After the treaty was signed, the international community's interest to agree to rules that had been accepted created a source of safety. The current world has termed the treaty as a regime. In the U.S. context, their aim is to provide security for their citizens because of the nuclear weapons threat. The treaty has been signed by more than 180 states worldwide. In order to ensure that there is safety while nations continue with their nuclear program, a separate organization was created to oversee the process of monitoring such activities: the International Energy Atomic Agency (IAEA). U.S. As the hegemonic state has the power to protect other nations from harm: other nations view this as a mutual benefit. While the U.S. gain more power plus safety from states that are within the NPT treaty, smaller states are convinced instead of investing in nuclear programs for safety, to look up to U.S. For protection (Gallacher, Blacker & Bellany, 2005).

Many states view this mutual benefit as a substantial gain even in anarchic unstable world. However, within the NPT there is a loophole in subsection 2 of article 4 of the treaty. This loophole states that all the nations in the treaty should undertake have a right to participate fully in the exchange of materials, equipment, and scientific and technological information in peaceful use of nuclear weapons. The section permits member states to develop nuclear material as long as its use is peaceful and production sourced from clean energy (Kessler, 2005).

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The possibility of nuclear weapons is a weakness because many nations will try to their best to develop their own weapons. The safety measures put in place by IAEA were to safeguard and limit nuclear weapons from spreading into the international community. U.S. controls the way it connects with other countries, and this is evident through the transfers made for safe nuclear technology through IAEA. The U.S. has ensured security of its people through superior firepower and control over other nations through establishing international agreements (Gallacher, Blacker & Bellany, 2005).
The NPT Treaty regime has reached an international level: member states make rules guaranteeing safety from threats of nuclear war for many nations. The U.S. formulated the NPT permitting IAEA the protection necessary in ensuring that different states developing nuclear weapons and technology are monitored. Nearly all the nations have accepted the terms of mutual protection from U.S. (Forsberg, 2005).

References

Forsberg, R. (2005). Nonproliferation Primer: Preventing the Spread of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons. Michigan: MIT Press

Gallacher, J, Blacker, C. & Bellany, I. (2005). The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. New York:

Routledge

Kessler, J. (2005). Verifying Nonproliferation Treaties: Obligation, Process, and Sovereignty.

California: Government Printing Office.