proliferation of nuclear weapons

Iran's third option is the most drastic: the country could decide to walk away from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or N.P.T., the landmark agreement now signed by a hundred and ninety-one nations. The treaty, enacted in 1970, seeks to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and foster ...

To be sure, where nuclear proliferation issues are concerned, the US has a history of staking out a maximalist position publicly, but being more pragmatic in closed-door negotiations. For example, it tolerates the world's fastest-growing nuclear arsenal in Pakistan, even though that country, in Trump's words, ...

“The threat of the use, intentional or otherwise, of nuclear weapons is growing,” the UN's top representative for disarmament affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, told a preliminary review meeting of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The NPT, which was introduced at the height of the Cold War a half century ...

“This was a smart move by Kim,” Vipin Narang, an associate political science professor and nuclear proliferation expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in an email. “Although it largely formalizes previous pledges on the moratoria from last November and March, it still leaves a lot of wiggle ...

They might notice the irrationality of reigniting one nuclear weapons crisis while at the same time trying to reduce the threat of another. And perhaps they may come to see a more fundamental truth: that neither limited bombing nor full-scale war would end nuclear proliferation in either Iran or North Korea so much as make it ...

BOZEMAN — Retired Maj. Gen. Don Alston oversaw nuclear weapons at a variety of levels during the 34 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force. At the peak of his career, before retiring in 2012, he was in command of the entire U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile alert force, a job that included operating, ...

The End-User Review Committee, of Bureau of Industry and Security, US Department of Commerce has found Pakistani firms — Akhtar & Munir, Proficient Engineers and Pervaiz Commercial Trading Co. (PCTC) — involved in the proliferation of un-safeguarded nuclear activities that are contrary to the ...

Then-Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida attended the first preparatory committee meeting in Vienna last year, and called on the international community to strengthen efforts against nuclear proliferation. The second preparatory committee meeting is one of three to be held ahead of the 2020 NPT review ...

Another hostile step by the North, such as conducting another intercontinental ballistic missile test, would increase the chances of a US military response. Beyond the proliferation risk, those arguing for military action believe a nuclear North Korea would be emboldened to use conventional military forces ...

In the contemporary security environment one of the predominant challenges to the world peace and security is the spread of nuclear weapons. The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), since its inception, is considered as universal arms control agreement, which has been adhered to by all states except ...

Putin delivered a warning to the United States over its pursuit of anti-missile defense systems. "Efforts to contain Russia have failed, face it," he said. "Nobody listened to us. Well, listen to us now," Putin added, referring to accusations that Washington has been violating non-nuclear proliferation agreements ...

Just as President Donald Trump is leaning on Congress to "fix" the Iran nuclear deal to counter the possible proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, lawmakers may also be tasked with preventing the president from indirectly promoting the proliferation of weapons by another Gulf state.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after inspections conducted at nuclear facilities of Ukraine has confirmed that the country observes the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine has reported. The inspectorate said that the IAEA ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that the U.S. was still deploying "strategic arms" in Europe and was training European countries to use nuclear weapons, violating a major nuclear arms agreement called the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Lavrov said that nuclear disarmament was ...

Already, the Trump people had revived the notion of feasible nuclear war. No doubt our defense department will accept this impossibility. And our adolescent leader and his Korean counterpart maintain their stand-off, increasing the likelihood of mistaken intentions, accidents and irreversible blundering into ...

With so much attention on North Korea and its nuclear weapons program, we may be overlooking some other nuclear issues in other countries, like ... and Cooperation at Stanford University and emeritus director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, about nuclear proliferation and security around the world.