[wongarsu]

>The countries that have nuclear weapons, who do they ask to be allowed to keep them?

Well, the 5 official Nuclear Weapon States (with capital NWS) asked nicely with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which is signed by just about anyone. Not that there ever was a chance of them just giving up their nuclear weapons, but they did ask and the world said yes.

[blorgle]

Yeah. Signed by just about everyone, except for Israel, India and Pakistan.

Funny that this is never mentioned, Iran is an NPT signatory, Israel and India are not. Yet...

[cocoablazing]

The NPT doesn't say that. All nuclear weapon states are bound to seek complete disarmament, verified by the international community.