The Treaty of Tlatelolco, an Example for the Creation of New Nuclear Weapons-Free Zones

This essay is divided into five large sections. The first emphasizes how the bellicose use of nuclear energy required humanity to forge a new code of ethics that must be remembered so as not to allow ourselves to be seduced by the recent tendencies toward "nuclear complacency". The second section underlines the importance of establishing a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone (NWFZ) in Latin America through the Treaty of Tlatelolco. The third section sums up the objectives and characteristics of this treaty and the NWFZ it creates. The fourth section defines what the NWFZ is; it also briefly reports the NWFZ's that exist up until today and underlines the importance of the territory they cover. The last section includes thoughts about what, in the author's opinion, constitutes the current main challenges of the Organization for the Proscription of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL).