Not just N Koreans & Iranians, there is HUGE NUKE CLUB out there !

[uncleyap]

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Not just N Koreans & Iranians, there is HUGE NUKE CLUB out there










I am able to easily point out a list of countries that are 99.9% capable of nuclear attacks possessing the warheads right now. This must include Israel; Japan; South Korea; Taiwan, who are not officially admitted into the WORLD NUKE CLUB.

It is no secret that many countries including African nation already had nuclear power plants for decades and their technology levels & financial resources are way past the curbs to become a nuclear armed nation, the curb is getting lower by each month. The entire publicity game played against just North Korean & Iranian is purely political and hoodwinking the world. Soon enough half the world will be nuclear armed. The so called Terrorists will also be nuclear armed if they are not already so.


For a good start, the public opinion and media focus are now setting eyes on the European list of non-official NUKE CLUB members.

What is this childish denial about? There no truth and totally lack convincing power! There is at least a dozen nations which had not openly conducted nuclear test but are fully capable of nuclear attacks right now, tell the world this truth!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091202/wl_time/08599194379900;_ylt=AhkYZ_fE2V9rCHyet4EGWuNvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTJkdWhxamxwBGFzc2V0A3RpbWUvMjAwOTEyMDIvMDg1OTkxOTQzNzk5MDAEcG9zAzYEc2VjA3luX21vc3RfcG9wdWxhcgRzbGsDZXVyb3BlMzlzc2Vj">Yahoo news: Europe's Secret Nuclear Weapons: What Should NATO Do?




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[uncleyap]

Europe's Secret Nuclear Weapons: What Should NATO Do?


<!-- end .related-media --> <cite class="vcard"> By EBEN HARRELL Eben Harrell </cite> – <abbr title="2009-12-02T08:35:00-0800" class="timedate">Wed Dec 2, 11:35 am ET</abbr>
<!-- end .byline --> Is Italy capable of delivering a thermonuclear strike? Could the Belgians and the Dutch drop hydrogen bombs on enemy targets? And what about Germany - a country where fear of atomkraft is so great that the last government opposed all civilian nuclear power? Germany's air force couldn't possibly be training to deliver bombs 13 times more powerful than the one that destroyed Hiroshima, could it?
It is Europe's dirty secret that the list of nuclear-capable countries extends beyond those - Britain and France - who have built their own weapons. Nuclear bombs are stored on air-force bases in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands - and planes from each of those countries are capable of delivering them. The Federation of American Scientists believes that there are some 200 B61 thermonuclear gravity bombs scattered across these four countries. Under a NATO agreement struck during the Cold War, the bombs, which are technically owned by the U.S., can be transferred to the control of a host nation's air force in times of conflict. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dutch, Belgian, Italian and German pilots remain ready to engage in nuclear war. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599194379900/34282043/SIG=11v6plhbc/*http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1887705,00.html" target="_blank">(See pictures of the worst nuclear disasters of all time.)
These weapons are more than an anachronism or historical oddity. They are a violation of the spirit of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) - the 1968 agreement governing nuclear weapons that acts as one of the linchpins of global security by providing a legal restraint on the nuclear ambitions of rogue states. Because "nuclear burden-sharing," as the dispersion of B61s in Europe is called, was set up before the NPT came into force, it is technically legal. But as signatories to the NPT, the four European countries and the U.S. have pledged "not to receive the transfer ... of nuclear weapons or control over such weapons directly, or indirectly." That, of course, is precisely what the long-standing NATO arrangement entails.
While burden-sharing was generally tolerated during the Cold War, it has become an irritant at recent NPT review conferences, where the nonaligned countries have used it as an example of the U.S.'s failure to take serious steps toward nuclear disarmament - part of its obligation under the treaty. The issue re-entered the public discourse in Europe last year, when a U.S. Air Force report found that the European air-force bases storing the weapons were failing to meet basic security requirements http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599194379900/34282043/SIG=11v071ij9/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1816035,00.html" target="_blank">to safeguard the weapons. These revelations cemented the unpopularity of the agreement. Belgium's Parliament had already unanimously requested that NATO withdraw the weapons, while a 2006 poll found that almost 70% of people in the four countries want the U.S. nukes withdrawn. In October, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle declared that "Germany has to set a good example when it comes to disarmament by getting the atomic weapons stationed in this country removed." Westerwelle added that President Barack Obama's speech in Prague in April, in which the President called for countries to renew the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, had "opened the door" to a nuclear-weapons-free Europe. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599194379900/34282043/SIG=11vjbuq09/*http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1929398,00.html" target="_blank">(See pictures of Obama's eight months of diplomacy.)
But the U.S. and NATO military leaderships remain protective of the weapons. As recently as December 2008, the Secretary of Defense Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Management, chaired by former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, said the weapons were an important guarantee of NATO security and also supported nonproliferation efforts by preventing allied states from developing their own weapons programs. The report concluded that the presence of B61s in Europe "remains an essential political and military link between European and North American members of the alliance."
These justifications infuriated arms-control experts, who pointed out that NATO countries continue to be protected by the hundreds of land- and submarine-based long-range nuclear-tipped missiles. "The nuclear umbrella can be continued by long-range forces just like it was in the Pacific after [nuclear] weapons were withdrawn from South Korea in 1991," says Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists, who closely monitors nuclear weapons in Europe. As for the concern that allied countries might be driven to develop their own nuclear-weapons programs, http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599194379900/34282043/SIG=11rrjhkkt/*http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/01/schlesingerreport.php" target="_blank">Kristensen was scathing in a recent blog post: "How many [European] countries would seriously consider acquiring their own weapons if things changed? Denmark? Iceland? Lithuania? Luxembourg? Portugal? Seriously!" http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/wl_time/storytext/08599194379900/34282043/SIG=11v88k79c/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1890189,00.html" target="_blank">(Read "Reducing Nuclear Weapons: How Much Is Possible?")
Obama's ongoing "nuclear posture review" and NATO's review of its strategic concept may call for an end to the burden-sharing arrangement. But if Obama fails to address the issue - and if NATO doesn't come to an agreement - countries may choose to take their own steps to get rid of the weapons. In 2001, when the Greek air force ordered a new fighter jet, it chose a model that could not carry the B61, forcing the U.S. to withdraw its weapons there. Germany may soon retire its own Tornado fighter jet, opting instead for the Eurofighter, which can't carry B61s. "NATO countries are currently answering the question backward. We are allowing aircraft selection to determine our posture," says Heather Conley, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Given that Europe's nuclear arsenal is so unpopular, potentially unsafe and a hindrance to global nonproliferation efforts, it's time for it to go.


