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Bush Regime Sparks Nuclear Arms Race Comment by Larry Ross, March 7, 2007
A new US hydrogen bomb will add momentum to the new nuclear arms race. The US disregard of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty - making more bombs rather than nuclear disarmament as promised, and Bush's threat to bomb a non-nuclear nation - Iran - will convince other nations that their security lies with adding to and modernising their own nuclear arsenals. Non-nuclear nations, fearing that they may be next on Bush's hit list, may make the decision to make their own nuclear weapons. They might calculate that a non-nuclear North Korea , long-threatened with US attack, made the bomb and now is on the verge of productive agreements with the U.S. because they agree to giving up their bomb. On the other hand non-nuclear Iran is enriching uranium for power as agreed under the terms of the NPT. But also adhering to the terms of the NPT, Iran has pledged not to make nuclear weapons and allow the IAEA to verify that fact. By being a principled international citizen and playing by the NPT rules, Iran now finds itself on the verge of a U.S. nuclear attack. By demonising Iran, the Bush regime has persuaded its public and much of the international community, and gained a UN anti-Iran resolution, to go along with US policy and lies. US military action against Iran is next, based on the same kind of lies the Bush neo-con regime invented to fool the US public into supporting the US war against Iraq. However the appetite of the U.S. military-industrial-congressional complex for evermore weapons and wars is insatiable. So the Pentagon will probably get their new hydrogen bomb. It's like a hallowed U.S. lifestyle now, almost a divine right that cannot be questioned. There is so much madness, lying, cruelty, wars and intended wars that some people may have been overwhelmed with despair and given up protesting. They are numbed and acclimatised to accept whatever the criminal and extremist Bush regime decides to do. However the threats are increasing and coming ever closer. Intelligent analysis, action and commitment to stop the Bush regime have never been more urgently needed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Experts Warn New US Weapon Could Jumpstart Nuclear Arms Race By Haider Rizvi, OneWorld US, March 6, 2007
New York - A U.S. plan to develop a new hydrogen bomb could spark production of new nuclear weapons by other countries, including several foes of the Bush administration, warn some of the nation's leading arms control and disarmament advocacy groups. Last Friday, the Department of Energy announced it was seeking to develop a new hydrogen bomb that would replace the existing W76 warhead now deployed on submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Many analysts say the Bush administration's plan would undermine international efforts to control the spread of nuclear arms and would provide justification to those countries currently suspected of trying to build such weapons. "It will not convince the Iranian Scylla, North Korean Charybdis, or any other less attention-grabbing nascent nuclear state that the U.S. is serious about dampening the political value of nuclear weapons in its security policy," says Travis Sharp, a research fellow at the Washington, DC-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. The Bush administration has justified the move by arguing that the condition of existing warheads essentially demands that a new hydrogen bomb be developed in the next two decades, but experts on nuclear weapons find this line of reasoning out of step with reality on the ground. |
