Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Brentwood EL | Judge: Taylor, Carlos
I affirm Resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.

The current world order is dominated by a western nuclear hegemony that preys upon countries that fall on the lower side of the power dynamic.

Hayes states:
Hayes, Peter. "American Nuclear Hegemony in Korea." Journal of Peace Research 25.4 (1988): 351-64. Web.
By the same ... underlie that order.

On the international scale nuclear weapons serve as both an extension of and creator of hegemony. When America first created nuclear weapons this served to enforce their rule among the Pacific but its sphere of nuclear influence has grown larger since.

Hayes 2 states:
Hayes, Peter. "American Nuclear Hegemony in Korea." Journal of Peace Research 25.4 (1988): 351-64. Web.
In an earlier ... the Far East

Thus, the hegemony allows the Western world to pursue unilateral military action at will. This leads to catastrophic wars that manifest themselves as massacres of nations. This dominance eventually segued into a policy of using nuclear weapons not just for military advantage but also as a political tool.

Hayes 3 states:
Hayes, Peter. "American Nuclear Hegemony in Korea." Journal of Peace Research 25.4 (1988): 351-64. Web.
Truman and Eisenhower’s ... as 'extended deterrence'.

In this new world order where we have an American-led western hegemony that uses nuclear powers as its greatest tool, extreme measures can be justified to the nuclear industrial complex if they prevent proliferation. So not only can the hegemony declare any war it wants but it can also justify it and therefore have support for those wars.

Hayes 4 states:
Hayes, Peter. "American Nuclear Hegemony in Korea." Journal of Peace Research 25.4 (1988): 351-64. Web.
State organs control ... horizontal nuclear proliferation.

Additionally, the political issue of preventing proliferation becomes a source of power for the hegemony because of the support that comes with the issue. An example of this is Iran when the possibility that Iran had nukes became enough justification for an attack. This was both an extension of the hegemony’s punishment of deviant states as well as an assurance of their power.

Greenwald states:
Greenwald, Glenn. "The True Reason US Fears Iranian Nukes: They Can Deter US Attacks." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 02 Oct. 2012. Web. 17 Sept. 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/02/iran-nukes-deterrence.
No rational person ...and bloodthirsty warmongers.

This fear of proliferation is a powerful enough political tool it allows the hegemony to simply use these fear tactics any time they want to justify a war. Additionally, the rhetoric used by the nuclear hegemony becomes the root of a toxic social order.

In order to prevent proliferation, minority countries are depicted as irrational, suicidal, or just evil. It creates a rhetorical environment in which only the rational white world is capable of handling nuclear power.

Fekete states:
Fekete,Liz Anti-Muslim Racism and the European Security State 2009  http://rac.sagepub.com/content/46/1/3.full.pdf
After the events ...made from scrutiny.

This allows for the social marginalization of brown bodies as the outcast in the politics of fear. 

Fekete 2 states:
Fekete,Liz Anti-Muslim Racism and the European Security State 2009  http://rac.sagepub.com/content/46/1/3.full.pdf
Across Europe, the ... structured anti-Muslim racism.

This racism has translated to real harms for real people.

Abdell-Fattah states:
Abdel-Fattah, Randa. "The Stigmatisation of Muslims as 'could-be Terrorists' Has Produced a Toxic Social Order." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 09 Oct. 2015. Web. 17 Sept. 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/09/the-stigmatisation-of-muslims-as-could-be-terrorists-has-produced-a-toxic-social-order.
The stigmatisation of … on social media.

In order to prevent the power tactics of the nuclear hegemony, which is able to justify any war using nuclear power and to prevent the rhetorical marginalization that occurs with the political usage of nuclear de-proliferation policies, the nuclear hegemony must be deconstructed. As such the affirmative proposes that nuclear weapons should be prohibited for all hegemonic states. The existence of this nuclear zero would deter the hegemonic practices of the west.

Tutu states:
Tutu, Desmond. "Nuclear Weapons Must Be Eradicated for All Our Sakes." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 04 Mar. 2013. Web. 13 Sept .2016.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/04/nuclear-weapons-must-be-eradicated.
Until we overcome ...This must change.

The role of the judge is to act as a critical educator combating oppression—while obviously signing the ballot won’t make oppression disappear, voting for strategies to combat oppression in this round makes us better activists in the future.  

In order to promote this activist culture, the role of the ballot in this round is to vote for the best liberation strategy for the oppressed.

Giroux 13 (Henry, American scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, “Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University,” 29 October 2013, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19654-public-intellectuals-against-the-neoliberal-university)//ghs-VA
Increasingly, as universities ... world around them.