Chris
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Napoleon's Nightingale said:It seems to me that a very nationalistic and irrational person thought the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was a good idea. The basic consensus is that the U.S. should be the only one allowed to have nukes and spy sattelittes which is, of course, utterly ridiculous. Can anyone here name one country that really obeyed the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty? Soveirgn nations have a right to defend themselves..period.
Chris said:Once again I don't have a problem in principle with any nation developing nuclear technology. But like any self respecting person I don't want some paranoid scum bag like Kim Jong Il getting nuclear weapons and using them to further manipulate the international community.
Napoleon's Nightingale said:Well unfortunatley we've opened a can of worms that can't ever be closed.
What I have wanted for a long time is a pact between all countries armed with nuclear weapons that would require two things. First, all stockpiles would be reduced to a very low level, no more than a couple hundred actual bombs or warheads per country (this is overly simplified).
gwynn said:As far as current nuclear stockpiles go, I doubt you would get either the US or Russia to agree to disarming down to a couple hundred warheads. Russia probably can't afford to pay for it and the US won't unless everyone else has even less. No other country would even be affected by such an agreement.
Napoleon's Nightingale said:Right. The only way for this to work is for the UN to buy the warheads from the states that have them and dissassemle them. It also needs to have some sort of insentive for the nations to agree to the terms of the treaty.
M14 Shooter said:So... in effect... to have the US buy them thru the UN and disassemble them.
M14 Shooter said:There are only two ways to keep countries with the intention of having nukes from getting them:
-Get them to decide they'd be better off without them;
M14 Shooter said:-Remove their ability to create them.
M14 Shooter said:The thing about stating that "country X should not have nukes" is that in order to make that statement stick, you have to be willing to back your position with force of some sort.
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