Forty Years After Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, U.S. Tops World in Nuke Arsenal

Forty years later there are 189 signatories to the treaty and 9 nuclear armed states in the world. The United States and Russia still have the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. The seven other nuclear powers are: China, France, the United Kingdom, and the only 4 non-signatories to the treaty: Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea.

I’m joined now by one of the country’s foremost researchers and authors on nuclear weapons and disarmament. Joseph Cirincione joined the Ploughshares Fund as President this spring. He has advised Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama and was previously the senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress and the director of nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and. His latest book is called “Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons.”

Joseph Cirincione, President of the Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation focused on nuclear weapons policy and conflict resolution. Previously, he was senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress and director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was also a staff member of the House Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations. his latest book is called “Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons”

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