Arms Control
Apart from the United Nations Charter, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is the most widely adhered to treaty in existence, with 191 signatories. The NPT prohibits the dissemination and acquisition of nuclear weapons, while promoting their peaceful uses and eventual abolition. As the NPT celebrates fifty years, a project led by Dr Jonathan Hunt is informing debate over the original intentions of the framers, and the most effective way of ensuring those goals are honoured in the next fifty years.