Today in Prague (Czech Republic), Obama and Medvedev signed a nuclear disarmament pact. Was that an ingenuous act or just getting rid of old unneeded nuclear junk? What do you think?
There can never be a nuclear free world unless we invent something that is a worse deterrent than nuclear weapons. I feel that it is just a political act. Nothing more than that.
yeah.. I agree.. If America want to see nuclear free world then why they dont dispose off their own first???
This seems pretty meaningless in light of what other Countries are doing and developing. Britain recently announced plans for their Nuclear arsenal to be reduced from 4 submarines presently in the Trident Nuclear defence program to three. With proposed plans to replace the four present Trident Nuclear submarines with new upgraded submarines beginning in 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Royal_Navy_SSBN_programme I doubt North Korea will be signing up to any Nuclear disamamnet agreement and Iran are supposed to be developing their own. Israel is said to secretly have nuclear wepaons but as they won't say so, it is unlikey they will give them up if they have. France certainly won't the Old President Chirac in 2006 said he may nuke the first country to commit major terrorists acts on France's home soil. Obviously he is not president now, but as they have the third largest arsenal after America and Russia it seems doubtful they would give them up.
That's kinda the point.... We're reducing our so that we can then point to our own example. This also gives us leverage when countries like Iran complain that we are trying to stop them while we aren't reducing ours. The good thing about the treaty is that though the US also pledged not to attack or threaten non-nuclear countries with our nuclear weapons there is language in there that shows that only applies to countries who are a signers of the Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT). So that means countries like Iran and North Korea are fair game.
It would certainly be nice to see the US and Russia and perhaps even France for that matter lessen their Nuclear capabilities but I can't see them giving them up completely, partly for the North Korean and Irnaian resons mentioned above. My cousin is a Captain on one of the four Trident Nuclear submarines of the UK's nuclear fleet. Strangely being Captain put him third in command on board he told me one Christmas when we had just finished our Chrismas dinner, I say strangely as we just assume the Captain would be the one in charge, but it seems this is not the case on the UK's nuclear submarine fleet.