{"id":1144,"date":"2026-05-28T11:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:56:41","slug":"nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of\u00a0Nuclear Weapons\u00a0(NPT) aims to\u00a0<strong>prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology,\u00a0<\/strong>to<strong>\u00a0foster the peaceful uses of nuclear energy<\/strong>, and to<strong>\u00a0further the goal of disarmament.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>It entered into force in\u00a0<strong>1970.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Its\u00a0<strong>states-parties<\/strong>\u00a0are classified into\u00a0<strong>two categories:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>nuclear-weapon states (NWS)<\/strong>\u2014nuclear weapon states that had manufactured and detonated a nuclear explosive device prior to 1 January 1967 (<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom<\/mark>)\u2014and\u00a0<strong>non-nuclear-weapon states (NNWS)<\/strong>.\u202f\u00a0\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Under the treaty, the\u00a0<strong>five NWS<\/strong>\u00a0commit to pursue\u00a0<strong>general and complete disarmament<\/strong>, while the<strong>\u00a0NNWS<\/strong>\u00a0agree to\u00a0<strong>forgo developing or\u00a0acquiring\u00a0nuclear weapons.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Treaty\u00a0represents\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>only binding commitment<\/strong>\u00a0in a multilateral treaty to the\u00a0<strong>goal of disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The NPT has 191 members;\u00a0<strong>India, Israel, Pakistan, and South Sudan\u00a0<\/strong>have not joined, and\u00a0<strong>North Korea<\/strong>\u00a0announced its withdrawal from the treaty in 2003.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty About<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}