The New Republic Daily
Report
11/25/10
Forget START: Obama's Terrible Plan to Spread Nuclear
Weapons. Henry Sokolski *|FACEBOOK:LIKE:http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/79432/obama-loves-nukes-start|*
President Obama is currently engrossed in a battle
over the ratification of his New START treaty with Russia—along with the urgent
news that North Korea’s previously covert uranium enrichment program is up and
running, and now affords it something else scary to export. Yet, there is
another related issue that Mr. Obama must decide upon, which could easily do as
much damage to his drive toward zero nuclear weapons: How will America handle
the overt spread of civilian nuclear technologies which other countries might
divert to make bombs?
Last year, President Obama finalized a nuclear cooperation agreement
with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The deal would allow the United States to
provide technology to help the UAE generate nuclear energy, but only if the UAE
meets a new set of nonproliferation conditions. First, the UAE must forego
making nuclear fuel. Second, it must open its nuclear facilities up to intrusive
nuclear inspections established by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
under a set of rules known as the Additional Protocol. The administration
proudly proclaimed this arrangement as the international nonproliferation "gold
standard."
The Most Successful Cause of the 1960s: Soviet
Jews Yossi Klein Halevi *|FACEBOOK:LIKE:http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/79086/soviet-union-jews-movement|*
The Best Puritans Ever, and Our Favorite Pieces About
Them. TNR Staff *|FACEBOOK:LIKE:http://www.tnr.com/slideshow/79426/puritans|*
