Five Ways the UK is Undermining the NPT

Posted: 3rd May 2021

The NPT has played an unparalleled
role in curtailing the nuclear arms race and it continues to play a role in
keeping the world safe. It is at the centre of international efforts to
stop the spread of nuclear weapons, to create a nuclear weapon free world,
and to enable access to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.” But the UK
has now taken steps which dangerously undermine this crucial treaty. In its
Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, the
UK government announced that it will increase the maximum size of its
nuclear arsenal and reduce the information it provides about it. Having
consistently committed itself over the past decade to reducing its
stockpile to a maximum of 180 warheads by the mid 2020s, the UK has now
raised this limit to 260, an increase of over 40%. At the same time, the UK
will no longer release operational stockpile, deployed warhead or deployed
missile numbers.

ICAN (accessed) 3rd May 2021

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