As great a potential threat as nuclear weapons proliferation - and as demanding of a coordinated international response - is the threat from failing and unstable states.
Likewise, the administration's declaration that it would not unleash nukes on non-weapons states that lived by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was criticised either for being unwise (because it curtailed deterrence against biological and chemical weapons), or misleading (because it is so full of loopholes that it does not curtail deterrence much at all).
Other questions focused on the Alternative Investment Market, the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty, and the impact of the BP oil spill on British pensions.
During the past year, we made important strides, including the successful NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) Review Conference and the signing by the Russian Federation and the United States of a new START (Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms) treaty.
On the wider front, Barack Obama endorsed the call last year by four senior former US diplomats (including Henry Kissinger) for the US to aim for a nuclear weapons-free world, as it is supposed to be under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Several countries in the Middle East have refused to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention until Israel signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
But one of the new jobs that America envisages for the alliance has suddenly become more urgent than ever: stemming the proliferation of non-conventional weapons.
Administration officials testifying recently in hearings convened by the Joint Economic Committee and the House Government Operations Committee have conceded that insufficient attention has been given to the implications of East-West technology decontrol decisions for weapons proliferation from North to South.
As both the only nation to have used nuclear weapons, and as a strong proponent of non-proliferation, the United States has long embodied a stark but inevitable contradiction.
Unfortunately, the dissemination of nuclear weapons-relevant technology has been the result of an international agreement meant to prevent it: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
We need to lead a global effort against nuclear proliferation -- to keep the most dangerous weapons in the world out of the most dangerous hands in the world.
America can only find genuine security, in their view, in a world where international law carries greater weight, democracy and stable government is more widespread, weapons proliferation is controlled through international agreement and governments co-operate much more closely in monitoring and capturing the kind of terrorist groups which perpetrated this week's outrages.
Brazil is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 1998 as a non-nuclear weapons state.
The president said that the solutions will include preventing the production of more nuclear weapons, negotiating a new international treaty and strengthening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
And while we hold others to account, we will meet our own obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and strive for a world without nuclear weapons.
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The order invoked the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) and declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty calls on the signatories to move towards dismantling their nuclear weapons.
We helped to win the indefinite extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a powerful global barrier to the spread of nuclear weapons and their technology.
Why not instead first press on the non-proliferation front and seek strong sanctions against those who have used chemical weapons, who threaten to use them or who are developing them?
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Mr. SIDNEY DRELL (Stanford University): We have to convince many nations that we are serious about our commitment to the non-proliferation regime which calls on us to reduce our reliance on the weapons, reduce our arsenals, not to resume testing.
By upholding our own commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, we strengthen our global efforts to stop the spread of these weapons, and to ensure that other nations meet their own responsibilities.
Syria's chemical weapons program has been well known says Robert Einhorn, a former assistant secretary of state for non-proliferation issues now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
If, as seems likely, the CWC has the effect of vitiating the Australia Group mechanism, CW-relevant exports may be permitted even to dubious customers -- but it will be hard to contend that the effect on curbing proliferation of chemical weapons will be a positive one.
These include: Ambassador John Negroponte , the Director of National Intelligence, Tom Fingar , his deputy for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and Ambassador Kenneth Brill , Director of the National Counter-Proliferation Center - a critically important job for which he seems particularly ill-suited by temperament and past track record of reflexive acquiescence to various instances of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The five nuclear powers joined the nuclear non-proliferation treaty as five nuclear powers with a long-term aim of getting rid of those nuclear weapons.
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