Insane nuclear strategy

War and Piece: : "The Bush administration has voted to kill the crucial 'inspection and verification' component of a nuclear non proliferation treaty:

In a significant shift of US policy, the Bush Administration has announced that it will oppose provisions for inspections and verification as part of an international treaty to ban production of nuclear weapons materials.


For several years the US and others have been pursuing the treaty, which would ban new production by any state of highly enriched uranium and plutonium for weapons.


At an arms control meeting in Geneva last week the US told other countries it supported a treaty, but not verification.


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Arms control specialists said the change in the US position would greatly weaken any treaty and make it harder to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the hands of terrorists. They said the US move virtually killed a 10-year international effort to persuade countries such as India, Israel and Pakistan to accept some oversight of their nuclear production programs.



This administration is insane. I have no words.


Hard right conservatives and neocons have always disdained arms control treaties saying 'Why bother? They can't be verified.' But by killing the verification component of this treaty which would ban production of nuclear materials, they have surely made that a fait accompli. To what end? It surely couldn't hurt, and it's not like the US has such a good track record of intelligence on WMD issues in India, Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, or Libya."