The Nonproliferation Treaty was supposed to lead to disarmament. Instead, it’s led to nuclear apartheid — and sooner or later, someone’s going set one off.
Nuclear Lies and Broken Promises
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Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Unwrapping Armageddon: The Erosion of Nuclear Arms Control
The White House appears to have a broader strategy to unwind over 50 years of agreements to control and limit nuclear weapons.
Why Iran Doesn’t Trust the International Community
International law expert Reza Nasri explains Iran’s distrust of international media, institutions, and NGOs.
Non-nuclear Weapons States Forget How Much Power the NPT Affords Them
The NPT — a treaty in name only.
Addressing the Nuclear Proliferation Challenge: Cooperation is Not Capitulation
Headline news about the threat of nuclear terrorism and the concerns about the nuclear capabilities and ambitions of Iran and North Korea regimes has led some Washington policy makers and pundits to conclude that the nuclear nonproliferation system has failed. A new strategy, they say, must be developed to replace it, or, perhaps, we must even accept that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable.
Getting Real(istic) About Nonproliferation
Daryl Kimball contends that I and my former boss, Ted Galen Carpenter (vice president of defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute), are "like the Bush policy team" because we advanced "the proposition that aggressive and erratic regimes with nuclear weapons are a threat to their neighbors, while nuclear arsenals in the hands of stable, democratic, U.S. allies are not."