US: Next Nuclear Treaty Review Likely to Be `Incredibly Difficult´
(WorldNews Europe)

The final preparatory meeting for next year´s review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ended Friday with deep divisions, and U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood said reaching agreement at the 2020 conference `will be an incredibly difficult task.` But he told the closing session of the two-week preparatory conference that `it is a task we cannot abandon.` The NPT is the world´s single most important pact on nuclear arms, credited with preventing their spread to dozens of nations since entering into force in 1970. It has succeeded in doing this via a grand global bargain:...