Letter from Pakistan: How an unfair non-proliferation regime undermines nuclear security

By Zahir Kazmi | 30 August 2012

Article Highlights

• The positive elements of the Nuclear Security Summit process pale in comparison with the selective application of the global nuclear nonproliferation regime to developing states that seek to create nuclear power industries.
• Despite their failures to fully support nonproliferation efforts, India, Iran, and North Korea have been treated well under the global nonproliferation regime, but Pakistan, which vigorously supports the regime, has been denied membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
• If the overall nonproliferation system is to become equitable and therefore effective, it must allow the nuclear weapon states outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to participate in nuclear export-control cartels, so long as they contribute to controlling proliferation.http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/letter-pakistan-how-unfair-non-proliferation-regime-undermines-nuclear-security