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.
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.
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.
It has never harmed or called into question the relevance or usefulness of the NPT's international non-proliferation agenda.
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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So NPT holds the patent to something that's very sort of broadly describes the kind of technology that BlackBerry uses.
If Israel's leaders were better informed, in the lead-up to the NPT conference they would have recognized a number of things.
There is wide agreement now that convincing others of the five's commitment to their NPT promises requires movement on several fronts.
In return, Washington wants movement to get all NPT members to agree on more intrusive inspection measures which would allow unannounced inspections.
The results will be presented to an NPT preparatory meeting in 2009.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is the single most important legal tool that the world has to try to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
NPT, and for the Middle East to be declared a nuclear-free zone.
Far from shoring up the NPT regime, moreover, creating a new comprehensive test ban arms control agenda might well serve to undermine it.
NPT, which bans such help, direct or indirect, to any country not recognised as a nuclear power by the treaty (and India isn't).
This is all done in strict compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and with IAEA rules and under permanent and quite tough IAEA control.
And to have a commitment to return the materials and the technology would help reduce the break-out potential that is inherent in the NPT today.
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