nonproliferation

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In recent days, South Korea’s top nuclear envoy called for more global urgency in the push to dismantle the Kim Jong Un regime’s atomic bombs, calling it the world’s “most pressing” nonproliferation challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

As the nonproliferation expert Andrea Stricker put it, the regime’s clear purpose was “to maintain the means to produce nuclear weapons fuel at a time of its choosing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Lee, the nonproliferation expert, said that the attack on Iran, which was the first real-world use of the United States’ bunker-buster bombs, may have been a boon to North Korea.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025

Everyone involved—the presidents, the diplomats who spent months negotiating the precise terms, and British officials, who later signed the deal as well—viewed it as mainly a measure to promote nuclear safety and nonproliferation.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2024

This latter agreement—the nonproliferation treaty—is now pending in the Senate and it has been pending there since last July.

From State of the Union Address by Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines)