Greenpeace says the joint statement by the five nuclear weapons states to attempt to allay the concerns of non-nuclear states is “a lame attempt to excuse the inexcusable.” Lasst week’s conference by signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT) on progress toward halting the nuclear threat reminded the nuclear weapons states that the NNPT obligated them to take meaningful steps toward disarmament. Even with the stockpile reductions by the US and Russia since the “end of the Cold War”, arsenals are massively larger than when the 1970 treaty was enacted. Had you stopped being concerned about disarmament issues?