Friday, February 12, 2010

Discard discriminatory approach towards nuclear non- proliferation isuue

Why it is that the US does not object to the amassing of nuclear weapons by the western countries but it becomes furious when the other countries than the West try to build nuclear weapons even for peaceful purpose. It totally unjustified. Building nuclear arms and ammunition is not only the preserve of the West. When India had undertaken successful nuclear test becoming nuclear power state, the West instantly declared sanctions on it which it faced bravely. The West under the leadership of US requires to set example before the rest of world that could reflect that they are serious to wipe out nuclear weapons from the face of the earth. They should first act in the way that could also reflect that they are making effort to stop nuclear proliferation. But as far as the issue of nuclear non-proliferation is concerned, the West only work towards putting break on the rest of the world and in contravention to international norms and tradition they themselves keep making one new nuclear weapon after another. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated to hundreds of thousands of cheering Iranians on the anniversary of the 1979 foundation of the Islamic republic that the country was now a “nuclear state,” an announcement he’s made before. Iran has produced its first batch of uranium enriched to a higher level and now it will no longer be bullied by the West into curtailing its nuclear program ,though it has no intention of building nuclear weapons. The announcement of Iran being now a nuclear state has come just after a new US sanctions on it.It is not clear how much enriched material has actually been produced just two days after the process was announced to have started.The United States and some of its allies accuse Tehran of using its civilian nuclear program as a cover to build nuclear weapons but Tehran denies the charge, saying the program is just geared toward generating electricity.Enriching uranium produces fuel for a nuclear power plants but can also be used to create material for atomic weapons if enriched further to 90 per cent or more. If the Iran has professed that it is building nuclear weapons to generate electricity, what evil does the US see in that? Has the developing countries have no right to develop. The world has changed and now no country is going to tolerate the hegemony of big and powerful one. The US may the world's sole super power but it can not impose its discriminatory views on the developing countries. As far as Iran making nuclear weapons is concerned, what is wrong in it if it is done for development and peace. The situation demands in the changing pattern of the world that the US shouls set example by destroying its own nuclear arsenals respecting nuclear non-proliferation obligation. If it does so, the rest of the world is sure to follow it.

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