Nuclear Weapons (opinion)

By mugen shiyo · Apr 5, 2012 · ·
  1. I was kinda wondering about the whole American stance on nuclear weapons thing. You know...how we have this thing where we tell a nation that does not do what we want them doing whether or not they can have nuclear weapons or not.

    First question is...why is it a crime for a country to have a nuclear weapon? It's common sense for a nation to have self-defense. Certainly no one else is going to do it for them. he UN is merely a reflection of the leading world powers who all couldn't care if these nations in question were free or slaves if it profited them in some way.

    Second...is it nuclear weapons we don't like them having or nuclear POWER? I don't hear the denial of nuclear weapons as much as I do the denial of enriching uranium period. This means that we don't want them to have nuclear power at all. Why? Not really for defense purposes. Believe me...if you were allowed to count the amount of nuclear weapons the United States has you would totally realize the epic foolishness of every targeting us with one. Especially for a nation just getting ready to make such weapons. This would be like me getting my first gun and running out to take shoots at a Marine Base. I think the US doesn't want them to have nuclear power because that would be a major step to such a nation becoming independent. Independent people cannot be controlled and they certainly don't want to have their own power and influence in the region challenged by a strong, independent state.

    Third...Does anyone ever consider the US's backing of Israel to be a bit too disproportionate. This nation is TINY and insignificant as far as resources. The only thing it could serve as is what it served as in the time of the Crusades...a foothold in the region and a symbolic foothold; control of the Holy Land. For some reason- and not really on any Zionist conspiracy thing- the whole thing gives me the chills when combined with current events. For some reason, I think the only Nuclear Weapons allowed in the Middle East will be those marked US and aimed, always, at the middle east.

Comments

  1. Lemex
    It's only a crime when they haven't signed the UN agreements over Nuclear Weaponry, and still seek to build them anyway. This is one of the reasons why the west is so hard on Iran these days.

    Nuclear power isn't trusted, because of two very famous melt-downs I shouldn't need to name here. Nuclear weapons are terrifying weapons of mass destruction.

    Speaking only for myself I don't particularly care for Israel. It has a right to exist now, down to the mere fact it exists, but honestly, we have been too hard on the Palestinians.
  2. mugen shiyo
    Yeah, I could see that as a plausible approach to why the US is hard on Iran, or any other country it denies Nuclear Weapons to, but what about Nuclear Power? And when I think about it, why is the country the way it is? It's poor and it's desperate. It has people on the outside who want to subject it to their rules and prerequisites which are undoubtedly unfair and disproportionate, though you will never hear that officially, of course. I'm sort of half-and-half on the whole thing. On the one hand they seem a threat but on the other hand it seems they are a threat because we make them one- we being our government and economic interests in the region.
  3. Lemex
    Because it's not actually trying to obtain nuclear power for peaceful means. Ahmadinejad has even admitted in public that it's about building illegal nuclear weaponry. Nuclear power is under UN restrictions because of it's nature, it is the power of nuclear fusion. Once you have nuclear plants, and the ability to use nuclear power, you already have a nuclear weapon, and it doesn't take much to make a bomb from a power plant. Iran isn't as poor or desperate as you think. Sure it doesn't have as much wealth per-cap as western nations, but it's not poor. And desperate? What about? The country is a totalitarian state, and has made no attempts to reconcile itself with it's neighbors. It's as 'desperate' as it wants and needs to be.

    The UN resolutions regarding atomic energy are entirely fair, because they have been agreed to by nearly every nation on earth. Even China has signed the atomic energy agreements, so why can't Iran? And believe me, if China wanted to build nuclear weapons without any real pressure from the UN it could. Honestly, to me there is nothing wishy-washy about Iran. It's government is corrupt and ... well ... evil.
  4. Islander
    The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a deal that aims to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. The five signatories that have nuclear weapons (USA, China, UK, France and the Soviet Union) are forbidden to aid other countries in obtaining them, but obliged to share their nuclear technology for peaceful means. All other signatories are forbidden from obtaining nuclear weapons.
    It's not a proper law, and not all major nations have signed it. For example, the other three nations that have admitted to having nuclear weapons, India, Pakistan and North Korea, are not signatories.

    Iran is also one of the signatories, and has a peaceful nuclear energy program. It also had a program to obtain nuclear weapons in secret that was halted in 2003, and they've failed to comply with the UN's safeguards that are supposed to detect and stop attempts to build them. The USA claims Iran is currently attempting to obtain nuclear weapons, but if they are, they're probably years away from succeeding.

    The major reason for Iran to want nuclear weapons is probably the presence of Israel, which is believed to have nuclear weapons in secret.

    Iran is an undemocratic theocracy where non-Islamic religions are oppressed, and morality laws are imposed on the Islamic population. However, its leadership tends to be rational. I.e, they're unlikely to start or provoke a war unless they're in danger themselves.

    When USA claims that Iran needs to be disarmed because it may start wars, it's the height of arrogance and hypocrisy. The USA supported Iraq's war against Iran, and Iraq was a much more oppressive regime, that routinely tortured its own citizens, and used nerve gas against rebels. Like the joke goes:

    "Why was USA so sure Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?"
    "They kept the receipt!"

    USA has had a great interest in the Middle East for a long time, and there are at least two reasons for this:
    * They want the region to be stable, because the US-American economy needs a steady supply of oil.
    * They are trying to help Israel, which to a large extent is populated with emigrants from the USA.

    Also, a new nation obtaining nuclear weapons is always something that's taken seriously by the international community.
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