The NPT was negotiated in 1968, with the United States becoming one of the first to sign.
But critics have pointed to India's waiver as a hollowing out of the NPT.
Not allowing countries to withdraw from the NPT - something North Korea has done recently.
But Iran has obligations as part of the NPT that it must live up to.
But the Egyptians have said under Morsi that they may drop their membership in the NPT.
After all, the NPT is dead after this if this nuclear deal does go through.
Thus if it ever pulled out of the NPT, Iran could quickly have such weapons ready.
Like Israel, neither joined the NPT so their bomb-building did not break its rules.
North Korea exploited its status as an NPT signatory to develop its nuclear arsenal.
Moreover, as a non-signatory to the NPT, Israel has the right to develop a nuclear program.
Iran on the other hand gave up that right when it joined the NPT regime.
It bears recalling that the primary goal of the NPT is to prevent nuclear proliferation.
India, which rejects the NPT and has built and tested bombs, will do neither.
You're not even a member of the (NPT) regime to tell us what to do.
But even some non-nuclear NPT members in better standing than the likes of Iran have been resisting.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a member of the IAEA and is committed to the NPT.
Under the NPT, Iran is allowed to enrich uranium as long as it is under IAEA auspices.
The IAEA is anxious to preserve its leading role in the investigation of possible violations of the NPT.
The run-up to next year's five-yearly NPT review conference offers a chance to bolster the fraying anti-proliferation regime.
Pressing Israel to join nuclear talks was Egypt's price for not ruining a big NPT review last month.
The NPT has been subverted by the very forces it was created to prevent from acquiring nuclear weapons.
NPT, nor the test-ban treaty arguing that the five nuclear powers must agree to give up their weapons first.
It has never harmed or called into question the relevance or usefulness of the NPT's international non-proliferation agenda.
Unless the NPT is fundamentally revised it will continue to serve as the primary instrument for nuclear proliferation.
Yet for years the world has been unable to agree that these nations' NPT obligations must be enforced.
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It can meet its obligations under the NPT and achieve the security and prosperity worthy of a great nation.
That includes accountability for those that break the rules -- otherwise the NPT is just words on a page.
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Today Iran exploits its status as an NPT signatory to develop nuclear weapons.
So NPT holds the patent to something that's very sort of broadly describes the kind of technology that BlackBerry uses.
Armed with this basic understanding of Obama's inclinations, Israel should have taken for granted that the NPT conference would target Israel.
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