Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough MC | Judge: Joseph Barquin
1AC 

1AC – Framework 

Simple perception tells us that pleasure is good and pain is bad – to deny the value of such judgments undermines the basis for any system of reasoning.
Nagel – Thomas Nagel. “The View from Nowhere”. Oxford University Press. 1986. pg 156-157

Only utilitarianism can serve as the basis to legitimately justify policy to the public. Government actions will inevitably lead to trade-offs between citizens. The only justifiable way to resolve these conflicts is utilitarianism.
Gary Woller BYU Prof., “An Overview by Gary Woller”, A Forum on the Role of Environmental Ethics, June 1997, pg. 10

No act omission distinction for states since their implicit approvals of actions still entail moral responsibility
Sunstein and Vermuele Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule. The University of Chicago Law School. “Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life‐Life Tradeoffs.” JOHN M. OLIN LAW and ECONOMICS WORKING PAPER NO. 239. The Chicago Working Paper Series. March 2005 

If there’s even a risk of ethical uncertainty, we should always prioritize the survival of the human race to ensure future value.
Bostrom Nick Bostrom. Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. “Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.” Global Policy (2012)

Thus, the standard is maximizing expected well-being.

1AC

Advantage 1: Prolif 

Nuclear Power multiplies the risk for nuclear proliferation and nuclear terror – safeguards are uncertain and nuclear power weakens them
Miller and Sagan 9 - Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Scott Sagan, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1981-1982; Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security ("Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation?" Journal Article, Daedalus, volume 138, issue 4, pages 7-18, http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/publication/19850/nuclear_power_without_nuclear_proliferation.html) RMT 

Turns the environment DA – proliferation overwhelms incentives for civilian use of nuclear reactors
Li and Yim 13- Mang-Sung Yim is in the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Jun Li works at UNC Chapel Hill (“Examining relationship between nuclear proliferation and civilian nuclear power development” Progress in Nuclear Energy Volume 66, July 2013, Pages 108–114http:www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149197013000504) RMT 

Prolif in new states causes nuclear conflict.
Kroenig 14 – Matthew, Associate Professor and International Relations Field Chair at Georgetown University, and Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at The Atlantic Council (“The History of Proliferation Optimism: Does It Have A Future?”, April 2014, http://www.matthewkroenig.com/The20History20of20Proliferation20Optimism_Feb2014.pdf)

1AC – SCS

Advantage 2 —SCS

China’s building floating nuclear reactors now
Tony Roulstone 16 (Tony Roulstone, ) China wants a fleet of floating nuke plants, CNN 5-10-2016 AT

Those will allow China to enforce an ADIZ around the SCS
Keith Johnson 16 (Keith Johnson, ) China’s Got Nuclear Power Plans for its Fake Islands, Foreign Policy 4-23-2016 AT

But it requires infrastructure to successfully prosecute
Ankit Panda, The Diplomat 16 (Ankit Panda, The Diplomat, ) Is China Really About to Announce a South China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone? Maybe, Diplomat 6-1-2016 AT

Successful ADIZ expansion collapses global shipping and shuts down oil
Anthony Fensom 16 (Anthony Fensom, Australia-based freelance writer and consultant with more than a decade's experience in Asia-Pacific financial/media industries, ) $5 Trillion Meltdown: What If China Shuts Down the South China Sea?, National Interest 7-16-2016 AT

Safe shipping routes key to global survival
Mitropoulos 5 (Efthimios, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations) World Maritime Day Parallel Event, 11/15, International Maritime Organization

Oil shocks go nuclear
King 08 (Neil, Peak Oil: A Survey of Security Concerns, Center for a New American Security, p. 14-17)