Last month, the world remembered the victims of us savagery in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (atomic bombs were thrown on the two cities in August 1945), yet there was the disturbing absence of the call for global denuclearisation from the international players or from the un. The overwhelming majority of nations that helped formulate the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (npt) in 1968 wanted to achieve total elimination of nuclear weapons as well as non-proliferation and peaceful use of nuclear energy. The desire for nuclear disarmament under strict international control was explicitly stated in the preamble of npt, and its operational Article vi obliges each contracting party to pursue negotiations on nuclear disarmament.

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