Npt Review Conference

Iran may have the last laugh since the month-long unwieldy conference on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty can only adopt resolutions or outcome documents by consensus.

The history of U.S. nuclear threat-making can actually help the Obama administration make its case both at home and abroad. The White House should capitalize on this legacy.

In a Huffington Post exclusive, Peace Action organizers of the "Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World" Conference at Riverside Church -- ...

Since the non-proliferation treaty took effect in 1970, almost all nuclear nations stopped building nuclear weapons. But even so, they've resisted honoring their full obligations under the NPT.

Obama proffered an attractive vision of a world without nuclear weapons, and a theory -- that if Russia and the U.S. reduce their stockpiles, other nations will be inspired to, too.

Central Europe has long been a place where empires from the East and West have come to settle their differences. It will be very important for Obama to use this trip to help unify Eastern and Western Europe against Moscow's efforts to sow divisions.

Delegates approved a document that seeks steps towards nuclear disarmament, bans nuclear testing and plans a controversial conference aimed at ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction -- and Israel of its atomic arsenal.

Germany, other Europeans and scientific groups are taking advantage of the nuclear non-proliferation conference to tell the US its estimated 200 tactical nuclear weapons on the continent are no longer needed.