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Article: Statement on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty.(Brief Article)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- March 13, 2000
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March 6, 2000
Thirty years ago--March 5, 1970--the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) entered into force. The countries that negotiated the NPT had clear and important goals. They wanted a safer, more secure world in which states not possessing nuclear weapons would foreswear their acquisition, and in which states with nuclear weapons would work toward eliminating them. They wanted an effective verification system to confirm these commitments. And they wanted to ensure that countries could use the atom peacefully to improve the lives of their people without spurring nuclear weapons proliferation.
On that day in 1970, 43 countries ...