Source: Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1995
After a year-long examination, a high-level study group of 12 American and 12 Japanese specialists presents a searching analysis of the key global and regional arms control and non-proliferation issues facing the U.S., Japan, and the international community. The central theme of the report is that proliferation can only be prevented if the existing nuclear powers accompany their non-proliferation efforts with parallel moves to reduce and eventually eliminate their nuclear weapons in accordance with Article Six of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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France has stopped clinging to notions of being a great power and is embracing the middle power moment. But Emmanuel Macron has his work cut out if he is to secure his country’s global standing before his term in office ends.
Rym Momtaz
