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As the world gathers in a month long meeting to discuss nuclear weapons proliferation issue that worry a larger world, day one was dominated by Ahmadinejad and Hillary Clinton mainly discussing only the Iranian nuclear weapons issues. Making heated claims and counterclaims that shed much heat and very little light or insight.
But as a large number of other nations, nearly all of which are card carrying signatories to the nuclear non proliferation pacts, all over the world are petitioning the IAEA to start their own peace time nuclear energy programs in the near future, there may end up being few places or regions on the globe that do not end up with near neighbors having a peace time nuclear power generation programs.
As a sad reality becomes, that the same nuclear reactors that generate peace time nuclear energy in form of electricity, also can be harnessed as machines that breed nuclear weapons grade plutonium in their spent fuel rods as a byproduct.
And now on conference day two, Egypt for one of many other Arab nations, are making a plea for a nuclear weapons free mid-east. And I suspect the same idea will be picked up by the larger world who worry more about their own locales than merely just the mid-east.
The upside to missing in attendance Israel, may be for more international pressure be brought against Iran, but the giant downside may be in forcing Israel to give up its clandestine nukes. And with 29 more days left to the conference, a nuclear weapons worried world may find that idea of nuclear weapons free zones increasingly appealing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100504/ap_on_re_us/un_nuclear_treaty
But as a large number of other nations, nearly all of which are card carrying signatories to the nuclear non proliferation pacts, all over the world are petitioning the IAEA to start their own peace time nuclear energy programs in the near future, there may end up being few places or regions on the globe that do not end up with near neighbors having a peace time nuclear power generation programs.
As a sad reality becomes, that the same nuclear reactors that generate peace time nuclear energy in form of electricity, also can be harnessed as machines that breed nuclear weapons grade plutonium in their spent fuel rods as a byproduct.
And now on conference day two, Egypt for one of many other Arab nations, are making a plea for a nuclear weapons free mid-east. And I suspect the same idea will be picked up by the larger world who worry more about their own locales than merely just the mid-east.
The upside to missing in attendance Israel, may be for more international pressure be brought against Iran, but the giant downside may be in forcing Israel to give up its clandestine nukes. And with 29 more days left to the conference, a nuclear weapons worried world may find that idea of nuclear weapons free zones increasingly appealing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100504/ap_on_re_us/un_nuclear_treaty
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