Sentence examples for npt in from inspiring English sources

North Korea left the NPT in 2003, two years before announcing that it had the bomb and three years before testing one.Not all Israeli security officials agree with Mr Barak.

Therefore Britain could be assisting America to commit an act of aggression under the UN Charter, which could risk a major nuclear disaster, and doing so supposedly to prevent nuclear proliferation, with the real motive of making it possible for us to continue to break the NPT in alliance with America.

Writing in the Guardian, Zarif argues that by agreeing to the Vienna deal, titled the joint comprehensive plan of action, Iran was honouring the spirit of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), in which states without nuclear weapons promise not to acquire them.

CHINESE AND RUSSIAN P5 PARTNERS 6. (S) U/S Rood observed that P3 nuclear weapons arsenals had been reduced since signing the NPT in 1968, with the U.S. now at one-fourth of its stockpile at the peak of the Cold War, but meanwhile China is building up its nuclear arsenal and Russia is placing increasing emphasis on nuclear weapons in its doctrine.

When the prime minister says that "as we approach the 2010 Review Conference, I want us to renew and refresh for our times the grand global bargain, the covenant of hope between nations, at the heart of the treaty", it is clear he understands the vital importance of the NPT in preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons.

This was one of the most damaging proliferation acts of the nuclear age, since the same design was later passed by Pakistan to Libya and possibly Iran and others.But after China joined the NPT in 1992 and the NSG in 2004, it reined in such help, at least officially (some Chinese firms are still involved in illicit nuclear trade with several states).

Fig. 3 Total non-protein thiols (NPTs) in the roots.

In our conditions, rising Zn or Cd exposure progressively increased, with different efficiency, the level of NPTs in the roots (Fig. 3).

Since activation of thiol metabolism may potentially allow a greater proportion of Zn and Cd to be retained in roots through vacuolar sequestration, we measured the levels of non-protein thiols (NPTs) in the roots of plants exposed to the different combinations of the two metals.

We evaluate the spread of NPTs in our NICU.

A calibration curve was prepared using GSH (Sigma, MO, USA) to estimate NPTs in samples.