Christopher Ford, special assistant to the president and NSC senior director for WMD and counterproliferation, delivered remarks regarding the U.S. position on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Although the Obama administration has pledged to formulate its nuclear policy around the concept of strategic stability, there is major disagreement on the meaning of concept and whether it is a sound basis for policy.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty may be the cornerstone of international law relating to nuclear weapons, but disagreements over its meaning abound.

NPT Challenges in 2010: Decoding Signals from the 2007 NPT PrepCom was chaired by Rebecca Johnson, Acronym Institute; Christopher Ford, U.S. Department of State; Ambassador Naela Gabr, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt;Ambassador Rüdiger Lüdeking, Federal Foreign Office, Germany.