nuclear activities have escaped

to pursue nuclear energy—by Israel, a nuclear-armed state whose own nuclear activities have escaped international scrutiny due to its refusal to join the treaty. The presence of nuclear-armed states outside the NPT has long undermined its credibility, which in recent years has also been damagedby the frustration of non-nuclear weapon states over the lack of disarmament progress among nuclear-armed states. The decision by the USA—an NPT depository state—to join Israel in the war on Iran exacerbates structural problems in a way that calls into question the NPT’s sustainability. สล็อต