Human Wrongs Watch
By Tony Robinson*
4 May 2015 (Pressenza)* – The 5-yearly cycle of reviewing the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty got underway last week at the United Nations in New York but not before civil society organizations had organized hundreds of events around the world and in the Big Apple, under the banner of the Peace and Planet Mobilisation, to raise awareness of what was about to happen and to put pressure on politicians and diplomats to make some headway in a process that is frankly speaking in a comatose state.
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Demonstrators at the Peace and Planet Mobilisation in New York on the 26th of April wave goodbye to nuclear weapons (Image by http://www.globalwave.org) | Source: Pressenza
The problem is this: 5 countries have nuclear weapons and are in the NPT, 4 countries have nuclear weapons and are outside of it, 185 countries don’t have their own nuclear weapons and are in the NPT (although some Nato countries host US weapons in breach of articles 1 and 2 of the treaty).
