“无核世界”构想是一种要求在限制核武器扩散的基础上,对已有核武器进行严格控制并逐步销毁,最终彻底消灭核武器,使国际社会回归到没有核武器的世界的政治主张.半个多世纪以来,“无核世界”构想在塑造全球政治安全环境、培育和平理念、推动核裁军方面发挥了重要作用.虽然当前“无核世界”构想尚难以实现,但在地区层面,无核区在一定意义上实现了“无核世界”构想.东南亚无核区是冷战后核扩散形势严峻的亚洲地区建立的首个无核区,对缓和亚洲地区的核扩散形势起到了积极的作用.本文认为,在国际政治现实下,无核区的建立必将成为实现无核世界的重要路径选择.
"A world free of nuclear weapons'is a political conception based on limiting nuclear proliferation, which strictly control and gradually destroyed existing nuclear weapons, and final totally eliminate nuclear weapons to make international society return to a world without nuclear weapons. For more than half a century, "a world free of nuclear weapons"eoneeption plays an important role in shaping global polities security environment, cultivating the concept of peace, and promoting nuclear disarmament. Although "a world free of nuclear weapons" is not achieved by now, nuclear free zone in the district level realized the conception in the certain significance. The Southeast Asia nuclear weapon free zone is the first nuclear free zone in Asia after the cold war in stern nuclear nonproliferation situation, which has played a positive role in easing Asia nuclear proliferation situation.