Council for a Livable World -- The Chain Reaction || Blog

Council for a Livable World -- The Chain Reaction || Blog

Today, there are nine states with nuclear explosive devices, with the addition of the three non-members of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Israel, India and Pakistan; and the one country that has withdrawn from the Treaty, North Korea. This is a far lower number than the 25 states that President Kennedy feared would possess nuclear weapons as early as the 1970s. Yet globalization of information and technology has resulted in a situation similar to that confronted by President Kennedy, with the potential for many nations to reach a “breakout” capability to produce nuclear weapons on very short notice. We have come full cycle, with the need once again for “concerted and intensified efforts” to strengthen the non-proliferation regime.