IAEA Director: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Under Great Pressure

This came according to what was reported by the Financial Times, which continued, quoting Grossi, that tensions between the United States, Russia and China, as well as the conflict in the Middle East, are putting unprecedented pressure on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed in 1968, which aims to limit the spread of nuclear arsenals in the world.

Grossi told the newspaper that the global nuclear non-proliferation regime is under greater pressure than at any time since the end of the Cold War, as the world’s major powers today debate whether to develop nuclear weapons.

Melissa Parke, president of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), said last June that the G7 was pursuing a hypocritical and reckless policy on nuclear weapons, blaming Russia and China for their own violations.

Park added that, contrary to all the promises made at the G7 in Japan 2023, France, Britain and the United States have continued to modernize their nuclear arsenals and increase their spending on nuclear weapons, while Italy and Germany are in the process of accepting a new generation of nuclear bombs from the United States, purchasing new aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons, and training their pilots to use them.

The 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which entered into force in 1970, stipulated that only five states possessed nuclear weapons (the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, France, and China), and prohibited the emergence of new nuclear powers. The five nuclear states pledged not to transfer nuclear weapons to other states, or to assist in their creation, and the parties to the treaty pledged not to accept or create an atomic bomb.

Source: Financial Times