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"The 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty has proven to be the most complicated and controversial of all arms control treaties, both in principle and in practice. Statements of nuclear-weapon States from the Cold War to the present, led by the United States, show a disproportionate prioritization of the non-proliferation pillar of the Treaty, and an unwarranted underprioritization of the civilian energy development and disarmament pillars of the treaty. This book argues that the way in which nuclear-weapon States have interpreted the Treaty has laid the legal foundation for a number of policies related to trade in civilian nuclear energy technologies and nuclear weapons disarmament. These policies circumscribe the rights of non-nuclear-weapon States under Article IV of the Treaty by imposing conditions on the supply of civilian nuclear technologies. They also provide for the renewal and maintenance, and in some cases further development, of the nuclear weapons arsenals of nuclear-weapon States. The book provides a legal analysis of this trend in treaty interpretation by nuclear-weapon States and the policies for which it has provided legal justification. It argues, through a close and systematic examination of the Treaty by reference to the rules of treaty interpretation found in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, that this disproportionate prioritization of the non-proliferation pillar of the Treaty leads to erroneous legal interpretations of the Treaty, prejudicing the legitimate legal interests of non-nuclear-weapon States"--

LAW / Military. --- LAW / International. --- LAW / General. --- Nuclear nonproliferation. --- Nuclear arms control. --- Nuclear energy --- Nuclear nonproliferation --- Nuclear arms control --- International Law --- Law, Politics & Government --- Treaties, International --- Law and legislation. --- Law and legislation --- Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Power resources --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants --- Nuclear weapons control --- Arms control --- Nuclear weapons --- Export of nuclear materials --- Export of nuclear technology --- International control of nuclear energy --- Nonproliferation, Nuclear --- Nuclear exports --- Nuclear proliferation --- Proliferation, Nuclear --- Nuclear-weapon-free zones --- International control --- Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons --- Atomsperrvertrag --- DNI︠A︡O --- Dogovor o nerasprostranenii i︠a︡dernogo oruzhii︠a︡ --- Fand chih ho wu chʻi fan yen tʻiao yüeh --- Kakuheiki fukakusan jōyaku --- Kakukakusan bōshi jōyaku --- Nonproliferation Treaty --- N.P.T. --- NPT --- Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty --- Traité sur la non-prolifération des armes nucléaires --- Trattato contro la proliferazione nucleare --- Vertrag über die Nichtverbreitung von Kernwaffen