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By Tilman Ruff, published 30/7/2008There is much that Australia can do to help create a world free of nuclear weapons.
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The UN Security Council has suggested to Iran that a promise from it to not go militarily nuclear could bring about a Middle-East free of nuclear destruction.
However none of the UN countries demanding finis’ to Iran’s possible plans for nuclear weaponry' have talked about asking Israel to destroy the 80 atomic warheads it now possesses.
Israel’s nukist position has also caused the UK to change its mind about its own NP promises, preferring to prepare itself with both America, and even Europeans to even make preemptive strikes.
So much easily it will be right now for Russia and China to press truly to try for the nuclear lead.
According to Professor Monbiot, the danger has been more heightened by Condoleeza Rice’s demand that other countries accept her plan to abide by NPT (27,28). The Treaty which grants to countries which conform to 27/28, the allowance for materials for nuclear power on favourable terms. But Monbiot regards this as a flawed incentive, the resultant spread of just civil nuclear programmes still making the spread of atomic military power much more likely.
Further, it is also Condoleeza Rice who insists that India should now have access to US nuclear materials, despite the fact that India’s militarist nuclear venture is still illegal – all for the sake of a few million dollars of US export orders, as Monbiot expresses.
Certainly over the years it is political scientists like Monbiot and Kissinger who have had the insight to purport how wrongful historical moves or halts by people in high places like the US shutting its mind to little Israel going nukisto way back, and even now letting Condoleeza Rice try to singly manage the more dangerous world politics rather than the UN?
Regards, BB, Buntine, WA