Every five years, officials from state parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, gather to review the operations of the treaty and make recommendations for further action to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
The latest such Review Conference wrapped up last week at U.N.
Headquarters without an agreed-upon outcome document—the third time in a row this has happened.
Disarmament analysts, civil society organizations and media outlets have uniformly painted this as a troubling failure.
