Iran the Bomb and the NPT

It is so painfully obvious so many responders have neglected to brush up on what exactly the NPT was all about. In the heights of the cold war, there was a massive peace movement around the world. There was a near universal call for nuclear disarmament, and to find a way nations would vow not to pursue nuclear weapons. In exchange, those signatories would be granted the right, and even be aided by the world to install peaceful nuclear industries.

China, the US, France, Britain, and the USSR agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals, partially in exchange for a world in which more and more countries would not pursue Nuclear weapons. The major nuclear powers have reduced the size of their nuclear arsenals. There were follow up treaties like the START treaty that furthered this process.

Signing the treaty was OPTIONAL. To sign meant a country would be able to transfer nuclear technology from the major powers to use it for peaceful use in EXCHANGE for the promise not to pursue nuclear weapons. The IAEA has been the referee, and reports on the various levels of compliance. By signing countries could fast-track to nuclear power generation etc, without having to invent or discover nuclear theory entirely on their own. 190 countries signed on.

Countries were never required to sign, but once they did, they were bound to the terms and conditions. There were non-nuclear states who cheated, North Korea-who officially dropped out of the NPT after it had obtained that level of nuclear technology by information transfer; Pakistan and India. The last two countries were given nuclear capability by many NPT signatories including Canada. It is difficult to overstate the peril that arose from these developments.

Iran has been building nuclear weapons, secretly, while still being an NPT signatory. The IAEA has reams of evidence that Iran has been flat-out lying: That despite all the polite diplomatic ways of saying it or dancing around the issue.

But beyond the issue that they promised one thing and do another, that they lie in open offense of Allah, they are assembling the bomb. That is simply undeniable. They have broken their word, they have effectively broken the treaty, although they continue ostensibly as though they were in compliance. To make matters worse, Iran has been backing global terrorism openly and clandestinely. Funding Hamas is enough evidence, but worse are its support of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and acts upon Iraq to the point of puppetry that they openly deny. The denial of course is in keeping with their deception on the NPT.

It is the prospect of Iran passing along nuclear weapons to terrorist groups that is most serious. The risk of a nuclear attack on the west in the next 10 years, is tantamount to the early days of the Cuban missile crisis.

It really disgusts me that so many would post minimizing this reality: Especially when those would be the same voices protesting Canada's nuclear power generation.

The next issue of stupidity, is to throw Israel into the mix. It NEVER signed the NPT, and as every sovereign state, could never be required to! That's what so many people just don't get! To bring the issue up knowing this, is to deflect the issue at hand, introduce a red herring, and mire problem solving into oblivion.

This is the rub. Israel has nukes. But Iran would have pursued this in any event, don't kid yourselves. By way of the terrorist underground, their having the bomb is a direct threat to the west.