The second was the decision to send the yacht Fri on an epic voyage around the Pacific carrying the peace message to all nuclear weapons states.

In return, non weapons states should accept stronger safeguards designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

"It's more a question of drawing on the expertise of declared nuclear weapons states," he said, to expedite the analysis of the enormous declaration.

For some time the weapons states have maintained that the peaceful trade in peaceful atoms has been for purely peaceful purposes.

Of acknowledged nuclear weapons states, Britain scored best at 10th among the 32 countries.

These are called nuclear weapons states.

However, nations who sign the treaty, but are not nuclear weapons states, promise to not use their nuclear power plants to make nuclear weapons.

The number of weapons states, kept to single figures for so long, could jump dramatically in a generation.

The way things are now headed, it is only a matter of time before both North Korea and Iran become full-fledged nuclear weapons states.