| alG. Everbody's bad. Except the Noble Savages, of course. They're purdy cute. Can we go back to the trees, now? |
But the activities of acknowledged nuclear weapons states such as the US, Russia and Britain, and deepening frustrations among key non-nuclear, non-aligned players such as Indonesia and Argentina, are also stoking worries that the UN's cornerstone non-proliferation treaty (NPT) is not long for this life.
The Gulf countries - Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE - made clear that, like Iran, they want nuclear know-how for solely "peace purposes". And it is not the first time the idea of an Arab bomb has come up. Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Saudi Arabia have already declared an intention to develop civilian nuclear energy.