While they could not change human nature, States parties to the NPT were still able, by working for the elimination of nuclear weapons, to ensure that those engines of war, mass-scale destruction and terror were unavailable to humankind.
尽管《不扩散条约》缔约国无法改变人的本性，但仍然能够通过努力消除核武器来确保人类无法得到这类恐怖的大规模毁灭性的战争机器。