A Critical Appraisal of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Abstract
This work focused ona critical appraisal of nuclear non Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Nuclear weapons proliferation is of major concern to the international community. As such many observers believe that the issue of nuclear proliferation is likely to be one of the most important issues facing the world today and it is also likely that nuclear proliferation is likely going to be the one issue to face the world for many years to come. Aside terrorism, nuclear proliferation is probably the single biggest political issue in the world today. This paper examined the workings of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).The work also Focus on the structural operations and the need for the strict adherence by all countries to its provisions and the articles of the treaty is also mentioned. The paper, thus, argues that the NPT, notwithstanding its global acceptability and compliance has some loopholes which are exploited by some countries. Also some countries are very reluctant in disarming or eliminating their stockpiles of nuclear weapons.It makes use of secondary sources due to the dearth of primarymaterials.Critical
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