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Gustavo Zlauvinen, president-designate of the 2020 NPT Review Conference.

COVID-19 has given the 2020 NPT Review Conference a reprieve. Let’s take advantage of it

By Robert Einhorn | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

US President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, look on as German Chancellor Angela Merkel communes with French President Emmanuel Macron during ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.

Why Germany won’t build its own nuclear weapons and remains skeptical of a Eurodeterrent

By Oliver Meier | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Participation in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Countries in red or orange are non-members.

The NPT turns 50: Will it get to 60?

By Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Weapons

Can the nuclear nonproliferation regime be saved when arms control is collapsing?

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Lyndon Johnson addresses the UN General Assembly, 1968.

The NPT took effect 50 years ago; its purpose has been debated from the beginning

By Jonathan R. Hunt | Nuclear Weapons

US President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, look on as German Chancellor Angela Merkel communes with French President Emmanuel Macron during ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.

Why Germany won’t build its own nuclear weapons and remains skeptical of a Eurodeterrent

By Oliver Meier | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Can the nuclear nonproliferation regime be saved when arms control is collapsing?

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Mohammad Javad Zarif, in 2019

Iran’s impending exit from the NPT: A new nuclear crisis

By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Nader Entessar | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

artist's rendition of rows of nuclear missiles

Ditch the Bomb, not the NPT

By Sergio Duarte | Nuclear Weapons

US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a joint news conference at the White House this week. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Taking Erdogan’s critique of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty seriously

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

John Kerry at 2015 NPT Review Conference

No, it is not time to ditch the NPT

By Adam Scheinman | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Is it time to ditch the NPT?

By Joelien Pretorius, Tom Sauer | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

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