Article VI of the NPT is explicit on this point: “Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.” There have never been such negotiations. [...] But in 1996, the International Court of Justice, the highest legal authority in the world, ruled that nuclear disarmament is distinct from general and complete disarmament and that there is an obligation not only to pursue negotiations for nuclear disarmament but to conclude them. [...] The never-ending circle of twisted logic drives the nuclear arms race, which is at its highest level of peril since the end of the Cold War. [...] The new treaty recognizes the NPT as the “cornerstone” of nuclear disarmament. [...] The strength of the Treaty is that it raises the global norm against nuclear weapons and prepares an institutional path toward their elimination.
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