Article VI of the NPT: “Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control”
Update / October 2017:
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican).
The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.
July 2017
Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons
The Nuclear Weapons Treaty @ the United Nations / July 2017
- http://www.undocs.org/en/a/conf.229/2017/L.3/Rev.1
- http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_5July2017.html
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Nuclear_Nonproliferation
In the US, both major political parties are jointly pushing a trillion-dollar plus nuclear “modernization” program with a next generation of strategic/tactical systems and more “usable” weapons that will expand not reduce the nuclear stockpile. The NPT has been set aside and a more dangerous game is underway. William Perry, former US Defense Secretary and an expert who is as aware as anyone of the risks and realities, is raising an alarm along with many others who are cognizant and warning of escalating danger.
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