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Addressing the NPT’s Midlife Crisis

Author: Daryl Kimball

In: Arms Control Today, 2020

In advance of the NPT Review Conference due in April 2020 (since postponed due to Civid-19)  Kimball comments on the dangers to the whole system of arms control and the worsening relations between nuclear weapon states. He suggests an action plan for the NPT conference.

See also: Rauf, Tariq, ‘The NPT at 50: Perish or Survive?’, Arms Control Today, March 2020.

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2020-03/features/npt-50-perish-survive

Discusses the division between the view of the NPT held by nuclear weapon states who adhere to the treaty and the view of 160 non-nuclear weapon states who are parties to the NPT, who seek reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons.  He also discusses the 1995 resolution on a Middle Eastern nuclear weapon free zone, which has become a significant source of disagreement.

Available online at:

https://www.armscontrol.org/anout/Daryl-Kimball