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2006-04-13 Arabia

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Posted by 3dc 2006-04-13 00:30|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is one of the relatively undiscussed issues that convinces me that Bush will act. It wouldn't end at Saudi, either. Easy to see Egypt wanting to be in that club. Another is the snuggly relationship between the MM and Yugo. The problem is tryinig to stuff the nuclear genie back in the bottle post-Kahn.

Long termm technology will get faster, better and cheaper. It will become easier for any wacko turd world country to become a nuclear "power" each year. We have to demonstrate that it is not worth the effort, regardless of how small that effort becomes.

So, Iran must be made an example. We need to Shermanize the place. Especially the electrical system.

And for all this we have the Indians, Paks and Chinese to thank.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-13 08:56|| 2006-04-13 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 And the Israelis, and the French and the British, and the Russians?

Posted by john 2006-04-13 13:08|| 2006-04-13 13:08|| Front Page Top

#3 From
Does the U.S. Science-Based stockpile Stewardship Program Pose a Proliferation Threat?
Paine and McKinzie

http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/pdf/7_2Paine.pdf

Past state decisions to share weapons information (shown graphically in Figure 1) have served to influence the current international system. By and large, the rationale for these acts had been the strengthening of an ally. But alliances change: Moscow, for example, grew to regret its early nuclear weapons assistance to Beijing.

Figure 1: Venn diagram displaying the historical sharing of nuclear weapons knowledge
among declared nuclear weapon states (solid circles), undeclared nuclear weapon states
(dashed circles), and South Africa, a former undeclared nuclear weapon state. The num-
ber of explosive nuclear tests performed is given in parentheses. Area of overlap is not
strictly proportional to the degree of knowledge sharing, as this is difficult to quantify. The
Russia-U.S. overlap reflects the recent purchase by the U.S. Defense Special Weapons
Agency (via a detailed neotiated contract) of a large amount of data concerning the
former Soviet test program. Transfer of information from nuclear weapon states to non-
nuclear weapon states that would assist the latter "in any way' to acquire nuclear explo-
sive devices is prohibited under Articles I and II of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Posted by john 2006-04-13 13:21|| 2006-04-13 13:21|| Front Page Top

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