Undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—It Didn’t Start With the Bush Administration

Foreign Policy In Focus/IPS, Stephen Zunes
June 1, 2005; Source link is no longer online
Most of the international community and arms control advocates here in the United States have correctly blamed the Bush administration for the failure of the recently completed review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In the course of the four-week meeting of representatives of the 188 countries which have signed and ratified the treaty, the United States refused to uphold its previous arms control pledges, blocked consideration of the establishment of a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East, refused to rule out U.S. nuclear attacks against non-nuclear states…