A Few Things To Note About The Worlds Nuclear Weapon History

Fact 1. The 5 nulcear weapon power states are: United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom, France

 Fact 2. Nuclear weapons spread instead of proliferate because so far nuclear weapons have proliferated only vertically as the major nuclear powers have added to their arsenals, says Kenneth N. Waltz. Is this so? Only a few countries contain the technology to create nuclear arsenals. If he was trying to distinct between spreading and proliferation, I would say they are one and the same. Countries that seem to have the technology bargain with it and yes! who would have thought that they would lay in the hands on those least expected to have arms of the sort. Take for example Iran finding an America missile head lost by America some months ago and they never realized this until the news was made public. (I'll do some research on the spread indicator)

 Fact 3. (Historical) "Membership grew to Twelve in the first fifty years of the nuclear age, and that number included three countries that suddenly found themselves in the nuclear military business as successor states to the Soviet Union".... Interesting

 Fact 4. (Historical) South Africa, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine liquidated their weapons. On this I read and you'll find that in 1968 close to 150 countries or more signed the Non-proliferation treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology and promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. This treaty was extended in 1995.

Fact 5. "Four non-parties to the treaty are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan and North Korea have openly tested and declared that they possess nuclear weapons, while Israel has had a policy of opacity regarding its own nuclear weapons program. North Korea acceded to the treaty in 1985, but never came into compliance, and announced its withdrawal in 2003" WiKi

Though, the book is not much old, they do not have Iran as part of this list. The dispute over whether Iran have nuclear weapon ability is unclear. They have never outright claim to not having any, but they also have falsely led the community into believing they do.... its a play on words or lack thereof.


Something you guys should be aware of is that the NPT is considered a bargain treaty. Meaning that the NPT non-nuclear states agree not to acquire weapons, the NPT nuclear states would provide them with the technology. Their aim is to non-proliferate, disarm, and the right to peaceful use.