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As we all know, negotiations over a nuclear non-proliferation treaty faltered in the 1960s with the proposed nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty being stillborn. Now, here is a list of countries with nuclear weapons with their first nuclear weapons test in parenthesis:

United States of America (1945)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1949)
United Kingdom (1952)
Republic of France (1960)
People's Republic of China (1964)
Republic of India (1972)
Republic of Argentina (1978)
Republic of South Africa (1979)
State of Israel (1980)
Shahdom of Iran (1984)
Islamic Republic of Arabia (1986) (OOC: Bad things happened to the Saudis)
Federative Republic of Brazil (1987)
Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1989)
United Arab Republic (1991)
Republic of China (1996)
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1998)
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (2000)
State of Japan (2001)
Republic of Vietnam (2002)
Republic of Korea (2004)
Republic of Turkey (2009)
Republic of Indonesia (2014)

With 22 countries in possession of nuclear weapons and six more countries (Ethiopia, Chile, the Philippines, Burma, Germany, and Spain) developing nuclear weapons. I ask you, what if the NPT wasn't stillborn? Would the world be more stable or less stable in such a scenario?
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