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5 countries with nukes in NPT and 5 when Iran gets one and drops out 50-50.
Colonel,Sir,
There was a time when the Chinese exported revolution and the mass insanity called the Great Prolitereate Cultural Revolution.
As was the proliferation of the CHIC-4 blueprint.
LF,5 countries with nukes in NPT and 5 when Iran gets one and drops out 50-50.
Sir,Colonel,
With all due regards. it maybe mass insanity to the rest of the world, but to China, it was ''ideological cleansing''. It does not sound pleasant, but given the requirement to ensure that the mindset was similar and not deviate, it was required as perceived by Mao.
We are judging China based on western perception and media. What is the truth? Maybe there was good reasons to feel that there would be such a turmoil that China would disintegrate and hence Mao organised the same? I am not aware, but just a conjecture.
Mao maybe demonised today, but then his ideas brought a poverty stricken country to where it is!!
The theory of Legalism and assimilation of others is what has got China where it is today.
You forget my age, Yusuf. I'm no longer in the habbit of seeing more than 5 years down the line, if that. You forget that I saw myself buring at the Iron Curtain or seeing my now daughter manning my post. I was wrong on both counts.In due course of time things will change. Economics is a hard reality. If you can sell lethal weaponry, what is reprocessing technology. Besides India will become a key cog in the nuclear supplier industry with many western countries lining up ventures to do so.
Ultimately things will fall into place when the world comes to terms that India can get the cake and eat it too.
But then young people like us have every reason to believe that India will be up there.You forget my age, Yusuf. I'm no longer in the habbit of seeing more than 5 years down the line, if that. You forget that I saw myself buring at the Iron Curtain or seeing my now daughter manning my post. I was wrong on both counts.
Let see the advances before saying they're real.
And you keep buying Celine Dion albums.But then young people like us have every reason to believe that India will be up there.
It's never gonna happen. Not the first part, the second part.there will probably be a few more nuclear countries before the UN figures out what do.
threads mearged, please continue the discussion.Mods. Can we make this thread a sticky and use it to follow the latest developments in nuclear proliferation. Primarily aimed at NK, Pak, Libya, Iran etc.
G8 calls upon all countries to sign NPT - Europe - World - The Times of IndiaL'AQUILA (Italy): The G8 countries on Thursday called upon all countries to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) while deciding to step up efforts for swift implementation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), in a message that seems aimed at India -- the only `outlier' country at the summit.
Insisting that countries that have not signed NPT should do so immediately, the G8 emphasised the importance of the treaty to pursue non-proliferation and disarmament. India has refused to sign NPT describing it as a discriminatory regime.
"We underscore that NPT remains the cornerstone of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the essential foundation for the pursuit of nuclear disarmament, and reiterate our full commitment to the objectives and obligations of its three pillars: non-proliferation, peaceful uses of nuclear energy and disarmament. We will work together so that the 2010 NPT Review Conference can successfully strengthen the Treaty's regime and set realistic and achievable goals in all the Treaty's three pillars," the L'Aquila Statement on Non-Proliferation said.
Though only the latest of the reminders to India and other holdouts, the insistence is a clear indication that divergence over NPT remains a potential point of tension between India and the developed world. As NPT members move towards the RevCom of the NPT in 2010, there will be increased calls to India to sign up.
The G8 stand on non-proliferation highlighted the increasing possibility of India coming under renewed pressure also on the issue of CTBT, with member countries resolving to speed up their efforts to ensure ban on nuclear testing.
After remaining in cold storage for almost a decade, because the Bush administration did not consider it to be priority, the non-proliferation crowd received a shot in the arm with Barack Obama, who has promised to get the US Senate to ratify CTBT. He is still short of the required two-thirds majority, but experts believe that could be made to happen, overcoming doubts that US's nuclear warheads need to be updated.
"We welcome the announcement made by the President of the USA that has decided to seek ratification of Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and we will intensify our efforts towards the early entry into force and universalisation of the CTBT as one of the principal instruments of the international security architecture and a key measure of non-proliferation and disarmament," the G8 countries stated.
CTBT became major point of discord between India on the one hand and the US and other developed countries as well as NPT signatories on the other after India refused to sign the treaty calling it discriminatory and designed to serve the interests of the nuclear haves. The issue abated under the Bush administration, but has staged a comeback under Obama who has decided to make nuclear disarmament one of the defining marks of his presidency.
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