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What is "non-proliferation"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
non-proliferation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
nuclear
▪ All that argues for the vigorous pursuit of nuclear non-proliferation.
▪ If nuclear non-proliferation - Hon. Members More, more.
▪ If nuclear non-proliferation is good enough for the rest of the world, why is not it good enough for us?
▪ We must also pursue nuclear non-proliferation as vigorously as we can.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All that argues for the vigorous pursuit of nuclear non-proliferation.
▪ Does non-proliferation apply to everyone else but not to us?
▪ If nuclear non-proliferation - Hon. Members More, more.
▪ If nuclear non-proliferation is good enough for the rest of the world, why is not it good enough for us?
▪ That is the most difficult and persistent area of non-proliferation.
▪ We must also pursue nuclear non-proliferation as vigorously as we can.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
non-proliferation

also nonproliferation, 1965, from non- + proliferation; originally in reference to nuclear weapons.

Wiktionary
non-proliferation

a. (context of a treaty etc English) leading to an end to the acquisition of nuclear weapons by countries that do not already have them

WordNet
non-proliferation

n. the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons); "they protested that the nonproliferation treaty was just a plot to maintain the hegemony of those who already had nuclear weapons"; "nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation are closely related goals" [syn: nonproliferation] [ant: proliferation, proliferation]

Usage examples of "non-proliferation".

Iran does not always take its international obligations seriously--it is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Chemical Weapons Convention and is taking an active role in the formulation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, yet it continues to have active programs in all of these areas.

On the same day, I named an old friend from the McGovern days, John Holum, to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and used the occasion to emphasize my nonproliferation agenda: ratification of the convention controlling chemical weapons, achieving a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, achieving permanent extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which expired in 1995, and fully funding the Nunn-Lugar program to secure and destroy Russian nuclear weapons and material.