The nuclear today

RED:Five "nuclear weapons states" from the NPT (USA, Russia, UK, France, China)

DARK YELLOW:Other known nuclear powers (India, Pakistan, North Korea)

LIGHT YELLOW: States suspected of having possession of, or suspected of being in the process of developing, nuclear weapons (Israel, Iran, Ukraine)

PINK: States which at one point had nuclear weapons and/or nuclear weapons research programs (Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Iraq, Japan, Libya, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan).

the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1970)

The objective of the treaty is to limit at most the number of the nuclear powers, by “forbidding any State endowed with nuclear weapons to transfer nuclear weapons or other explosive nuclear device and to help, neither to encourage, nor to incite in no way a State not endowed with nuclear weapons to make it or to acquire it. Besides, any State not endowed with nuclear weapons makes a commitment to accept of whoever it is the transfer of nuclear weapons and not to make them nor to acquire them. “

Major powers, which base their safety on them nuclear weapons and which continue to modernize their arsenal, have they the right to oppose that the other countries want to follow their example? These countries, besides weaker, do not they have too the right for the deterrence? There is an intellectual contradiction concerning the TNP, to allow making what we forbid to the others.

Furthermore, certain countries did not sign this treaty. Its rules do not thus apply to them. They are not official, but unofficial nuclear powers, and did not thus violate the international law by being equipped with an atomic arsenal