Seven years ago, Brazil joined the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Standing in the gilded treaty room on the top floor of the U.S. Department of State, then-Foreign Minister Luiz Felipe Lampreia formally deposited the instrument of ratification before secretary of State Madeleine Albright and a small group of nonproliferation experts.
Calling Lampreia the "Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire of international diplomacy" for ratifying both the NPT and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Albright noted that Brazil's NPT accession would have been unthinkable 15 years earlier.
For Lampreia, his appearance in Foggy Bottom symbolized a 30-year odyssey since serving on Brazil's 1968 …
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