NPT
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NPT
- (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Newport State Airport, which serves Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
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NPT
- Initialism of national pipe thread.
- Initialism of national pipe tapered.
- Initialism of nocturnal penile tumescence.
- Initialism of nuclear nonproliferation treaty.
- 2025 June 24, Matthew Chance, “Has Iran’s nuclear program been defeated? Key question unanswered as Israel ceasefire takes hold”, in CNN[1]:
- “The NPT is not able to protect us, so why a country like Iran, or other countries interested to have a peaceful nuclear energy, should rely on NPT,” the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told a conference in Istanbul on Sunday.
- 2025 June 29, Laura Sharman and Sophie Tanno, “UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’”, in CNN[2]:
- Iran’s parliament passed a bill halting cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, while the Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, also said that the country could also rethink its membership of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which prohibits signatories from developing nuclear weapons.