THE NEW U.S. APPROACH TO THE FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY: WILL DELETION OF A VERIFICATION REGIME PROVIDE A WAY OUT OF THE WILDERNESS?

THE NEW U.S. APPROACH TO THE FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY: WILL DELETION OF A VERIFICATION REGIME PROVIDE A WAY OUT OF THE WILDERNESS?

https://www.jlab.org/conferences/doecaa/talks/Jonas.pdf

this is illegal,

Nuclear proliferation and the concomitant potential for nuclear terrorism, is the greatest threat to the United States in the twenty-first century (actually it to the whole world, and the threat is coming mainly from america not to it). President Kennedy’s remarks, prescient as they were, did not foresee the threat from non-state actors and their quest for nuclear weapons. America (the world), must do all it can to prevent terrorist acquisition of nuclear capability. (and illegitimate governments and private corporations) Unfortunately, the United States has no choice in the matter. (lies, we always have  choice), Indeed, as Leon Trotsky once said, “you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” Potential terrorist acquisition of nuclear capability, confounds a guiding principle of international relations since the Peace of Westphalia, roughly four hundred years ago, when the nation-state system emerged in Europe. The principle is that only another state, with its power of vast armies and navies, could threaten or harm another state. Today, a few terrorists armed with a nuclear weapon, or other weapons of mass destruction, (WMD supplied by shady government agencies), can pose a threat equal to or greater than the military might, a sovereign state can summon. No other device can compare to the power of a nuclear weapon, to inflict unfathomable destruction. Other WMD, such as chemical or biological weapons, horrific as they are, seem less threatening by comparison. All WMD can destroy human life, livestock and animal life, and crops. But only nuclear weapons also destroy buildings and physical infrastructure, and do so on a vast scale  :(