Nuclear Energy in Malaysia?

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Countries with Nuclear Energy

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

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The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also Nuclear Non-Proliferation TreatyNPT or NNPT) is a treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, opened for signature on July 1, 1968. There are currently 189 countries party to the treaty, five of which have nuclear weapons: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and the People's Republic of China (the permanent members of the UN Security Council) .

Only four recognized sovereign states are not parties to the treaty: India, Israel, Pakistan,
North Korea. India and Pakistan both possess and have openly tested nuclear bombs. Israel has had a policy of opacity regarding its own nuclear weapons program. North Korea and acceded to the treaty, violated it, and later withdrew.

Israel began investigating the nuclear field just one year after its 1948 founding and with French support secretly began building a nuclear reactor and reprocessing plant in the late 1950s. Although Israel first built a nuclear weapon in 1967-68 it was not publicly confirmed from the inside until Mordechai Vanunu, a former Israeli nuclear technician, revealed details of the program to the British press in 1986. Israel is currently believed to possess between 75 to 200 nuclear warheads with the ability to deliver them by ground, aircraft, and submarine.^[1]

In 1996 the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 51/41 calling for the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East.^[100] Arab nations and annual conferences of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) repeatedly have called for application of IAEA safeguards and the creation of a nuclear-free Middle East. Arab nations have expressed their disgust that the United States practices a double standard in demanding Iran and Arab states refrain from having nuclear weapons programs, while ignoring Israel's program, as well as its failure to sign on to the NPT.^[101] According to a statement by the Arab League, Arab states will withdraw from the NPT if Israel acknowledges having nuclear weapons and then does not open its facilities to international inspection and destroy its arsenal.^[102]