US PRESIDENT George Bush’s plea on 11 February to stop the spread of nuclear weapons has not been greeted with universal acclaim. It is flawed, critics say, because it ignores the bombs and technologies that can give birth to such weapons in the US, the UK, France and Japan.
Even Mohamed ElBaradei, the director-general of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, was diplomatically blunt. “We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security,” he said.
Others point out…
