Nuclear Non Proliferation Fact Sheet
The five countries in all of the world that own nuclear weapons they are, China, France, United Kingdom, Russia and the United States of the America.
"Cynics expected the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] to be abandoned. Some felt they were too ambitious .... Instead, the Goals have mobilized action and achieved remarkable results... We need to accelerate our work..., make the most of the next 1,000 days and meet the millennium promise." - Ban Ki - moon, (real Secretary General)
"Cynics expected the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] to be abandoned. Some felt they were too ambitious .... Instead, the Goals have mobilized action and achieved remarkable results... We need to accelerate our work..., make the most of the next 1,000 days and meet the millennium promise." - Ban Ki - moon, (real Secretary General)
- Three countries in the process of nuclear weapons are, India, Pakistan and North Korea. North Korea have openly tested and declared that they possess of nuclearweapons, while Israel has had a policy of opacity regarding its own nuclearweapons program. North Korea acceded to the treaty in 1985, but never came into compliance, and announced its withdrawal in 2003.
- North Korea ratified the treaty on December 12, 1985
- North Korea withdrawal ed from the treaty on January 10, 2003 following U.S.
- North Korea had once before announced withdrawal, on March 12, 1993, but suspended that notice before it came into effect.
- In 2007, reports from Washington suggested that the 2002 CIA reports stating that North Korea was developing an enriched uranium weapons program.
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- On 19 December 2003, Qaddafi announced that Libya would voluntarily eliminate all materials, equipment and programs that could lead to internationally proscribed weapons, including weapons of mass destruction and long-range ballistic missiles.
- South Africa is the only country that developed nuclear weapons by itself and later dismantled them – unlike the former Soviet states Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, which inherited nuclear weapons from the former USSR and also acceded to the NPT as non-nuclear weapon states.
- The South African Ambassador to the United States, Harry Schwarz signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In 1993 they got rid of their nuclear weapons.
- Libya had signed and ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty.