What does the Non-Proliferation Treaty need?
Agreeing with something Norman Lamont says? I never expected to find myself in that embarrassing situation and in fact it’s taken nuclear weapons to produce my change of heart. Lord (goodness me) Lamont recently pointed out a bit of a discrepancy in Western policy: Dr A Q Khan of Pakistan has admitted selling nuclear know-how to Libya, Iran and North Korea. Perhaps to others too he forgot to mention. What does the West do? Say “OK – but don’t do it again”. On the other hand we invaded Iraq because our government said it thought there were Weapons of Mass destruction there. With regard specifically to nuclear weapons the Government more or less admitted there weren’t any but pointed out that Iraq might have been tempted to develop them at some stage. So what does the UK Government actually think – and do – about non-proliferation? There are about 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world – the equivalent of 200,000 Hiroshimas. It seems to me every sensible person should be working to stop the
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