Topic: Nuclear proliferation (Read 106 times)

Not at all. The technology is more than 60 years old and any country with a civil nuclear reactor has fissile material (you do not need Uranium, Plutonium, a by-product is there. A few countries including South Africa have had programmes in the past and despite getting on the bad side of the US, EU, Ruzzia...

Non-proliferation is a two way street.

Well, if there is, then we will not have time to understand that there was an explosion

That's why other countries have to act on those that are using them against those that don't any resources. If they can do such to those countries, then for sure that they can aim also and do that to the others. Even in a war, there are rules still and this is one of them. They just can't use their nuclear weapons even if they are capable of and when they do, that's alarming to every country even in the farthest ones. How come these with such weapons can do to those that don't have it. Aren't we just going to see peace for as long as we live? 

I am sure that they all are thinking it. Reality to get access for materials and building them in secret is the hard part.

But i am assuming that attitude towards them is changing rapidly. it will become publicly more accepted for some sovereign countries to develop them and all nato countries to store them. And no one who already have nukes will ever get rid of them now. Ukraine did and look what happened. Bill Clinton already regrets for convincing to give them up, because that's the nr1 reason russia had the nerve to attack.

Why do they keep manufacturing the nukes then if there are never going to use it? My friend, think  

The US is soon going to lose control about the current world order it has had for decades. By invading countries, killing their civilians and supporting terrorists like Israel, Countries like North Korea or China won't give a shit about what the US will have to say in the near future. A nuclear war is imminent, whether you like it or not.

you think that's going to be the case for ever? If you don't have a plan of ever using it, should you create it in the first place.
The show off is not for nothing and you can't tell how far some states can go when they're pushed to the wall and they feel the likelihood of an enemy state making use of theres before them.

The proliferation of nuclear weapon is not healthy to humanities existence and the more it's spreading And world powers continue competing with themselves on who owns more of it, it's going to be a problem for the world if not for the now but in the years to come. Advancement in technology should be geared towards means of making life easier for man and not putting too much effort and resource into building systems that can extinct a whole region off the face of the earth by a single click.
 

No one ever uses it, because it's the end of everything.

Even if Trump had not canceled that deal (JCPOA), do you think that deal would still exist today as Israel continues to challenge peace in the Middle East? Given Israel's belligerent and arrogant stance in the Middle East, countries like Iran would not want to be bound by any agreement that would disadvantage them. Sooner or later they will abandon the deal and continue to push forward with their nuclear program because that is the only way they can protect themselves and maintain their existence.

If the big powers stopped being greedy and bullying the small countries, there would be no nuclear arms race at all. I wouldn't blame countries like Iran or North Korea because if they didn't, countries like the United States would seek to destroy them.

It is indeed terrifying to know that just pressing a button can cause great havoc to a country. Nuclear weapons are now been developed by many countries without restrictions. North Korea is at the forefront of the development of nuclear capabilities and I don't think they can be stopped. The close ties between Russia and the Asian country will not allow any military actions to be taken against them. Russia with the assistance of China will always veto resolutions to check North Korea's excesses. The West is using sanctions to limit their financial strength but it has not had much effect because Russia and its allies are helping NK to invade these sanctions.      

Iran knows that its only means of being relevant in the global political sphere is to keep increasing its nuclear technologies. Barack Obama made progress in bringing the country in check with a Nuclear Agreement called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which targeted reducing sanctions on Iran in exchange for dismantling the nuclear program and periodic international inspections. I see it as a good deal that would have reduced the tension in the Middle East but Donald Trump dumped the deal and Biden didn't consider it as important. The world is at risk that's why I just live a day per time.    

We also have (sadly) the historical precedent of North Korea, a small nation which has one of the most eccentric and toughest dictatorships in this planet and most of the people will agree it has not been dealt with yet because of the presence of nuclear weaponry in their arsenal, setting the rule straight on the effectiveness of nuclear weaponsto keeo foreign invasions from happening.It is not a coincidence the regime of North Korea continues to show off their nuclear test as often as they can, so they keep a constant reminder of their capabilities to the west, specially Japan, South Korea and the United States.
Unfortunately, It seems it will be just matter of time before Iran fully develops their own arsenal of nuclear weapons and their regime stays in place stronger than before, if such a thing happens, then I would not be surprised if Israel get their own nukes as well, handed over by USA.

At this moment there are at least two states that have nuclear weapons attacking other states that do not have nuclear weapons. The spirit of nuclear non-proliferation is that states with nukes would refrain from invading states without nukes and in exchange, these states with no nukes would not arm themselves with such weapons.

How many countries may now be thinking of arming themselves with nukes? Ukraine has certainly mentioned the topic, Iran could be next, the Saudi Arabia.

The irresponsibility of nuclear countries if putting the world at massive risk.