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China, Britain and France are the other three recognized nuclearweaponsstates.
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The United States is one of five nuclearweaponsstates allowed to keep a nuclear arsenal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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Received wisdom has it that only the leaders of the world's established nuclearweaponsstates are responsible guardians of their nations' nuclear arsenals.
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Critics of the resolution said it failed to include mandatory provisions that would have required nuclearweaponsstates to take concrete disarmament steps.
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This treaty's structure has come to imply that five nuclearweaponsstates can be "trusted" to refrain from launching nuclear attacks.
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Ambassador Cheng Jingye, head of the Chinese delegation, said all nuclearweaponsstates should publicly undertake "not to seek permanent possession" of atomic bombs.