All of this has serious implications for the five-year review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), scheduled to begin in New York in late April. The NPT has been the single most crucial factor in limiting the world’s nuclear-armed states to the current nine, rather than the 20-30 widely feared a generation ago.
所有这些给定于4月底在纽约召开的核不扩散条约（NPT）五年评估会议形成了严重影响。NPT是将世界有核国家数量限制在当前的九个，而不是一代人之前人们普遍担心的20—30个的唯一最重要的原因。但如今，NPT的信誉命悬一线。