他缔约国一道谴责使用核武器的行为。然而，尽管《条约》的缔约国和非缔约国都呼吁禁止核武器，但令人担忧的是，所有核武器国家仍在进行广泛的现代化方案，以维护其核武器导弹防御系统。这引发了一场新的核军备竞赛。
However, despite the calls from State and non-State parties to the Treaty for banning nuclear weapons, it is worrisome that all nuclear-armed States are still engaged in extensive modernization programmes aimed at maintaining their nuclear-weapon missile defence systems. That is sparking a new nuclear arms race.