Being Realistic about Nuclear Proliferation

by Peter Jenkins
February 13th, 2015 | http://www.lobelog.com/being-realistic-about-nuclear-proliferation/#respond
Earlier this week, after a closed White House briefing on Iran, Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) said: “Instead of preventing proliferation, we are managing proliferation. If we enter a new world order where we are going to manage proliferation…. that is a different and far more challenging world.”
It seems likely that he was consciously echoing Henry Kissinger, who told the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 29: “Nuclear talks with Iran began as an international effort … to deny Iran the capability to develop a military nuclear option. They are now an essentially bilateral negotiation over the scope of that capability through an agreement that sets a hypothetical limit of one year on an assumed breakout. The impact of this approach will be to move from preventing proliferation to managing it.”
What Corker and Kissinger are suggesting is that:

• Iran’s uranium enrichment program equals nuclear proliferation. It does not.
• Preventing Iran from acquiring uranium enrichment facilities is an affordable option for the United States. It is not.
• Depriving Iran of its enrichment facilities would be lawful. The conditions for it to be lawful do not exist.

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