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[steffychun]

Africa is a nuclear free zone after South Africa ditched ints nuke programme in the early 1990s.

 

[uncleyap]

Africa is a nuclear free zone after South Africa ditched ints nuke programme in the early 1990s.

Everyone that is not far enough from Israel and have some money and technical knowledge must try to survive by getting some nuke handy, in case they face aggression.
:p
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/egypt/nuke/index.html

Nuclear Weapons Program

Egypt has not engaged in significant efforts to develop a nuclear weapons capability. Evidently Egypt has decided to concentrate on increasing conventional forces, and chemical and biological weapons, rather than developing nuclear weapons. The Egyptian nuclear program was launched in 1954. Egypt acquired its first nuclear reactor from the Soviet Union in 1961. The two megawatt reactor was opened by President Gamal Abdel-Nasser at Inchass, in the Nile Delta. The Soviets controlled the disposal of this small nuclear research reactor's spent fuel, which in any event was not capable of producing a significant amount of weapons-grade material. Egyptian nuclear ambitions were discarded following the 1967 defeat at the hands of Israel. Egypt signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968 but delayed ratifying it, presumably because the government had evidence that Israel had embarked on a nuclear weapons program. Subsequently, Egypt lost many of its nuclear experts who had to travel abroad to seek work opportunities. Some emigrated to Canada and others joined the Iraqi nuclear program. At the same time, however, serious work on developing nuclear potential designated for use in power engineering, agriculture, medicine, biotechnology, and genetics continues. Industrial incorporation of four explored uranium deposits is planned, including the extraction and enrichment of uranium for subsequent use as fuel for atomic power plants.
In 1975 the United States agreed in principle on a program to supply Egypt with power reactors. The US promised to provide Egypt with eight nuclear power plants and the necessary cooperation agreements were signed. The plan was subject to a trilateral safeguards agreement signed by the United States, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Egypt. In the late 1970s, the US unilaterally revised the bilateral agreements and introduced new conditions that were unacceptable to the Egyptian government. As a result, the decision was taken to ratify the NPT, with one goal in mind – the implementation of a nuclear power program.
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[steffychun]

FAS is a old an odated site run by the Americans. So why do you trust it?

Asnd is that your only piece of fact? This will never pass in a classroom.