Monday, October 18, 2010

A Nuclear-Weapons Free World?

Idealistic people are trying to get rid of the world of nuclear weapons and pressurizing the developed countries in the process but are it realistic to assume that if the nuclear armed countries go cold turkey, the rest of the hot spots with nuclear weapons would do the same. It is hard to be realistic because it is painful. Israel has undeclared nuclear weapons and Iran is pursuing them vigorously. Do you ever believe that Pakistan is going to give up nuclear weapons in the face of the more powerful India with bigger armed forces?

And then there is the case of North Korea, which still refuses to give up its nuclear arsenal and keeps on threatening the Korean Peninsula. Do you ever think that if the five declared nuclear powers give up their weapons that peace will break out instantly? Pakistan and North Korea are in a desperate situation and will not give up their nukes until everybody else (including India and Israel does) but even then they won’t give up because that is how they maintain their minimum deterrence against much larger foes. So unless we go back to some primitive time, the world is still going to be awash in nuclear weapons no matter what the declared intentions are on the contrary.

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