USA a leading violators of the Nuclear Profileration Treaty

[bevin]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st...future_of_nukes

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"We think the main issue to be discussed at the Review Conference [:"red"]is the problem of noncompliance with the NPT,[/]" Stephen G. Rademaker, a top U.S. arms control official, said in an interview.

But many other governments want equal emphasis on speeding up what they see as the weapons states' slow pace toward nuclear disarmament, [:"red"]to which they are committed under the 1970 treaty. [/]

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The USA is right. The failure of the USA to do nuclear disarment is a problem of noncompliance.

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The NPT, flawed but vital centerpiece of arms control, is essentially a global bargain: States without nuclear weapons pledge not to pursue them, and five with the weapons — [:"red"]the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China — pledge to move toward eliminating them.

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And which of these five is the most active in NOT getting rid of them...

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Since then, the Bush administration has rejected the test-ban treaty, withdrawn from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, pushed research on new nuclear weapons and talked of potential use of nuclear arms against non-nuclear countries — all steps viewed by critics as contrary to the NPT's commitment to disarmament.

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/Bevin