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Our Deep Divide Over Nuclear Disarmament

| Dec. 11, 2018

Pundits and scholars have warned about the impending collapse of the nuclear nonproliferation regime since the advent of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Fortunately, with the help of U.S. leadership, the nuclear nonproliferation regime has survived 50 years since the NPT opened for signature in 1968 and there are the same number of nuclear states today as there were 30 years ago (nine, having swapped South Africa for North Korea).

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For Academic Citation: Gibbons, Rebecca Davis.“Our Deep Divide Over Nuclear Disarmament.” The Hill, December 11, 2018.

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