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Similar conventions have successfully outlawed other WMD

Comprehensive treaties have been negotiated to outlaw other entire categories of weapons, from biological and chemical arms to anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions. In fact, nuclear weapons are the only WMD that has not yet been banned.

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Similar conventions have successfully outlawed other WMD
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Mine Ban Treaty
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Progress made on landmines and cluster munitions
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Convention on Cluster Munitions
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Analogy with nuclear weapons is not valid
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Cluster munitions and anti-personnel mines are not WMDs
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States are legally obliged to negotiate a Nuclear Weapons Convention
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Minimalist approach to disarmament has proven inadequate
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Widespread, popular support for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
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A NWC would would make the world safer
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Pursuit of a NWC would draw the global community together
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Can't legislate for security
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Conditions necessary to enable a ban aren't in place
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Legislation prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons already exists
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Pursuit of a NWC would hamper progress on other key treaties
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