DETERRENCE HAS LOST ITS THEORETICAL UTILITY – IT IS CRUCIAL WE MOBILIZE POLITICS AGAINST NUCLEAR WEAPONS OR WE RISK INEVITABLE NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE

Karp in 92 (Regina Cowen ~Senior Researcher and leader of the SIPRI Security Without Nuclear Weapons? Project; frmr Resident Fellow @ the Institute for East-West Security Studies~; Security Without Nuclear Weapons?; p. 1-3; kdf)
More than 30 years ago, William T. R. Fox observed that ’rational
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way it was conceived and the powerful hold it has exerted over policy.

AND, A BREAKDOWN IN DETERRENCE IS INEVITABLE—PLAN IS BETTER THAN CURRENT POSSESSION, WHICH HOLDS THE WORLD HOSTAGE TO A PERMANENT DEATH SENTENCE.

Robert Tucker, Professor of Politics Princeton, April 1985
~"Special Issue: Symposium on Ethics and Nuclear Deterrence," Ethics, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 467-468, jt~

It is deterrence rather than nuclear war that expresses today the spirit of reason of
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matter much save as they bear on what undoubtedly does matter-deterrence?
The first and, indeed, the last thing that needs to be said in
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the familiar argument runs, the odds lengthen that deterrence will break down.
There is no satisfactory response that may be made to this argument. The American
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it would not alter in any fundamental way the present structure of deterrence. 

AND, PLAN IS PART OF A LARGER PROCESS OF ACHIEVING GLOBAL ZERO – NOW IS A CRUCIAL MOMENT IN HISTORY. WE ARE THE FIRST GENERATION THAT WILL DECIDE IF WE WILL BE THE LAST

Granoff in 2010 (Jonathon ~president of the Global Security Institute, senior advisor to the American Bar Assosiation’s Committee on Arms Control and National Security, senior advisor to the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit~; The Process of Zero; World Policy Journal Winter 2009/10, Vol. 26, No. 4: 85–93; kdf)
History never stands still. The existence of nuclear weapons amplifies our responsibility to determine
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a new international political and social architecture that itself makes us more secure.

AND, Debate is a unique site for escaping the esoteric view of nuclear weapons—creating change in the real world evident by the nexus between educational institutions and our actions

Anisfield in 1991 (Nancy ~Lecturer in the English dept. @ Saint Michael’s College; teaches war lit @ U of Vermont~; The Nightmare Considered: Critical Essays on Nuclear War and Literature; p 1; kdf)
This is a difficult moment to present a study of nuclear war literature. As
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and must be integrated into the classroom at as many levels as possible.
It is also important not to dismiss the critical studies of nuclear literature as merely
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our activities and what we perceive as ’the real world’ " (27).

SOLVENCY

STATUS QUO UNDERSTANDINGS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE STEEPED IN NUMBING DISCOURSE AND SECRECY THAT MAKES NUCLEARIZATION AND EXTINCTION INEVITABLE. RESTRICTING THE PRESIDENT’S ABILITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS CRUCIAL TO CHANGING STRUCTURAL UNDERSTANDING OF DETERRENCE AND THE WEAPONS THEMSELVES – IT’S THE CRUCIAL FIRST STEP TO GLOBAL DISARMAMENT

Jules Zacher (sole practitioner engaged in the practice of law since 1974) 4/19/2013 ~"Presidential Authority and Nuclear Weapons: Taking Back Our Rights" online @ https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/1942-zacherpresidential-authority-and-nuclear-weapons-https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/1942-zacherpresidential-authority-and-nuclear-weapons, loghry~

2. Secrecy As stated by Dr. Robert Jay Lifton The myth of the
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.Indeed, the very existence of Mankind depends on such an effort.

AND, CONGRESS IS THE ONLY ACTOR THAT CAN SOLVE

JULES LOBEL (Professor of Law,  University of Pittsburgh) 2008 ~"Conflicts Between the Commander in Chief and Congress: Concurrent Power  over the Conduct of War" OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL Vol. 69:391, loghry~

The Framers of the Constitution intended that Congress have substantial  power to  control  the  conduct  
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decide whether the President’s policies and  strategies are those the nation should follow. 

AND, CONGRESS CAN LIMIT THE AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN ANY OR ALL THEATRES OF WARFARE

JULES LOBEL (Professor of Law,  University of Pittsburgh) 2008 ~"Conflicts Between the Commander in Chief and Congress: Concurrent Power  over the Conduct of War" OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL Vol. 69:391, loghry~

The third theory—based on the distinction between general rules and specific tactics—
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real problem of determining the respective powers of Congress and the President.43

MODELING / UNILAT GOOD

THE UNITED STATES MUST ABOLISH ITS NUCLEAR ARSENAL – TO ENGAGE ¶ IN TREATIES OR TIT FOR TAT NEGOTIATIONS CONCEDES LEGITIMACY TO ¶ NUCLEAR DEVICES THAT MAKES THEIR POSSESSION POSSIBLE.

Johan GALTUNG, 2K3,
~Norwegian sociologist and a principal founder of the discipline of Peace and conflict studies, holds more than 7 doctorate ¶ degrees, "Towards the Abolition of Nuclear Weaponry: A Theological Approach," International Symposium for Peace, ¶ http://salsa.net/peace/article63.html, acc. 9-12-2009~

The key lies in the word "abolition" because it directs our thought,
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by way of Tokyo Forums, NPT, CTBT, and similar instruments.