Meanings of nuclear weapons states in English

China, Britain and France are the other three recognized nuclear weapons states.

The United States is one of five nuclear weapons states allowed to keep a nuclear arsenal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Received wisdom has it that only the leaders of the world's established nuclear weapons states are responsible guardians of their nations' nuclear arsenals.

Critics of the resolution said it failed to include mandatory provisions that would have required nuclear weapons states to take concrete disarmament steps.

This treaty's structure has come to imply that five nuclear weapons states can be "trusted" to refrain from launching nuclear attacks.

Ambassador Cheng Jingye, head of the Chinese delegation, said all nuclear weapons states should publicly undertake "not to seek permanent possession" of atomic bombs.