There's something deeply unsettling about countries demanding others disarm while refusing to give up their own arsenal first -- that kind of hypocrisy makes it hard to trust the sincerity of the whole disarmament conversation.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty's Article VI already commits existing nuclear states to eventual disarmament in exchange for non-nuclear states forgoing acquisition, and unilateral first-disarmament proposals ignore that this mutual, phased structure is precisely what's kept the treaty's 190+ signatories on board for over 50 years.
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