World's Deadliest Weapon

                   
antiwar.com     May 17, 2008            

Excerpt: On the 60th anniversary of the establishment, within the Mandate for Palestine, of Israel as a sovereign Jewish state, President Bush told Israel's legislature, that "Permitting the world's leading sponsor of terror to possess the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable... [read full story]                

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Radioactive Hypocrisy: American Hubris Threatens Perpetual Nuclear Proliferation

alternet.org     May 15, 2008          

Non-nuclear weapon states shouldn't tolerate the nuclear double standard. The bitterness about that double standard has steadily intensified for almost exactly four decades now (the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, was signed on July 1, 1968, and came into force in 1970). Because in the...                

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Tad Daley: Radioactive Hypocrisy: American Nuclear Hubris Threatens Perpetual Nuclear Proliferation

huffingtonpost.com     May 16, 2008          

"Why can't we have them when they can?" Because in the basic bargain of the NPT, the non-nuclear weapon states promised forever to forego nuclear weapons, in exchange for a pair of promises from the nuclear weapon states. Second, the nuclear weapon states promised - quite explicitly, in Article...                

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