Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues returned to the foreground of the international agenda with the objective of moving towards a world without nuclear weapons. Advances towards that goal, however, remained modest. Nuclear-weapon States (NWS) were still perceived by some non-nuclear weapons States (NNWS) as not making sufficient progress towards nuclear disarmament. Furthermore, the Conference on Disarmament (CD) as well as the United Nations Disarmament Commission (UNDC) also failed to advance from the stalemate that has been symptomatic of what some saw as a crisis of the nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime. At the same time, concerns continued over the potential proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Related Subject(s): Disarmament