Ahmadinejad urges creation of independent body to control nuclear stockpiles
00:3505/05/2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the creation of an independent international body to control the number of warheads produced by nuclear powers.
The statement came during Tuesday's news conference in New York, where a review conference on nuclear non-proliferation is under way.
On Monday, the U.S. revealed that the country had a total of 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile.
The obvious reality is that any nation, nuclear or non-nuclear actually compromise their nation's safety by maintaining a nuclear stockpile. If a country is not armed it is not a first strike target. THAT reality should be a focus on any country with plans to avoid the proliferation of its own vulnerabilities. Just maintaining a nuclear weapon capacity does not 'insure' a nation's safety at all. Any nuclear nation is vulnerable, the only reason nuclear capacity is important at all it so maintain its government and military infrastructure. The idea that the populous of even a nuclear country is safe is hideous to believe. The most vulnerable in any nuclear attack is the populous, not the military or the government.
The idea of limiting any nuclear exchange seems like a distant goal, but, in reality it is as soon as the summit that completes the agreement and the verification of its legislature with 'mutual inspections' of fail safe arrangements of weapon deployment that insures 'first strike' is never nuclear.
...The Pentagon said it had 5,113 nuclear warheads at the end of September 2009 which represented an 84 percent reduction from its maximum stockpile of 31,255 at the end of fiscal year 1967 -- three years after the Cuban missile crisis....
http://www.examiner.com/x-31506-International-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m5d4-US-reveals-size-of-nuke-arsenal
The fact there are five nuclear countries is always the frustration of the non-nuclear countries. By disclosing the number of nuclear warheads to the world that the USA possesses the country risks nothing. I imagine the issue of 'legitimacy' will haunt the nations that are non-nuclear before the other five nuclear nations will work on complete reduction to a reasonable level of stockpiles.
Iran is understandably upset at the idea that other nations can reach their Shi'ite nation while feeling helpless, however, it has allies that are very strong and capable nuclear nations. The fear Iran has is unreasonable. I have no doubt Iran will try to hold the USA by the throat to say it needs to work on reducing its stockpiles before any other nation should cooperate. That is a ridiculous demand considering the TRUTH and facts to the issue that Iran has aspirations that are outside the definition of Non-Proliferation.
Iran is understandably upset at the idea that other nations can reach their Shi'ite nation while feeling helpless, however, it has allies that are very strong and capable nuclear nations. The fear Iran has is unreasonable. I have no doubt Iran will try to hold the USA by the throat to say it needs to work on reducing its stockpiles before any other nation should cooperate. That is a ridiculous demand considering the TRUTH and facts to the issue that Iran has aspirations that are outside the definition of Non-Proliferation.
There are great incentives to disarm from nuclear capacity for the people of any nation, including the nuclear nations. The first step to such safety for a populous is to have treaties that state, any confrontation between nuclear countries will be dictated by conventional weapons in any first strike. It limits a nation from surprising another resulting in a barrage of nuclear warhead exchange that could have been averted. The idea that any first strike capacity should be completely limited to conventional weapons allows a populous to prepare and protect from any future exchange of weapons far greater.
The Geneva Conventions are the citizens' best friend. Conventional engagements are supposed to be used only at disabling the military infrastructure and the civilians are not suppose to be the targets. To have nations agree to limit the use of nuclear weapons to 'last measure' decisions is to insure in a greater capacity the safety of a nation's populous.
...The Pentagon said it had 5,113 nuclear warheads at the end of September 2009 which represented an 84 percent reduction from its maximum stockpile of 31,255 at the end of fiscal year 1967 -- three years after the Cuban missile crisis....
http://www.examiner.com/x-31506-International-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m5d4-US-reveals-size-of-nuke-arsenal
Ahmadinejad Calls U.S. Arsenal Disclosure ‘Positive’ (Update2)
May 04, 2010, 5:14 PM EDT (Adds Ahmadinejad on U.S. relations in last paragraph.)
By Bill Varner
May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the U.S. disclosure yesterday of the size of its nuclear weapon arsenal was “a positive step forward.”
The Iranian leader, speaking to reporters today in New York, called for an “independent supervisory body” to verify the U.S. nuclear figures. Ahmadinejad criticized the U.S. yesterday in a speech to a United Nations nuclear conference during which Iran came under pressure to allay international concerns it is pursuing the development of an atomic weapon.
“They want us to prove something that does not exist,” the Iranian leader said of the suspected nuclear-arms program.
Disclosure of the U.S. bomb tally is part of an effort by President Barack Obama to set an example of transparency and willingness to pare its nuclear weaponry in hopes of compelling other nations to follow suit....
Hillary Clinton claims Iran is non-compliant, putting world at nuclear risk
May 4, 4:00 PM
Isabelle Zehnder
May 4, 2010 - In an effort to build support for new United Nations sanctions on Iran, Clinton said Tehran evaded responsibility, is non-compliant, and is putting the world at nuclear risk.
NBCreported U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that Iran is in violation of a treaty designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
Clinton addresses the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) conference at United Nations headquarters, Monday.
"Iran is the only country represented in this hall that has been found by the IAEA board of governors to be currently in non-compliance with its nuclear safeguard obligations," Clinton said in a speech to a Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference at the United Nations.
"It has defied the U.N. Security Council and the IAEA and placed the future of the non-proliferation regime in jeopardy, and that is why it is facing increasing isolation and pressure from the international community," she said.
http://www.examiner.com/x-43367-International-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m5d4-Hillary-Clinton-claims-Iran-is-noncompliant-putting-world-at-nuclear-risk
