America, my sad misguided country, through its latest so-called international summit on nuclear proliferation, continues to display the ultimate forms of arrogance and hypocrisy that make me feel like throwing up! By failing to apologize to the world for its past crimes and its continued development and usage of weapons of mass destruction, America fails the test of basic decency, honesty and good intentions.

Instead of focusing on its criminal past and present and taking unilateral steps to prove its good intentions to make amends, its misguided politicians, from the president down, continue to pick up on the relatively peaceful nation of Iran, who, even for the sake of argument, is many years away from developing their first midget nuclear weapon, assuming they have a secret plan to do so, while covering for its partner in crimes, Israel, with its known arsenal of some 200 to 300 nuclear bombs.

I was again put to shame of being an American tax-payer when our highly rhetorical, yet not-so-good-intentioned president, brushed away a pointed question from a journalist about Israel’s nuclear arsenal.

And worst of all, there will be always those who are in denial that, at worst, Israel controls America, or, at best, America uses Israel to do its most dirty work in the region!

The UN has five PERMANENT members of the Security Council!
These are made up of the UK?, France?, USA?, Russia and China.
Where is the representation for Europe, North and South America, Africa and all the Islands which include Australia/New Zealand.
The veto, used within the Security Council, should be removed from these Countries and replaced by majority voting.
If this Council cannot be expanded to include these Continents,(with a rotation method used within these continents, including North America and Europe) then the UN should be split into two, one to represent the Southern Hemisphere; we are all in favour of democratic representation, are we not??
With a short comment about this nuclear weapons conference: the United States appear to have a serious problem with the possibility of Iran obtaining a nuclear capability.
I would suggest that it contacts its favoured nation, namely Israel, with orders to attend the next meeting or else, with a view to dismantling their undeclared stockpile of nuclear weapons; then, and only then, can the US confront Iran on its nuclear intentions.

ISRAEL Needs to STOP MAKING THREATS and They Need to GET RID OF THEIR NUKES too…....ANd Live The WAY of GOD not SATAN…....................PERIOD

“what Obama’s nuclear weapons conference missed”

there is not enough space on this thread !!!!!

Such “summits” are doomed to remain pretty much of a political charade unless the world can form a commonly accepted definition og “terrorism.”

The nuclear pall that has been hanging over the world ever since the development of The Bomb has been nothing but terrorism, called “deterence” or “mutually assured destruction” for reasons of confusion and disinformation..
The danger of accident, if not of intention, is terrifying.  Therefore, it must be removed by destoying nuclear weapons and outlawing their use.

Russia and the U.S. are both responsible for this fifty years of terrorizing, and therefore have the responsibility to admit it, and to bring it to an end by taking the initiative. Setting the meeting in the context of “terrorists” is misleading and not helpful in the long term.

Another overlooked aspect of the problem is the status factor.  So long as any country gains “status” from holding nuclear weapons, all countries will insist upon the same avenue to “status.”

I was listening to John Mueller and John Steinbach on DemocracyNow this morning. Mueller’s a professor of political science at Ohio State University. He is the author of Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda and Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them.

Basically, terrorists are extraordinarily unlikely to be able to get a nuclear weapon because they are under lock and key, are extremely difficult to work, need extremely sophisticated delivery systems and are unbelievably expensive. Most terrorists aren’t that rich, and someone might notice if they started to spend a lot of money!!As John Mueller says, the chances of terrorists getting the bomb are “about the same likelihood as the United States being hit by an asteroid, something like one in three-and-a-half billion”.

The fact that Iran, North Korea and Syria weren’t invited is like a childish ploy not to invite someone to their party.

Steinbach pointed out that in the “early 1970s, it became obvious that Israel had a nuclear weapons program and, in fact, already had perhaps a dozen nuclear weapons. It became a difficult political situation, and Nixon met with Prime Minister Golda Meir, and they made a deal that the United States would stop pressing Israel about its nuclear weapons program, and in return, that Israel would never acknowledge publicly that it had nuclear weapons. This policy has continued to this very day. It’s not a secret. The world knows that Israel has nuclear weapons. Hans Blix last year said everybody knows Israel has about 200 nuclear weapons. Ehud Barak last year let loose that it has the nuclear weapons. Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear technician, back in 1986 released several hundreds of photographs to the Sunday London Times. It was examined by Frank Barnaby and Ted Taylor, high-ranking Manhattan Project scientists. They concluded twenty-five years ago that Israel had a hundred sophisticated nuclear weapons and the hydrogen bomb.

I think we need to contrast this absurd situation. All the nations in the Middle East have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran, which is technically not part of the Middle East, has also signed it. Iran, over the last ten years, has undergone the most intensive scrutiny by the IAEA of any nation in the entire world. On the basis that it might be trying to acquire nuclear weapons, in the meantime, you have Israel that not only has hundreds of nuclear weapons, but it has a very powerful, very sophisticated delivery system that includes submarines, missiles and bombers.

Pairing off [tacitly, tho] nat’l behavior into reckless one and not reckless one with so much “recklessness” [double quotes means that i am using the word as pfaff is using it; and only gods know what that animal means] in the world appears eristic.

The facts clearly prove that nato lands, india, pakistan, afgh’n, are doing by far more oppression and killings than n.korea.

If pfaff means that Korea may use WMD after it gets attacked by US-s.korea, and that wld be “reckless” to him and ?all fascists, why not say it?

But, do i ever expect any intelligence-honesty from a privately-owned scribe? tnx

Israel will do as it pleases and the rest of the world, including the United States, be damned.  Israel knows it can invade, murder, destroy and there will not be a single peep from any nation.
Consider that Iran is NO threat to the U.S.  WE are constantly threatening Iran.  If Iran is indeed attempting to build a nuclear weapon, can you blame it?