DO THE FIVE NUCLEAR WEAPON COUNTRIES HAVE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO POSSESS NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

choices : technology : DO THE FIVE NUCLEAR WEAPON COUNTRIES HAVE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO POSSESS NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

[+] serious ballot by passiveson
ACTIVE Thu Oct 01, 09 - Fri Oct 01, 10
Nuclear Weapons are a major global concern with the possibility of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), should any nation decide it's necessary to use a nuclear strike in it's own defense.

Every since the US atomic bombings in japan in 1945, there have been international attempts to develop nuclear weapons for defensive purposes.

The technology has been closely gaurded and regulated by the UN. Though the pursuit of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes is permissable, dual-use equipment could provide countries with peaceful nuclear programs to potentially use the reactors and fuel for uranium enrichment that could be used in a nuclear warhead.

The five nuclear weapon states that signed the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), prevent other nations from developing nuclear weapons by imposing economic trade sanctions, ban the sale and shipment of materials, equipment and parts used in the construction of reactors and missile systems, and, have actually targeted suspected facilities with cruise missiles, with one exception, Israel.

Israel possesses 100-200 nuclear missiles. They won't allow inspections of their nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and, is one of the three nations with nuclear armaments that hasn't signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Now my question is this~

Do countries possessing nuclear weapons have an exclusive right to possess them, and to the extent of denying other nations from developing nuclear programs and weapons for security and defensive purposes?

Yes, the guy with the biggest and the mostest can bully everyone else
No, the technology is for everyone, even the enemy.

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COMMENTS:
Voted : No, the technology is for everyone, even the enemy.
...just because some would want to kill me doesn't mean I should want to kill then.

by passiveson on Thu Oct 01, 09 7:44am [+]

Voted : No, the technology is for everyone, even the enemy.
All or none. Sick of the global police act.

by ThisIsNate on Thu Oct 01, 09 10:19am [+]

It's a bit like the forms you have to fill in to get a gun permit, if you're a loony you don't get to have one. It's fair enough imo.

by britvic55 on Fri Oct 02, 09 1:29pm [+]

^Ditto.

by Mr_Spleen on Fri Oct 02, 09 5:19pm [+]

Britvic, anyone without a criminal history or who hasn't been declared incompetent by the court can purchase a gun. The issue isn't about some random guy applying for a permit, a nation must protect it's citizens and has a right to develop whatever weaponry it sees necessary to guarentee it's safety. To deprive people adequate defensive power against more powerful adversaries is inhumane. Countries with nuclear weapons are no more or less right in thier foreign policies and international agendas then those with out. Until a nation has proven it's self incompetent or mis uses it's defensive power, who are we to judge and deprive?

by passiveson on Fri Oct 02, 09 7:08pm [+]

Do countries possessing nuclear weapons have an exclusive right to possess them? The answer to that question is no. No country has a right to dictate to another, but it's not as simple as that. You hit the nail on the head when you said 'by imposing economic trade sanctions, ban the sale and shipment of materials, equipment and parts used in the construction of reactors and missile systems' and they have every right to do that. Who, in their right mind, would help a loons build an arsenal which would probably be used against them?

by britvic55 on Sat Oct 03, 09 9:20am [+]

Who, in their right mind, would help a loons build an arsenal which would probably be used against them?

LOL, We would, so I guess we isn't all that right in the head. After bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government released an official technical history of the Manhattan Project, The Soviet program would use the Report as a blueprint, seeking to duplicate as much as possible the American effort. Then, of course, The U.S. is the global leader in nuclear energy technology manufacturing, having a total market value of nearly $45.2 billion in 2002 and growing to an estimated $50.8 billion by year-end 2009. By 2013, SBI estimates that the U.S. market
value will reach $61.1 billion, growing at an eleven-year Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 2.8%.

We build and sell the nuclear reactors and components globally but we have no control over what the buyer does with them. These are commercial reactor electrical powerplants, however they can also weaponize uranium.

Iran's nuclear program was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States. Once the reactor was up and running, Uranium enrichment to weapon grade is no longer in control of the internation community. They have the centifuges, they've constructed the facility and manufactured the delivery system. We don't have to like it, but our covert sabotage of suspected sites, and Israeli plans for a targeted strike on a Soviegn Nations suspected weapons production facilities, is a declaration of War and Iran does have rightful expectation to defend it's borders.

by passiveson on Sat Oct 03, 09 10:33am [+]