Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

• The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: The Next 40 Years

Miles A. Pomper Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre Envisioning a World Free of Nuclear Weapons On the 40th anniversary of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), there is a resurgence of interest in achieving the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. Thanks in no small measure to the courage and commitment of former Senator Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), former secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, and former secretary of Defense William Perry, the prospects for reconciling aspiration with reality could be getting brighter.1 In the political space they have created, we might move beyond the false debate between the demand for overnight elimination and the demand that nuclear abolition must be contemporaneous with the abolition of all evil in the world. In a March 26, 2008,...

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 5, June 2008

• Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Delivers Remarks at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations

SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS,...

• Political Transcript Wire
• May 05, 2010

• The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: The Past 40 Years

Franz Matsch, Austria's permanent representative to the UN and Paul Robert Jolies, executive secretary of the 18-nation Preparatory Commission for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), sign a conference agreement to secure facilities for the first General Conference of the IAEA on July 24, 1957 in Vienna. The study also calculated that, beyond 10 years, the future costs of nuclear weapons programs would diminish and that several more states would likely be able to pursue nuclear weapons, especially if unrestricted testing continued.\n North Korea initially announced its intent to withdraw from the NPT a decade earlier following suspicions of NPT violations. The six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization yields an "initial actions" plan to implement Pyong-yang's Septemb...

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 5, June 2008
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• Looking Back: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Then and Now

It proposed that the United States turn over control of all its enriched uranium, including that in any nuclear weapons it had, to a new UN body (over which the United States and the other permanent members of the security Council would have a veto) and that all countries in the world should be prohibited from possessing their own nuclear weapons.

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 6, July 2008

• Joint Statement by the United States of America and India: Partnership for a Better World

Subjects: Afghanistan : Reconstruction and infrastructure development; Afghanistan : Terrorism; Agriculture : Food security initiative with India; Arms and munitions : Nuclear weapons and material :: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; Arms and munitions : Nuclear weapons and material :: Nonproliferation efforts; Civil rights : Women's rights and gender equality; Commerce, international : Global financial markets :: Stabilization efforts; Commerce, international : Group of Twenty (G-20) nations; Developing...

• Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents
• December 16, 2009

• Assessing 'Rights' Under Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Royce Schedules Thursday Oversight Hearing

News Advisory: BACKGROUND: The value of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is being increasingly questioned as countries such as Iran assert their "rights" to enrich uranium and reprocess plutonium. Many are asking what is the value of the Treaty if countries can acquire or develop the technology to produce fissile material for weapons legally within its framework, seemingly mocking its nonproliferation intent.

• U.S. Newswire
• March 01, 2006

• Living with Nuclear Outliers

The best way of dealing with North Korea and Iran may lie in a new version of the Cold War-era containment strategy. To President George W. Bush, North Korea and Iran were "rogue states," suggesting that their regimes were irredeemable. President Obama changed that to "outliers," a label that implied the path was open for Pyongyang and Tehran to rejoin the community of nations if they complied with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Their choice was integration or isolation.

• International Herald Tribune
• June 25, 2012

• Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), formally called the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, is the cornerstone...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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• Half Full or Half Empty? Realizing the Promise of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

Any desire, be it by the non-nuclear-weapon states or the nuclear-weapon states to address only one aspect of the NPT bargains-be it nuclear disarmament, nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, or universality-is a recipe for failure and should be guarded against.

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 36 Nbr. 10, December 2006

• Facing the failures of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty regime.

Each year the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) regime becomes more uncertain. In the past year alone: North Korea has become the fi...

• The Humanist
• Vol. 63 Nbr. 5, September 2003