Roland Popp is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich.

Liviu Horovitz is a PhD Candidate at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich.

Andreas Wenger is Director of the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich.

1. Introduction: Small and Middle Powers in the Emergence of a Discriminatory Regime, Roland Popp & Andreas Wenger

PART I: Nuclear Nonproliferation and Alliance Cohesion

2. The Long Road to the NPT: From Superpower Collusion to Global Compromise, Roland Popp

3. In Favor of "Effective" and "Non-discriminatory" Non-Dissemination Policy: The FRG and the NPT Negotiation Process (1962-1966), Andreas Lutsch

4. The Birth of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy: The Netherlands and the NPT Negotiations, 1965-1966, Elmar Hellendoorn

5. "A Turning Point in Postwar Foreign Policy:" Italy and the NPT Negotiations, 1967-1969, Leopoldo Nuti

6. Nonproliferation under Pressure: The Nuclear Debate within the Warsaw Pact, 1965-1968, Laurien Crump-Gabreëls

PART II: Global and Regional Dynamics in Negotiating the NPT

7. Unusual Suspects Down Under: Australia's Choice for the Nonproliferation Treaty, Christine M. Leah

8. Between Idealism, Activism, and the Bomb: Why did India Reject the NPT?, A. Vinod Kumar

9. Non-Nuclear Japan? Sato, the NPT, and the US Nuclear Umbrella, Fintan Hoey

10. Mexican Nuclear Diplomacy, the Latin American Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, and the NPT Grand Bargain, 1962-1968, Jonathan Hunt

11. "A Glaring Defect in the System:" Nuclear Safeguards and the Invisibility of Technology, Jacob Darwin Hamblin

PART III: Conclusion

12. Nuclear Technology and Political Power in the Making of the Nuclear Order, Andreas Wenger & Liviu Horovitz

This book offers the first comprehensive and critical historical assessment of the negotiation of the NPT and the origins of the wider nonproliferation regime.