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evthis
Does America have the right to demand that countries presently lacking in nuclear arms do not take measures to become nuclear arms equipped?
evthis said:Does America have the right to demand that countries presently lacking in nuclear arms do not take measures to become nuclear arms equipped?
spender said:nobody respects usa, other nations are only afraid of some stupid reaction of white house.that is why everyone suddenly is developing nukes=self defense against idiots.usa/israel deserves to be wiped out from the face of this planet.
Yes, if the country in question has signed the NPT and maybe if the country (as said above) has demonstrated that it can't be trusted.evthis said:Does America have the right to demand that countries presently lacking in nuclear arms do not take measures to become nuclear arms equipped?
Let's refrain from derogatory remarks of this nature. Let's not bring the discussion down to such a low level.spender said:idiots.usa/israel deserves to be wiped out from the face of this planet.
evthis said:Does America have the right to demand that countries presently lacking in nuclear arms do not take measures to become nuclear arms equipped?
evthis said:Does America have the right to demand that countries presently lacking in nuclear arms do not take measures to become nuclear arms equipped?
Lyuokdea said:Yes, because Iran, North Korea, and others signed the NPT, they currently have an obligation to not acquire Nuclear Weapons. However, under Article VI we currently have a right to disarm, we're not doing that, neither is anybody really. I think other countries do have some legitimate grounds to call the treaty void, or at least hold the P5 in violation, however, as that hasn't happened and they are signatories we do have the right to demand that they not acqire Nuclear Weapons.
~Lyuokdea
franznietzsche said:If those countries signed the NUclear Nonproliferation Treaty, then yes.
When will people like you and spender actually bother to learn history?
evthis said:Why would signing a treaty like the NPT give America a "right" to tell other countries that it is right for America to be with nuclear weapons but it is wrong for other countries to have them or develop them?
loseyourname said:By signing the treaty, they agreed that they would not develop a nuclear weapons program. This gives any signatory the right to object when another signatory violates the treaty.
evthis said:But what about countries that already have nuclear weapons that sign the NPT? How is it that they have a right to tell other countries "its ok for us to have them but not for you?"
loseyourname said:The other countries agreed to it. If they didn't want to, they didn't have to sign.
Sometimes, yes. Like I said before, there are a number of countries who have shown they can't be trusted with nukes and the rest of the world absolutely has the right to tell them they can't have them. However, that's kinda a hypothetical: the only important nonsignatories are India, Israel, and Pakistan (and N. Korea has illegally pulled out). None of the three really qualify as rogue nations (though Pakistan has been on the edge before).evthis said:So does America have a right to tell a country that didn't sign "you cannot build nuclear weapons"?
russ_watters said:Sometimes, yes. Like I said before, there are a number of countries who have shown they can't be trusted with nukes and the rest of the world absolutely has the right to tell them they can't have them. However, that's kinda a hypothetical: the only important nonsignatories are India, Israel, and Pakistan (and N. Korea has illegally pulled out). None of the three really qualify as rogue nations (though Pakistan has been on the edge before).
I just noticed this post. When has Iran, in modern history (since the Persian Empire) attempted to conquer a neighbor? In the last war with a neighbor, it was Iraq that attacked Iran (and then of course the U.S. pitched in).loseyourname said:If we're talking countries like Iran and North Korea, that have attempted in the past to conquer their neighbors, then I'd say their neighbors certainly have the right to demand that they not acquire nuclear weapons. Since these neighbors can't do a damn thing about it themselves, the US feels that it should, since it has some interest in these matters as well. Any nation has the right to demand that its best interest be taken care of. By the same token, Iran and North Korea have the right to demand nuclear weapons; they'll be a lot more powerful with them than without them.