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How come USA will let Vietnam enrich uranium?

The Shotgun: Filibuster: The first nuclear commandment, Western Standard, 15 Aug 2010, In a story that did not get a lot of press this week, the Obama administration has announced that it plans to go ahead with a nuclear technology deal with the Communist nation of Vietnam, despite that country’s refusal to make a pledge to not enrich uranium.

Enriching uranium is the first step towards bomb-making, and we may recall, the whole brouhaha with Iran largely stems from President Ahmadinejad’s refusal to stop doing it. In a display of good global citizenship earlier last year, the United Arab Emirates promised the US that it would not enrich uranium as part of a similar binational nuke-tech deal, but Vietnam has not been quite so willing to roll over………
When Vietnam’s case study (to say nothing of Pakistan and China) is viewed in contrast to the treatment of Iran and North Korea, the principle that dictatorships should not be in the possession of nukes seems to be getting more hazy and arbitrarily enforced by the day…..

The Shotgun: Filibuster: The first nuclear commandment

August 17, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, Vietnam | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, reactors, uranium