Fremetian Application to the ENAA
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Nation Name: Kingdom of Fremet
Applicant's name and applicant's authority to apply on behalf of their nation: Erna Solberg, Statsminister of the Kingdom of Fremet
Nation's IC Count: 106,645.34
Does your nation meet minimum requirements for nuclear weapon production?: YES
Reasons for applying: Why do you want to produce a nuclear arsenal?:
Fremet is facing renewed threats from a historically (and presently) hostile neighbour that maintains a sizeable nuclear arsenal. Though the Fremetian government has invested heavily in advanced missile defence systems, no such systems are impenetrable. Thus, if even a single nuclear warhead were to breach Fremet's Iron Dome, it would wreak utter devastation over a significant portion of the island and significantly hinder any response from Fremet's conventional forces. This, in addition to ever-more isolationist moves from ENAA-licensed states and complete silence from the Gallois government, makes it necessary for Fremet to break with years of foreign policy and apply for an ENAA license. We can no longer expect to rely on the goodwill of other nations to maintain the uneasy peace between the UNSR and Fremet. They have no obligation to Fremet or her people. We must do what it takes to ensure the safety of our own citizens.
Fremet is under siege by a nation that maintains an illegal nuclear arsenal— one that they obtained by overthrowing a state licensed by this body. Fremet has a right to defend its citizens, and will not allow itself to be held for ransom at the point of an ICBM.
Fremet did apply in 2016 and was rejected. While Europe wasn’t exactly a safe place in 2016, we were not facing a massive threat on our own doorstep. In truth, we had little cause to pursue nuclear armament. Times change however, and we no longer find ourselves in a position of relative safety. A rogue state has risen not a stone’s throw away from our shores. We are not nuclear armed. They are. Even during the Cold War, we allowed Gallorum to station nuclear missiles here in Fremet. Allowing a hostile neighbour a monopoly on nuclear first-strike capability is suicide.
Reasons for approval: Why should the ENAA grant approval?:
Fremet has demonstrated a high degree of political stability, especially compared with that of its neighbours. Fremet has maintained the peaceful transition of power since the success of the revolution in 1930 and the subsequent adoption of the written constitution in 1935. Fremet has also continued to involve itself in foreign affairs, forming long-term bonds with European nations and entering in lasting bilateral trade agreements. Combined with the fourth largest economy in the EU, Fremet is well positioned to offer a stable environment and safely maintain a secure nuclear arsenal with the resources to perform the maintenance required in storing such weapons safely.
Thanks in part to a general lack of fossil fuel resources, Fremet has built out one of Europe's most extensive nuclear power grids and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decades of experience handling radioactive waste from research reactors, power-generation facilities, and nuclear weapons themselves thanks in part to them being stationed in Fremet. The Nuclear Security Administration, the agency primarily tasked with the safety of nuclear weapons in Fremet, maintained the Gallois nuclear arsenal in Fremet in conjunction with the Ministry of Defence from 1980 to their removal in 1998. The Nuclear Security Administration remains an important agency in protecting Fremet from the dangers of nuclear weapons and continues to oversee the application of nuclear energy in the military. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission maintains a dedicated, permanent site for the long-term storage of hazardous hi-level nuclear waste at the Sanders Site in southern Gårdsmark.
Fremet has only experienced one major nuclear incident. In 1976, a heavy water reactor in the Rhodenheim National Laboratory experienced a partial meltdown as one of the pressure relief valves on the reactor failed during an active stress test. A small amount of nuclear material was released, requiring the immediate evacuation of the surrounding area. The cleanup of the area was completed in 1978, and, after the failure, the Atomic Energy Agency was tasked with retrofitting existing reactors to correct the flaw and design future reactors to avoid such an issue. Regular stress tests of reactor designs are now performed using computer modelling and new micro-reactors that, even in the event of a total meltdown, result in minimal threat levels outside of these self-enclosed facilities. Fremet has a highly advanced and adaptive nuclear safety infrastructure under the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which reports directly to the Staatsrat. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is comprised of the Atomic Energy Agency (civilian applications) and the Nuclear Security Administration (military applications).
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The ENAA in a 5-0 decision has elected to APPROVE Fremet's application for a nuclear proliferation license, with a limit of 275 nuclear warheads. Fremet has proven itself a stable democracy, and an archetype of all the virtues a nuclear state should hold.
Kristian Nylund
Archkonsul of the Archrepublic of Vayinaod
