World context -- Policy evaluation -- Legal background -- Non-transfer and non-acquisition of nuclear weapons -- Safeguards on peaceful nuclear activities -- Sharing peaceful nuclear banefits -- Durability of the treaty -- Future implications -- Appendices : Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons -- United nations security council resolution on security assurances and United States declaration -- Treaty for the prohibition of nuclear weapons in Latin America -- Treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, outer space and under water -- International atomic energy agency safeguards system

1. Nuclear nonproliferation