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Originally posted by: TheGameIs21
Originally posted by: SunnyD
I've been following the Iranian nuclear saga, and since this isn't the first time it's happened in even the last year, I have to ask...
What right does the US, and other "Western" nations like the UK, France and Germany have to tell developing nations "sorry, but you're not ALLOWED to develop a nuclear energy/weapons program" ?
Is it just because we have nukes and therefore can bully the world around? Sure, developing nations CAN use their nuke programs to develop weapons, but who really cares? We're worried nukes will get into the wrong hands? They will anyway even if these countries don't have their programs.
So why not take a proactive approach and educate these countries, and allow them to foster the scientific community, and their social community (electricity)?
Or are we just too afraid that one of these countries will actually surpass us technologically...
There is a difference between Weapons Grade Plutonium (not used in generation of electricity) and utility Plutonium (don't know the technical term for this grade). We have assisted MANY 3rd world nations in developing nuclear (and other) energy sources but have not allowed nations that are unstable in their leadership (coups and dictatorships are not countries we want to develop nuclear anything with).
Sorry, but that's exactly what Clinton did with North Korea.