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"Hiroshima was devastated by an atomic bomb sixty years ago this summer. Including the effects of radiation poisoning, the five-year death total was over two hundred thousand, almost two thirds of the city's population.
In May the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) comes up for another five-year review by those countries that are party to it. The treaty regime is weaker than it has been since its entry into force in 1970. If this vital security instrument is to continue to be effective, it is highly important that the central bargain be revived by the NPT nuclear weapon states, led by Washington, at the review conference.
1962 saw predictions of as many as 25 to 30 nuclear weapons states with such weapons integrated into their arsenals by the end of the 1970s. This could have resulted in over forty such nations today, leaving nuclear weapons vulnerable to the hands of terrorists. But it did not happen. Today there are only two more states with nuclear weapon programmes than there were in 1970..."@en1
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