♤ More countries have ratified the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament

agreement, a testament to the Treaty’s significance.

♤ India along with Israel and Pakistan are the only non signatories, nuclear weapons states. North Korea had originally signed the treaty but later withdrew from it.

♤ The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

♤ The NPT's rests on three pillars: