THIS year will be “make or break” for the international treaty designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, as the gulf between the “haves” and the “have-nots” grows ever wider.
So says a report by the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) based in London and Washington and the UK-based Oxford Research Group. They warn that without a breakthrough in May, when the 188 signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are due to meet “the NPT may be declared bust”.
Non-nuclear states argue that the weapons states, particularly the US, have failed to live up to their commitment to…
