A World without Nukes

[tw]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Didn't we already have the disarmament debate during the 80's?

A long term program had begun where all sides were slowly diminishing their nuclear stockpiles. A program that required long term trust. Also part of that program was to shift nuclear power plants all over the world to less enriched uranium to make weapons grade uranium even more difficult to obtain.

Then some idiot unilaterally suspended international treaties, acted belligerent, attacked another sovereign nation by inventing lies, and characterizing (destabilizing) the world only in terms of good and evil (axis of evil). That destroyed all trust necessary to continue reducing these nuclear reductions.

And so we must start all over again. This time with a new complication. Some international parties have been encouraged that selling and developing nuclear weapons is good especially when the 800 gorilla has no problems destroying another nation simply using myths. Welcome to another legacy of the past eight years.

Originally Posted by tw

A long term program had begun where all sides were slowly diminishing their nuclear stockpiles. A program that required long term trust. Also part of that program was to shift nuclear power plants all over the world to less enriched uranium to make weapons grade uranium even more difficult to obtain.

Then some idiot unilaterally suspended international treaties, acted belligerent, attacked another sovereign nation by inventing lies, and characterizing (destabilizing) the world only in terms of good and evil (axis of evil). That destroyed all trust necessary to continue reducing these nuclear reductions.

And so we must start all over again. This time with a new complication. Some international parties have been encouraged that selling and developing nuclear weapons is good especially when the 800 gorilla has no problems destroying another nation simply using myths. Welcome to another legacy of the past eight years.

I wouldnt quite put it like that, but I essentially agree.

Despite all its faults and loopholes, the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and related agreements have accomplished alot since 1970....until the Bush administration turned its back on commitments by predecessors (of both parties) by refusing to extend the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, scrapping the ABM treaty, and moving towards placing weapons and militarizing outer space.

Hardly a model of leading by example while still providing the necessary level of national security.