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The outcome was uncertain – until Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated a fatwa banning nuclear weapons.
Far from harboring weapons of mass destruction, he was focused on maintaining his grip on power.
This dialogue should go beyond nuclear weapons to include the fight against terrorism, non-proliferation, the global arms trade, and Asia's evolving role in global security.
Those seeking an answer may find it in the recent international outcry over the new series of French nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific.
Last June, shortly after the successful international agreement on the indefinite extension of the Treaty banning the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the newly elected French president Jaques Chirac announced that France would conduct a final series of tests on Muroroa Atoll.
France was not the only nuclear weapons state to announce new tests;China, too, made clear it would proceed with its current programme.
It is not long ago that French experts had argued that the treaty banning nuclear explosions, which the nuclear weapons states have committed themselves to sign by the end of 1996, would have to allow small scale nuclear tests if only to reassure French nuclear bombs against the problem of nuclear ageing', the uncertainty whether all parts of the atomic bomb remain reliable.
On August 10, the French delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference, where the treaty is being negotiated, declared that his government will demand a ban of "all nuclear weapons tests and all other types of nuclear explosions".
So the success of non-governmental protest against the French test series has been remarkable, sending a signal not only to Paris but also to the other capitals of nuclear weapons states that the days of non-controversiality over their nuclear status are gone.
But the US has flatly rejected China’s proposal, ostensibly because it seems to morally conflate North Korea’s quest for weapons of mass destruction (which it appears fully prepared to use) with America’s right to defend itself and its allies.
Only cooperation can deliver peace and the escape from a useless, dangerous, and ultimately bankrupting new arms race, this time including cyber-weapons, space weapons, and next-generation nuclear weapons.
An incomplete list of his crimes includes:using chemical weapons against Iranian troops during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that he started in 1980;murdering about 5,000 residents of the predominantly Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 through the use of chemical weapons, after using these weapons in previous months against Kurdish villages in the vicinity;murdering about 100,000 Kurds during the "Anfal" campaign between February and September 1988, mainly by transporting the victims to a desert area where they were forced into trenches, machine-gunned, and then covered with sand by bulldozers;destroying the ancient civilization of the Marsh Arabs in southeastern Iraq, followed by the forced resettlement and murder of the region's former residents;his actions in Kuwait when Iraq invaded in 1990, including the disappearance--still unresolved--of hundreds of Kuwaiti citizens;savage reprisals against the Shiites in southern Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War;and persecution of any and all Iraqis suspected of dissent or disloyalty.
Rescuing Nuclear Non-ProliferationAs a declared non-nuclear weapon state, Indonesia has always striven for nuclear non-proliferation - indeed, for a world free of nuclear weapons.
The possibility that non-state actors could acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction poses an especially grave new threat.
For example, some countries want to develop smaller and "usable" nuclear weapons designed for pre-emptive or preventive military action.
Soon, the US was providing weapons and training to the PYD’s armed wing.
Despite reportedly promising that US weapons transfers would halt, President Donald Trump has not changed course, and American arms continue to flow to the Kurds.
On the question of Iran’s nuclear weapons capability, Americans and Europeans also fundamentally agree: it should be prevented.
The Bush administration is fiercely opposed to lifting the embargo, pointing out that in the event of a military clash over Taiwan, US troops would face weapons provided to China by America’s own allies.
Furthermore, Afghanistan’s neighbors must do more to stop insurgents, weapons, money, and chemical precursors from flowing across their borders into the country.
A Time for Action in the Middle EastLONDON – The announcement, following the use of chemical weapons in Syria, of an emergency summit in Jordan this week of military leaders from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar is a welcome development.
There are large numbers of soldiers and police among the casualties, as well as civilians; and, partly as a byproduct of the fall of Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, Egypt is awash with weapons.
But the damage inflicted by an attack might be tremendous, because ports are thought to be one of the few ways terrorists might smuggle nuclear weapons into the US.
Moreover, the international community continues to pillory China for its arms sales to Sudan, which is believed to have used the weapons in the Darfur genocide.
Besides missile defense, topics could include non-strategic (tactical) nuclear weapons; reserve nuclear warheads that have been removed from operational arsenals, but have yet to be destroyed; and the placement of conventional munitions on strategic delivery vehicles, such as long-range ballistic missiles, that are normally used to carry nuclear warheads.
These discussions are occurring on a bilateral basis, between Russia and the US, and multilaterally, within the context of the so-called P-5 talks, which involve all five permanent United Nations Security Council members – the only countries that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty legally permits to retain nuclear weapons pending universal disarmament.
Russia has been China’s major supplier of weapons since the late 1990’s.
Most of the arms used were yesterday’s weapons.
As China is now able to harness its own technological might to produce sophisticated weapons, Russia’s usefulness in this area is waning fast.
Thus, even at the zero bound of nominal interest rates, it is argued, central banks still have weapons in their arsenal.
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