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“Being able to make nuclear arms doesn’t mean having them” – expert

Being able to make nuclear arms doesn’t mean having them” – expert

Russia Today 29 June, 2009, 11:08

Russia and the US have about 27,000 nuclear warheads – enough to destroy the planet several times over. Nuclear disarmament specialist Gareth Evans says reducing stockpiles should be the main priority of global powers. Australia’s former nuclear research and foreign minister Gareth Evans is the president of the International Crisis Group. Evans also coaches International Commission for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament which held its third meeting in Moscow on June 20-21……………………Gareth Evans: “………………At least by the end of this year we can get an agreement on the continuation of the basic treaty between Russia and the United States, we can get some significant reduction in the number of strategic weapons that are actually deployed. And that this, in turn, will create a further momentum not only for further US-Russia negotiations, but for everybody else………………………. a particular threat is we know that the North Koreans are being only too keen to sell their missile technology and hardware to other countries……………………….The truth of the matter is that the problem of nuclear proliferation and disarmament is right up there as one of the Big Three global problems……………………………. the risk that more and more countries will go on acquiring nuclear weapons for misguided reasons about their own security, if we don’t turn around our system as it now is. And remember that with nuclear weapons we are talking about a class of weapons that are perfectly capable of wiping out the planet, and wiping out the planet in a space of just a few weeks, compared with the fifty hundred centuries of climate change.”

“Being able to make nuclear arms doesn’t mean having them” – expert | Politics from 2009-06-29 | RT

June 30, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized