Can the NPT, which is the centerpiece of the globalnon-proliferationeffort, be righted such that the world can take steps towardsObama's vision of a nuclear-free world?
Mr Olmert, meanwhile, accused Iran of instructing Mr Nasrallah to start a war to distract world attention from Iran's apparent effort to flout the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and build a nuclear bomb.
An immediate casualty was the effort to get all members of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), who have already promised not to seek the bomb, to sign up to an additional protocol on toughened safeguards.