But if the NPT review conference is not to end in tears, with all the accompanying risks for world order that failure would entail, the five nuclear-armed states that are NPT signatories can and must be prepared to bring more to the table than they have so far. Baby steps – improving their transparency in reporting, or agreeing on the meaning of technical terms like “strategic,” “deployed,” and “reserve” – will not begin to satisfy the many NPT countries that have been appalled by the recent re-emergence of Cold War mindsets and behavior.
但如果不想让NPT评估会议形同虚设，避免NPT失败给世界秩序所造成的危险，五大签署了NPT的有核国家可以也必须带来比目前做到的等多的东西。初步措施——改善报告透明度或统一“战略”、“部署”和“储备”等技术术语的意义——无法满足许多因为冷战思维和行为死灰复燃而胆战心惊的NPT国家。