Re: Space station future adrift (Soyuz purchase crisis)

From: John Doe (jdoe_at_doe.org)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:36:00 -0500

Revision wrote:
> The Iranians aren't helping things at all on this front. While they have
> apparently given some sort of agreement not to produce weapons-grade
> uranium, they still operate a 40 MW plutonium production reactor.

Tyere are a great many countries that have nuclear reactors and programmes.
The USA is far from having some sort of monopoly on this. Brasil refuses IAEA
inspectors in some of its facilities, claiming it has proprietary technology.
Yet, you don't hear the USA threathetning to invade Brasil. Canad has
developped its own nuclear technology, very different from the proprietary USA
nukular technology. When Edison invented electricity, he had a monopoly on how
to generate it. But today, every country in the world knows how to make it.
Same for nuclear. It isn't some black magic.

If the USA is so worried about nukes in the middle east, perhaps it shoudl
start with its own 51st state: Isreal. Everyone known it has the bomb, yet
Isarel refuses to admit to it, yet you don't see the USA making such a big
fuss about IAEA inspectors not being allowed to do their job in Isarel.

Yet, the USA treats neighbours in the region very differently. And when you
send a striong message that you will invade any weak country like Iraq, but
not invade countries that have the bomb, you are giving a very strong
incentive for those countyries to get the bomb, especially if you were stupid
enough to list those countries as your next tarket for your campaign of
whatever. (axis of evil).

If you go back to the end of the Shah, you will find that it was the USA which
convinced Iraq to embarq on a nuclear programme to generate electricityy
beyond the days where oil was sufficient.

The trade sanctions against Russia are just plain silly. If it had been
Britain that had sold its nuclear systems to Iran, the USA wouldn't have put
such sanctions against the UK.

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