Nuke arms conference collapses without deal

[UpInArms]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=797314

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - After a month of bickering, the 188 signatories to the global pact against atomic weapons failed on Friday to agree on new steps to combat the danger of a nuclear holocaust and many blamed the United States and Iran.

The review of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was characterized by divisive debates over North Korea, Iran's nuclear enrichment ambitions, Israel's presumed atomic arsenal and U.S. plans for new and improved atomic weapons.

When the conference began on May 2, countries had hoped to agree on a plan to repair loopholes in the treaty that enable countries to acquire sensitive atomic technology and to hear from Washington and the four other NPT members with nuclear weapons that they remained committed to disarming.

But it quickly descended into procedural bickering, led by the United States, Iran and Egypt, before failing to reach any agreement on Friday, the last day of the conference.

In a clear swipe at Washington, which angered developing countries by refusing to reaffirm previous pledges to scrap its own nuclear arsenal, Canada's chief delegate blasted countries that tossed aside earlier commitments.

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[wryter2000]

1. But, but

I thought the President was making us safe. :sarcasm:

[Pirate Smile]

2. Way to go, John Bolton! You deserve a promotion. If you screw up

the UN, the Prez may even award you a medal.

[whistle]

3. This was Bolton's baby, right?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Yeah but how many media outlets will report this fact?

[phoebe]

4. this is all about weaponizing space and making loopholes to

ensure this happens..

[Moderator]

6. kick to combine

[maddezmom]

7. WP: No Nonproliferation Plan Offered

No Nonproliferation Plan Offered
188-Nation Talks on Nuclear Arms Fail to Produce Consensus

By Charles J. Hanley
Associated Press
Saturday, May 28, 2005; Page A20

UNITED NATIONS, May 27 -- After a month of near-paralysis, a global conference to tighten controls on the spread of nuclear arms adopted a final report Friday offering no new action at a time of mounting nuclear tension in the world.

The 188-nation meeting, reviewing the Non-Proliferation Treaty, produced weeks of divisive debate over issues including Iran's uranium centrifuges, Israel's nuclear capabilities and U.S. weapons plans. But it yielded no consensus-backed recommendations on concrete steps for reining in arms.


The disagreements even kept the conference president, Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, from issuing a summary statement endorsing nonproliferation principles.

~snip~
more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/27/AR2005052701487.html

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. There it is,

Iran.

[whistle]

9. This is not at all surprising given that John Bolton and Bush....

...have no interest what-so-ever in reducing nuclear proliferation. They want to put nuclear weapons in outer space for Christ sakes!

[leveymg]

11. They want nuclear hand grenades, just like in Starship Troopers!

As 13 year olds, that's where these guys got their strategic vision.

It's a war against bugs. They are a swarm, and their leaders live in caves. We can win if we allow the military to run society and inflict enough pain. When in doubt, nuke 'em.

Robert Heinlein wrote the script for the "War on Terror."

[bpilgrim]

10. US to develop new nuclear weapons... designed not to deter but to WAGE WAR

​Guardian (UK)--America’s Broken Nuclear Promises Endanger NPT
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It was to bridge the growing gulf between the two sides that the British delegation at the last review conference in 2000 helped broker agreement to 13 specific steps that the nuclear-weapon powers could take toward disarming themselves. Labour scores reasonably well against those benchmarks. Britain has taken out of service all non-strategic nuclear weapons and as a result has disarmed 70 percent of its total nuclear explosive power. It has also halted production of weapons-grade material and placed all fissile material not actually in warheads under international safeguards. This positive progress will be comprehensively reversed if Tony Blair does proceed as threatened to authorize construction of a new weapons system to replace Trident, but until then Britain has a good story to tell.

Not that it gets heard in the negotiating chambers, where it is obscured by the UK’s close identification with the Bush administration and British willingness in the review conference to lobby for understanding of their position. Their position is simply stated: Obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty are mandatory on other nations and voluntary on the US. Even while the review conference was sitting, the White House asked Congress for funds to research a bunker-busting nuclear bomb, although to develop new nuclear weapons, especially ones designed not to deter but to wage war, is to travel in the opposite direction to the undertakings the US gave to the last review conference.

The rationale for the bunker-buster is revealing. Its objective is to penetrate and destroy deeply buried arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. Perversely, the current regime in Washington does not perceive its development of nuclear weapons as an obstacle to multilateral agreement on proliferation but as the unilateral means of stopping proliferation. Whatever may be said for this muscular approach to proliferation, there is for sure no prospect of negotiating an agreed text with the rest of the world legitimating it.

source...
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=64473&d=28&m=5&y=2005"

i'm sure, we'll get our hair mussed... a little



you
know, to us who are pay'n attention to this terrible nightmare...
playing out in excruciating and horrid slow motion are left to
ponder/fret over what is taking everyone else so long to wake up to
it?!?

well... there is the pesky 'LIBERAL' media to contended with, eh


rndmprsn

THANK GORE, he 'INVENTED' the INTERNETs :bounce:

psst... pass the word

peace

[wolfgirl]

12. Love your roster

re: Liberal media.

Some days I don't know whether to cry or laugh (either way, it all makes me crazy!)

[bpilgrim]

13. thanks

and i love it, too, but thats rndmprsn's roster... another evil DU'er ;->

:hi:

peace

[lovuian]

14. Nuclear non proliferation conference ends in failure

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=98604c1e8be46068

Big News Network.com Saturday 28th May, 2005

The U.N. conference on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty ended Friday with failure to reach any substantive agreement on policy.

Among the nuclear power states, the United States was singled out for most of the blame, with China also criticized.

Washington was faulted for using procedural challenges to smokescreen its own nuclear policies and to avoid discussion of them, and Beijing for wanting to shield North Korea from criticism.

At the final day of the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, chairmen of the three main committees said their panels and their subsidiary bodies were unable to reach consensus and their reports were largely of a technical natur
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Very Interesting!!!