US Nuclear Hypocrisy: Bad for the US, Bad for the World
by David Krieger, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

The spectacular failure of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference was predictable at the outset and is overwhelmingly attributable to the nuclear policies of the Bush administration and its unwillingness to accept US obligations for nuclear disarmament under the treaty. The Bush administration simply does not seem to understand that it cannot go back on previous US commitments under the treaty and continue to promote nuclear weapons in its own arsenal, while exhorting other nations to forego their nuclear options.

The treaty is crumbling under the double standards of American policy. It may not be able to recover from the rigid and "do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do" positions of the Bush administration, which are viewed by most of the world as high-level nuclear hypocrisy.


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