The reality is that there's, what, 21 nations that have nuclear power?

It is the first time that such an agreement has been concluded by the IAEA with a State that has nuclear weapons on its territory but has decided to become a non nuclear State.

Bangladesh has consciously and unconditionally opted to remain non nuclear.

The declaration on the State sovereignty of Ukraine proclaimed the intention of our State to become non nuclear in the future.

It welcomes the ratification by Ukraine, as a non nuclear State, of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

I would like to emphasize the special situation in which Ukraine found itself after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union the essence of that situation was that under the NPT Ukraine was neither a nuclear nor a non nuclear State.

Our status as a non nuclear, non military State has in no way limited that participation.

No nukes! No nukes!

We gave up our nuclear arms and voluntarily relinquished the rights of a nuclear successor to the Soviet Union.

Today, Pakistan, a near failed state on the verge of disintegration, possesses more nuclear warheads than India.

France is a permanent member of the Security Council of the UN, and a recognised nuclear state since 1960.

Nuclear Targets

India, as a responsible nuclear Power, is fully conscious of the immense responsibility that has come with the possession of advanced technology, both civilian and strategic.

Pakistan will not transfer nuclear weapons or weapons related material or technology to any foreign entity or State.

Thus, for the first time in the history of the international community, a sovereign State has voluntarily renounced a real opportunity to possess and develop nuclear potential.

1. The provisions of the Treaty do not fully apply to the unique situation which has come about as a result of the collapse of a nuclear State, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

In December 1993, the Parliament of our Republic ratified the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non nuclear State.

A Nuclear South Korea?

(ii) Any nuclear weapon State unless subject to applicable safeguards agreements concluded with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The Parliament subsequently adopted a number of documents that confirmed Ukraine apos s intention to adhere to the NPT as a non nuclear Power.

The entry of the Treaty into force in 1970 transformed the action of becoming a nuclear weapon State from one of national pride to a violation of international law and the law still prevails.

The situation today in no way justifies the dichotomy between nuclear States and non nuclear States.

The pot could be further sweetened by offers to relax existing sanctions and provide a security guarantee if Iran remains non nuclear.

If Ahmadinejad is president of a nuclear Iran, he is more likely to use the weapons in an adventurous manner.

China does not want a nuclear or belligerent North Korea, but it is even more concerned about a failed state collapsing on its border.

Until the nuclear weapons have been destroyed, it will be quite difficult to define the legal status of Ukraine as a classically nuclear or non nuclear State.

There are two nations, North Korea and Israel, that have nuclear weapons and don't have nuclear power at all.

The New Loose Nukes

CFAS nuclear strike stockpile.

on the Denuclearization of Africa

This is a nuclear proof facility.

Although the number of States with an additional protocol had grown from 9 to 64 since the 2000 Review Conference, 40 non nuclear weapon States remained without a comprehensive safeguards agreement.

First, Kim Jong il and his third son, Kim Jong un, may have become much more confident as a result of North Korea s emergence as a de facto nuclear state.

The nightmare of a nuclear Armageddon has been averted.

We have not deployed nuclear weapons.

And when they did, it was like a nuclear bomb went off in little Greenville.

And at first when I just showed it to you, look they are just this protein with some nucleic acid molecule in it.

This is the conventional nuclear fuel cycle.

However, exceptions could be made (except in the case of China) in case of invasion or any other attack against the nuclear Powers, their territory, their armed forces or their allies, or any State with which they have a security commitment, by a non nuclear weapon State in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon State .

The nuclear issue was originated by the United States, which has deployed nuclear weapons in south Korea and has made constant nuclear threats against us while creating nuclear suspicion.

The Russian Federation, as a nuclear weapon State, has strictly complied with its obligations under article I of the Treaty not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly.

I addressed arms reduction, including nuclear arms, and I proposed that by the year 2000 no country should have atomic weapons.

Adherence to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a non nuclear weapon State party has also imposed on the Government of Belarus substantial new expenses.

Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Ukraine.

It was Mike, the first thermonuclear bomb, in 1952.