About the latest resolution of the Security Council UN asking the world's nations to work for a world without atomic bombs , it is worth wondering whether is that nuclear disarmament can be a reality next or perhaps a mere utopia.
According to an article published in the newspaper El Comercio , there are currently about 24,000 nuclear weapons in the world, most of them obviously held by the United States and Russia, of this total , 2.000 would be ready to be operated at any time, but as you know, enough only a small percentage of these weapons to destroy the entire planet.
In summary, the ranking of countries that possess nuclear warheads is as follows:
1 - United States 7.900.
2 - 4.138 Russia.
3 - China 400.
4 - France 300.
5 - United Kingdom 200.
6 - Israel 100 to 200.
7 - Pakistan 60.
8 - India from 50 to 60.
Notably, of these countries Pakistan, India and Israel, not part of the 189 countries that have signed the Treaty Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) of the UN.
should also include the countries that allegedly in the process of nuclear weapons Iran, North Korea and Syria . Of these only Syria is in the NPT , North Korea signed the pact but, revoked his signature on the 2003 and Iran since 2004, is suspected by some powers like the U.S. and Japan, to carry a secret nuclear weapons program.
Given these data, the question of concern to analysts and experts is whether the future can stop this proliferation of nuclear weapons or, conversely, decrease with treaties, sanctions and other international mechanisms.
For some, the answer is in the military sought from countries like Iran, North Korea and Syria, while others say the ball is in the power range as the United States and Russia, which should set an example and start a bilateral reduction of nuclear weapons. Anyway
in May 2010 will be held the Conference NPT Review , and there we have perhaps a closer response to the question posed at the beginning of the article: nuclear disarmament is an achievable goal or a simple utopia ? We have to wait next year to find out.
Here I give you the complete list of members the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) UN :
Germany
Afghanistan Albania Andorra
Angola Antigua and Barbuda
Saudi Arabia Algeria Argentina
Armenia Australia Austria
Azerbaijan Bahamas
Bahrain Bangladesh
Barbados Belgium Belize
Belarus Benin Bolivia
Bosnia-Herzegovina Botswana
Brazil Brunei Bulgaria
Burkina Faso Burundi
Bhutan Cape Verde Cambodia
Cameroon Canada
Ciudad del Vaticano
Chad Chile China
Cyprus Colombia Comoros
South Korea Ivory Coast Costa Rica
Croatia Cuba Denmark
Dominica
Ecuador Egypt El Salvador
United Arab Emirates Eritrea Slovakia
Slovenia Spain
Federated States of Micronesia United States
Estonia Ethiopia
Fiji Philippines Finland
France Gabon Gambia
Georgia Ghana Greece
Grenada Guatemala Guyana
Guinea Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea
Honduras Hungary
Indonesia Iran Iraq
Ireland
Marshall Islands Solomon Islands
Iceland Italy Jamaica
Japón Jordan Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan
Laos Latvia Lesotho
Lebanon Liberia Libya
Liechtenstein Lithuania
Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi
Malaysia Maldives Mali
Malta Mauritania Morocco
Mauricio
Mexico Moldova Monaco
Mongolia
Mozambique Myanmar
Namibia Nauru
Nepal Nicaragua Niger
Nigeria Norway Oman
New Zealand
Countries Bajo
Palau Panama
Papua New Guinea Paraguay
Peru Poland Portugal
Qatar
UK
Central African Republic
Czech Republic
Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo
Dominican Republic
Rwanda
Romania
Russia
Samoa
San Cristóbal and Nieves
San Marino
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Santa Luzia
Sao Tome and Principe Senegal
Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles
Sierra Leone Singapore
Syria Somalia Sri Lanka
Africa
Sudan Sweden Switzerland
Suriname Swaziland
Thailand Tanzania Tajikistan
East Timor
Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan
Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine
Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu
Venezuela Vietnam Yemen
Djibouti Zambia Zimbabwe
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