Global reluctance towards nuclear denuclearization as UN hold talks

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In October, Security Council members alongside Australia, Germany, Japan, Norway, and South Korea voted against a UN resolution to launch treaty negotiations.
Deterrence, or the threat of nuclear retaliation to avert enemy attack, has been a staple of international security policy since the Cold War.
Washington believes an outright weapons ban would be "fundamentally at odds with NATO`s basic policies on nuclear deterrence," as it outlined in an October letter to NATO members.
Instead, a gradual reduction of nuclear forces remains the only path to eventual disarmament, the U.
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stipulates.
But visibly absent will be Security Council members U.
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, U.
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, Canada, France, Russia, and China in addition to North Korea, which recently defended its right to nuclear arms following a series of recent ballistic missile launches.