For thinking people - US hypocrisy on nuclear weapons and disarmament .. 2

Lost opportunites
The Pugwash Conference held in 1995 in Hiroshima on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the advent of atomic weapons concluded, "the end of the cold war, and the beginning of deep reduction in the huge nuclear arsenals that the war spawned, have provided an unprecedented opportunity for the abolition of nuclear weapons as well as the abolition of war." Meeting again in Hiroshima in July 2005, the Pugwash Council observed, "The decade since 1995, when Pugwash last met in Hiroshima, has been one of missed opportunities and a marked deterioration in global security, not least regarding the nuclear threat. In that time, additional States have acquired nuclear weapons, there has been little tangible progress in nuclear disarmament, new nuclear weapons are being proposed, and military doctrines are being revised that place a greater reliance on the potential use of such weapons."


Failure of NPT
The Seventh Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), held in the spring of 2005 in New York, ended in a deadlock. The five original nuclear weapon states (the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China) showed themselves unwilling to take decisive action to implement their obligations under Article VI of the NPT to move decisively toward the irreversible elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

Failure of CTBT
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) has not entered into force, the U.S. and Russia need to accelerate and enlarge the reductions called for by the Moscow Treaty, and negotiations have yet to begin on a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) to eliminate production of weapons-grade Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) and plutonium.