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these neo-con MORANS are able to manipulate the media, general public and world opinion in such a way that it threatens to undermine the NPT itself. By seeking to prosecute Iran for exercising their rights as a signatory nation of the NPT, the US is attempting to CHANGE the rules of the both the NPT and CTBT for their OWN NEFARIOUS PURPOSES.
They have NOT ONE WHIT of evidence that Iran is pursuing a so called "dual use programme," yet they have succeeded in bullying enough IAEA members to attempt a vote to send the matter to the UNSC. They continue to argue that if Iran obtains enriched nuclear material, they will manufacture a weapon and MOST CERTAINLY use it against Israel or the USA. Personally, I can think of only one nation that has been batshit-crazy enough to use a nuclear weapon against another nation UNNECESSARILY, and that nation is the US of Fuckin'-A.
Read "Rebuilding America's Defenses" by PNAC. The USA is SICK of the current status quo and wants to start building better, bigger and smarter nuclear bombs, but is hamstrung by the terms of the CTBT, NPT and IAEA regulations:
"…significant reductions in U.S. nuclear forces might well have unforeseen consequences that lessen rather than enhance the security of the United States and its allies" (p. 8).
"Over the past decade, efforts to design and build effective missile defenses have been ill-conceived and underfunded, and the Clinton Administration has proposed deep reductions in U.S. nuclear forces without sufficient analysis of the changing global nuclear balance of forces" (p. 6).
"Rather than maintain and improve America’s nuclear deterrent, the Clinton Administration has put its faith in new arms control measures, most notably by signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The treaty proposed a new multilateral regime, consisting of some 150 states, whose principal effect would be to constrain America's unique role in providing the global nuclear umbrella that helps to keep states like Japan and South Korea from developing the weapons that are well within their scientific capability, while doing little to stem nuclear weapons proliferation. Although the Senate refused to ratify the treaty, the administration continues to abide by its basic strictures. And while it may make sense to continue the current moratorium on nuclear testing for the moment – since it would take a number of years to refurbish the neglected testing infrastructure in any case – ultimately this is an untenable situation. If the United States is to have a nuclear deterrent that is both effective and safe, it will need to test." (pp. 7-8).
"…of all the elements of U.S. military force posture, perhaps none is more in need of reevaluation than America’s nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons remain a critical component of American military power but it is unclear whether the current U.S. nuclear arsenal is well-suited to the emerging post-Cold War world. Today’s strategic calculus encompasses more factors than just the balance of terror between the United States and Russia. U.S. nuclear force planning and related arms control policies must take account of a larger set of variables than in the past, including the growing number of small nuclear arsenals – from North Korea to Pakistan to, perhaps soon, Iran and Iraq – and a modernized and expanded Chinese nuclear force. Moreover, there is a question about the role nuclear weapons should play in deterring the use of other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, such as chemical and biological, with the U.S. having foresworn those weapons’ development and use. It addition, there may be a need to develop a new family of nuclear weapons designed to address new sets of military requirements, such as would be required in targeting the very deep under-ground, hardened bunkers that are being built by many of our potential adversaries" (p. 8).
"But what should finally drive the size and character of our nuclear forces is not numerical parity with Russian capabilities but maintaining American strategic superiority – and, with that superiority, a capability to deter possible hostile coalitions of nuclear powers. U.S. nuclear superiority is nothing to be ashamed of; rather, it will be an essential element in preserving American leadership in a more complex and chaotic world" (p. 8).
The current manufactured "crisis" of Iran's ambition to build a PEACEFUL nuclear energy program is a "double-edged sword" for the neo-cons, at once both disabling any LEGITIMATE desire to obtain or enlarge nuclear energy programmes by any NPT signatory as well as serving as a PRETEXT for changing the ways in which the USA abides by the CTBT and NPT.
Wake the fuck up, world.
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