Sentence examples for nuclear weapons nations from inspiring English sources

And it would apply to the five officially recognized nuclear weapons nations, including the United States; they would be allowed to retain and use only their current inventories.

The rationale for the exchanges is that progress in science thrives on cross-pollination across borders, and in the case of nuclear weapons, nations are not averse to advertising their strength to potential enemies.

Signed in 1968, the NPT represents a bargain between the nuclear weapons nations and the non-nuclear weapons nations.

Studying the initial pace of actions, many analysts predicted that the North would use the distraction of the Iraq war to declare itself a nuclear weapons nation or even to conduct an underground bomb test.

The deletions, the diplomats said, had been done in consultation with the United States and other nuclear-weapons nations.

Until now, the United States and other nuclear-weapons nations have always insisted on qualifiers like the "eventual" elimination of arms.

So India's nuclear policies inevitably have consequences beyond your borders, eroding the barriers against the spread of nuclear weapons, discouraging nations that have chosen to forswear these weapons, encouraging others to keep their options open.

Critics are also quick to suggest that the language of the review, because it raised the possibility of using nuclear weapons against nations wielding biological or chemical weapons, would violate the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty's "negative" security pledge.

At a global conference in December last year, the so-called "humanitarian pledge", proposed by Austria, called for an international treaty banning nuclear weapons, asking nations to cooperate "in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons in light of their unacceptable humanitarian consequences".

The Obama administration's Nuclear Posture Review Report for the first time prohibits "first use" of nuclear weapons against nations complying with the nonproliferation treaty.

Nations want nuclear weapons because other nations have them.