Is the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty effective? How can it be improved in order to have more nations join?
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US has more to gain from this than to lose. Firstly, being the leader of NSG, a new vista for business is open to US. Secondly, with this deal, it is possible for the US to keep the normally non-aligned India on its side. Thirdly and most importantly, US can keep tabs on India's Nuclear prog. and thereby bringing Ind into the fold of NPT.
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The U.N. SecGen's power is somewhat circumscribed, but there are a few things that can be done.\n\nThe first thing I'd to to make a better world is to make a functional U.N.\n\n\n\nPursue to a final conclusion the oil-for-food scandal, and punish those responsible to the full extent of the law, in order to restore some measure of trust in the organization.\n\nRequire, in the future, independent audits of all U.N. expenditure programs using multiple lines of evidence, to be made public triennially.\n\nRequire that all U.N. goods and service contracts be put to public tender.\n\nPermit no more than 10 years of service at the U.N. for any person other than basic physical plant and food service support workers and administrative support workers.\n\nRequire that any salary at the U.N. over $100,000 (US) be made public.\n\n\n\n\nIt's a start.
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The experts at NRDC estimate between 30-35 (2002 est.) with enough weapons-grade plutonium for 50-90 more nuclear weapons. \nThe website Armgeddon Online claims they have 70.
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All but three nations have signed the NPT treaty, there were fewer founding members of the treaty and Ireland was the impetus for the creation of the treaty.  They signed at various times some in 1968 when the treaty was created others like China and France in the 90's and later.  The overall agreement is to abstain from obtaining nuclear weapons in exchange for peaceful nuclear technology.  This has been the point of contention since the start of the treaty and is the reason India never signed.  Israel never signed because of its ambiguos nuclear program and Pakistan follows India's movements and didn't sign either.
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That's why the only solution as I mentioned in my question, is to have some European Union Style Organization for the three countries in Nafta. \n\nWhat other measure do you think will fix the problem? What would be the problem with trying to achieve the aforementioned goal?
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It is my impression it is a plan of containment, and limited action.  Diplomatic pressure is most likely not going to be effective.  Some form of action will be required but it will be a group of nations involved with limited military involvement.
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of course it will! All those years of friction with neighbouring country Pakistan will now have a strong back up!(i.e: Kashmir conflict). Pakistan is already in good terms with the USA so India is scoring good points by having a nuclear treaty too..Another reason why the treaty's important is because the political situation is already unstable enough (i know what im talking about, i live in Lebanon), and the threats to Iran concerning its nuclear activities are opening more eyes on the danger of atomic energy. It was wise to sign a treaty with the US since it dictates (illegitimately) the steps of the Security Council and the General Assembly..
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I think we need to act.  An air strike targeting uranium enrichment plants combined with covert operations to discover and destroy any hidden nuclear threats would probably work best.  That would minimize civilian casualties and set the nuclear program back for years.  We could then encourage the people to overthrow the current regimen.
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The US basically started the UN!  The US pushed for other countries to join the UN during the Cold War and now must accept what it has helped implement.  Can you Neocon Conspiracy theorists get over yourselves?  The UN is not a demonic institution that was prophasized in the "Bible" or a creation of the former Soviet Bloc countries!  Geez...
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Some say we have no respect for life.  And we have nukes.  Everyone gets all worried when a new country gets nukes.  Sadly, the power a country obtains by having a nuke (USA!) makes it a desirable goal for countries.  We were just as afraid of pakistan and india having nukes, but now that they have nukes we 'work' with them.  We won't negotiate or lift sanctions with/on North Korea, but if they get nukes, we'd meet them as equals instead.  So you see, the United States created this 'everyone wants nukes' problem.  I'm sure the rest of the world isn't so sure we're completely trustworthy and capable of having them, just as we're afraid of other countries having them.  You'd think the solution would be to eliminate nukes.  Sadly, that's impossible because then some other country would get them and they'd be the super power like the USA.  And then we'd be on the short end of the stick internationally.  Basically, we'd be screwed.  It's a no-win situation.
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Every country needs nuclear power.  Its a clean, environmental power source.  North Korea and Iran should have built Candu reactors that cannot be converted into nuclear weapons as easily.\nNuclear Power cannot help the North Korean People because it brought sanctions and made their life more miserable.   You cannot seperate the two issues.
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They are there in many nations.  They are not advertised at all because so many people are against anything having to do with nuclear.
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bottom line is: we can't change the fact that some countries have nuclear weapons, but if possible we need to prevent more from becoming armed with them,\nLike it or not, the more countries that have nuclear weapons the more likely that some country will use them against their "enemy's"\nIf this should occurs, it may lead others to use their weapons in fear of a nuclear attract,\nResulting in a world wide exchange of nuclear weapons fire!
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Absolutely not going to happen.  We've signed treaties left and right saying we won't use nuclear force.  The US has absolutely bent the rules when it comes to foreign relations but they absolutely would not completely abandon them.  With that being said, I predict a high probability of them using force OTHER than nuclear force...
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It should not be allowed nuclear capabilities, and we should all endever to prevent this occurance, because it is not within the intrests of the Western world. I recognise the arguement that Iran is as unstable or backward as the Western press portray it to be, however a neuclear Iranian would enable it to dictate policy in the region to a much larger degree, look at North Korea for example. The West needs a weaker Iran to exploit its natural resources, we should not be apologetic about this fact, we should however be careful how we go about it. As previous events have shown, badly planned interferance is far worse than isolationism.
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No, it means that both of those countries that you mentioned are in CLEAR AND BLATANT violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.\nThe US is not in violation of it.  Neither are the other nuclear-armed countries who agreed to the treaty.\nNorth Korea and Iran would have to have completely peaceful governments in order to develop nuclear technology.  They do not, therefore they SHOULD NOT develop anything nuclear.