| Titre : | Nuclear Weapons after the 2010 NPT review conference |
| Auteurs : | Anthony Ian ; Camille Grand ; Lukasz Kulesa ; Christain Mölling ; Mark Smith |
| Type de document : | Electronic document |
| Editeur : | Paris : European Union Institute for Security Studies |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-92-9198-165-6 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
Keywords : Nuclear Weapons; non-proliferation; EU, European Union; 2010 Revcon; Nuclear governance; South Africa; NPT; Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; nuclear zero; Abstract : The eighth review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will be held in New York between 3 and 28 May 2010. Three Preparatory Committee sessions, held in 2007, 2008 and 2009, laid the groundwork for the agenda and the areas of the treaty regime the States Parties wish to develop further. The NPT remains a central pillar in the global quest to prevent a destabilising armament competition and nuclear war. Negotiation of the treaty was concluded in 1968 and the document entered into force on 5 March 1970. It was constructed around three interlocking principles, namely nuclear non-proliferation, cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and nuclear disarmament. They make up the grand bargain in the NPT: the five nuclear weapon states (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States) commit themselves to disarmament while the non-nuclear weapon states pledge not to acquire these weapons, in return for which they receive access to nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes. As of March 2010, 189 states are party to the NPT, making it the most universal of all disarmament and arms control agreements. Just three countries have remained on the outside: India, Israel and Pakistan. However, each one of them is armed with nuclear weapons or widely believed to have stockpiled them. North Korea is the only country to have withdrawn from the NPT. .../... |
| En ligne : | http://units.mil.intra/sites/UBDef-BUDef/Periodiques/301975R.pdf |
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