{"id":104434,"date":"2020-03-29T03:43:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T10:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/nuclear-proliferation-treaty-troubles-remain-unaddressed-amid-a-global-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-03-29T03:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T10:43:27","slug":"nuclear-proliferation-treaty-troubles-remain-unaddressed-amid-a-global-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/nuclear-proliferation-treaty-troubles-remain-unaddressed-amid-a-global-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Proliferation Treaty Troubles Remain Unaddressed Amid a Global Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nuclear-proliferation-treaty-troubles-remain-unaddressed-amid-a-global-pandemic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is vital that would-be bombmakers be disabused of any notion that they could evade tough international sanctions. We need a country-neutral, reasonably predictable, more-or-less automatic sanction regime that puts all countries on notice, even friends of the powerful.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/profile\/victor-gilinsky\">Victor Gilinsky<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/profile\/henry-sokolski\">Henry Sokolski<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as we\u2019ve had to discard business-as-usual thinking to deal with the current worldwide health emergency; it\u2019s time to get serious about the spread of nuclear weapons. It doesn\u2019t have the immediacy of the coronavirus, but it will last a lot longer and is no less threatening. In particular, we need to fortify the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which is fifty years old this year and badly needs fixing. The April 2020 Review Conference will likely be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indepthnews.net\/index.php\/global-governance\/un-insider\/3351-relentless-spread-of-coronavirus-obliges-postponing-the-2020-npt-review-to-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener noreferrer\">postponed<\/a>, which provides time to develop something more than the usual charade of incremental proposals that nibble at the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is vital that would-be bombmakers be disabused of any notion that they could evade tough international sanctions. We need a country-neutral, reasonably predictable, more-or-less automatic sanction regime that puts all countries on notice, even friends of the powerful. By Victor Gilinsky Henry Sokolski Just as we\u2019ve had to discard business-as-usual thinking to deal with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,5,1495,9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-geopolitics","category-health","category-military","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}