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In the cyber field, Russia proposed a UN treaty to ban electronic and information weapons (including propaganda) in 1999.
Even so, Russia and China continue to take a much more lenient approach to Iran than Europe and the US have since the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report in November 2011 described in detail Iran’s activities in pursuing the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
India is certainly alarmed at the possibility of Iran developing nuclear weapons, not to mention its concern at the possible effects of Iran’s Islamist fundamentalism on Kashmiri Muslims.
After all, Iraq was an easy target in the first Gulf War precisely because it had abandoned its nuclear program, and possessed no weapons of mass destruction.
We do not exhaust our resources on weapons.
We are confronted by proliferation of nuclear weapons (by, say, North Korea and Iran).
The American National Academy of Sciences has warned that, “Just a few individuals with specialized skills…could inexpensively and easily produce a panoply of lethal biological weapons.…The
It is too soon to tell if Iran’s desire to obtain nuclear weapons has been delayed.
Bilateral talks between the US and Iran should continue in some form, in order to lay out what kind of future Iran can expect when it has abandoned its quest for nuclear weapons and ended its support for terrorist organizations.
Every militia, every ministry, every Shia political faction, has its own guns, goons, and death squads – while the Sunnis continue to use the stockpiles of weapons they accumulated under Saddam to fight a rear-guard action against the new order, apparently legitimized by elections.
North Korea’s Real StrategyDENVER – North Korea’s quest for nuclear weapons is often depicted as a “rational” response to its strategic imperatives of national security and regime survival.
It is only logical, on this view, that Kim Jong-un wants to avoid the mistake made by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, both of whom would still be alive and in power had they acquired deliverable nuclear weapons.
In fact, North Korea’s appetite for nuclear weapons is rooted more in aggression than pragmatism.
If North Korea had long-range nuclear weapons, however, it might be able to change the strategic calculus, by threatening to launch a nuclear attack on the US mainland in response to US intervention on the Korean Peninsula.
Testing is only a small element of a weapons program – and not necessarily an essential one.
There is no sign that the North Koreans would actually end research and development of nuclear weapons.
In fact, the idea that North Korea will abandon its weapons programs in exchange for the promise of security and regime survival has been tested has failed whenever it has been tested.
A US commitment not to attack North Korea with conventional or nuclear weapons was also included in the deal.
The same is true of a long list of items: the spread of infectious diseases, the stability of global financial markets, the international trade system, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics trafficking, international crime syndicates and transnational terrorism.
That is the case with the Vietnam War and, more recently, the invasion of Iraq on the fallacious grounds that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
This approach also lost credibility as a result of the rise of Hamas and its determination to wage permanent war on Israel;Iran’s expanding influence and nuclear weapons’ program; and the high – even rising – levels of hatred against Israel among Arabs and Muslims.
The Coming Ban on Nuclear WeaponsPRINCETON – On March 27, the United Nations will start negotiations on an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
From the beginning, even those who set the world on the path to nuclear weapons understood the mortal danger and moral challenge confronting humanity.
In January 1946, in its very first resolution, the UN called for a plan “for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons.”
At the time, only the United States had nuclear weapons, and it chose to maintain its monopoly.
Where it led, others soon followed, forcing humanity to endure the decades of weapons development, arms races, proliferation, and nuclear crises that followed.
In November 1961, the UN General Assembly declared that “any state using nuclear and thermonuclear weapons is to be considered as violating the Charter of the United Nations, as acting contrary to the laws of humanity, and as committing a crime against mankind and civilization.”
As the number and destructive power of nuclear weapons grew, and as even developing countries began to acquire them, recognition of the danger gave rise to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which entered into force in 1970.
Countries without nuclear weapons – the overwhelming majority – took matter into their own hands.
Through the UN General Assembly, they asked the International Court of Justice to rule on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons.
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