Opening Address at the Symposium on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.

The article reports on the opening address at the symposium on disarmament and non-proliferation, hosted in Academy House, Dublin, Ireland in March 2014. Topics discussed include the "Irish Resolutions" at the United Nations that requested the General Assembly to study the implications of the dissemination of nuclear weapons; the slow pace of nuclear disarmament till now; and why the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has always been a treaty in jeopardy.