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A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? (thebulletin.org)
Lasrick writes: Hugh Gusterson thinks a symposium sponsored by the U.S. Energy Department was the first sign that the Administration is readying a push to finally ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). "Conceding that the earlier drive to ratify the treaty in 1999 ended in a humiliating defeat for the Clinton Administration, [Secretary of State John Kerry] said that "the factors that led some senators to oppose the treaty have changed, so [senators'] choices should change too." The article goes into the technology that has developed over the last 15 years that make testing unnecessary.
The entire "civilized world" has just proven with Iran, that it lacks the will to enforce any restrictions of the spread of nukes.
If a small backward country like Iran, or North Korea cannot be prevented from becoming a nuclear power, because everybody is afraid to confront them or thinks it can make money dealing with them, then just how willing will the same nations be to enforce limits on a bigger nation that already has nukes?????
The sad fact is that the treasonous bastards at the Bulletin are just up to their old tricks - trying to convince the most-foolish portions of the populations of the best nations (who while very imperfect are none the less the least-worst nations) into limiting their power to defend themselves and deter others. The jerks at the Bulletin were somehow apparently by completely innocent oversight uninterested in worrying enough about nukes in the hands of the worst nations and uninvolved in trying to stir-up anti-nuke activities in THOSE nations. The truth, of course, is that as extreme leftists they spent the Cold War cheering for the bad guys, and they still are more interested in disarming the west than worrying about all the bad guys who are nuking-up.
Remember: Bill Clinton assured HIS treaty with North Korea, negotiated by the same team of Democrat activists, would prevent from them from going nuclear - using similar language to what Obama used re Iran. That worked out well right? (hint: N.K. now has nukes and claims to have missiles that can hit Los Angeles)