Bush Urges Tighter Controls to Stop Nuclear Arms

[rodbarnett]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) on Wednesday called for limiting nuclear technology to only those countries that forswear atomic weapons and said an intensive global effort is needed to stop a nuclear black market.

Bush, in a speech at the National Defense University, highlighted his national security credentials, a central theme of a re-election campaign that intends to focus on what Bush is doing to protect the United States following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Terrorists and terrorist states are in a race for weapons of mass murder, a race they must lose," Bush said.


Bush described the black market that was run by the father of Pakistan's atomic program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, as a dangerous precedent and gave details of how Khan's secret network was penetrated by U.S. and British intelligence.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&e=2&u=/nm/20040212/wl_nm/bush_proliferation_dc

[Enraged_Ape]

1. Ah, yes. Bush the space pResident didn't work out.

Neither did Bush the aircraft-carrier-landing "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" pResident.

Now it's Bush the disarmament pResident.

When of course, he's ripped up just about every nuclear weapons treaty ever written. And everyone knows it.

I think next week, he should try exposing his breast on national television. Then he can be the hip MTV pResident. Maybe that will work better for him.

[DemonFighterLives]

3. That's what I thought

Wasn't it one of the first things he did as pResident to drop out of the non-proliferation treaty and ABM treaty. Now three years later a dim bulb trys to light in his head. C-Span is talking about it now.
:freak:

[murielm99]

2. Dontcha mean

Nu-yah-lur? :kick:

[bif]

4. Excuse me George, who walked away from the ABM Treaty?

You hypocrate!

[bif]

5. Nu-cu-ler weapons

If you can't pronounce them, you shouldn't have your fingers on the button that can unlease them.

[Just Me]

6. His words have no weight since he withdrew from nonproliferation,...

,...treaties and his administration is bent upon new nukes development and building/spreading commercial fast breeder nuclear plants. As usual, his "speeches" are merely cover for underlying motivations.

[Fovea]

7. Then why did you gut Clinton's

effort to secure former soviet stockpiles of weapons?

Just another bit of Rovian spin.

[peekaloo]

8. so why did he back off of "Dr. Strangelove"?

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=312&row=0

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The Bush Administration has expressed shock at disclosures that Pakistan, our ally in the war on terror, has been running a nuclear secrets bazaar. In fact, according to the British news teams' sources within US intelligence agencies, shortly after President Bush's inauguration, his National Security Agency (NSA) effectively stymied the probe of Khan Research Laboratories, the Pakistani agency in charge of the bomb project. CIA and other agents told BBC they could not investigate the spread of “Islamic Bombs” through Pakistan because funding appeared to originate in Saudi Arabia.
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[Progress]

9. If he's so worried about terrorists...

...why did he lose track of all that nuclear material in Iraq? I'd like to know where all that ended up.