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[TexasLawyer]

Friday, 27 May, 2005, 19:56 GMT 20:56 UK

Future tense as nuclear treaty stalls
By Paul Reynolds
World Affairs correspondent, BBC News website

The conference failed to solve some key issues of public concern
The failure by a review conference to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is no surprise given the competing interests and arguments.
But it leaves the world even more uncertain as to how to stop the spread of nuclear weapons on the one hand and to reduce their numbers on the other.

Two loopholes have not been closed. The first is that a member state can, under inspection, legally develop fuel enrichment technology to produce nuclear power.

But that know-how can then be used to make a nuclear bomb and all the country concerned then has to do is to leave the treaty.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4588423.stm