Henry Sokolski
Even though Iran is a member of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, it has relentlessly pursued the bomb. Yet that’s no reason to abandon the NPT, which has been remarkably effective at preventing proliferation among member states from South Korea to South Africa and Libya. When the NPT Review Conference begins on April 27, the Trump administration has an opportunity to toughen the treaty, which would enhance both the U.S. position vis-à-vis Iran and the broader nonproliferation regime.
President Trump knows the Pentagon may have to target Iran’s nuclear program again. To make whatever action he takes stick, not only with Tehran but with its neighbors and beyond, he should take a tough view of the NPT—one that would prevent nonnuclear states from making nuclear fuels and bombs.
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