Third, India did not sign the NPT as it might have banned the way of India getting a
nuclear weapon. As a sovereign state, it rejected the treaty and opened its pathway to nuclear technology, first in 1974 and again in 1998.
Moreover, 'convinced that nuclear disarmament and the total elimination of
nuclear weapons are the only absolute guarantee against the use or threat of
nuclear weapons,' the General Assembly designated 26 September as the 'International Day for the Total Elimination of
Nuclear Weapons", which is devoted to furthering the objective of the total elimination of
nuclear weapons, through the mobilization of international efforts.
Similarly, Israel is unwilling to accept constraints on its unacknowledged
nuclear weapon programme.
Many people use the day as an opportunity to share their perspective on the issue of
nuclear weapons and testing.
Another adverse factor preventing consensus at this year's review conference was the decreased cooperation among Russia, China and the United States on
nuclear weapons issues.
In 1991, the United States and Soviet Union both withdrew from deployment most and eliminated from their arsenals many of their nonstrategic
nuclear weapons. The United States now has approximately 760 nonstrategic
nuclear weapons, with around 200 deployed with aircraft in Europe and the remaining stored in the United States.
They consider themselves at the same time arbiters and direct beneficiaries of global norms around the acceptability of
nuclear weapons. And they are not alone in their recalcitrance.
Now in 21st century
nuclear weapons have the ability to destroy a city completely.