The Darker Side of the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal
The recent “breakthrough” is cause more for concern than it is for celebration.
By Amitai Etzioni
February 13, 2015
米印原子力協力は、アメリカの対中政策のいっかんであるが、しかし、核不拡散体制を空洞化し、パキスタンとの軍拡を激化するから、凍結すべきである、と。
国際政治の勢力争いの現実からして、凍結にはならない、と思うが、日本の反核兵器の活動や報道が、広島・長崎の記念日だけの、お飾りの儀式だけになっているところにも注目。
核軍縮なんて嘘。
Obama proposes to boost spending for nuclear armaments
Warhead spending alone would grow faster than the overall military budget
By Douglas Birchemail 6:00 am, February 3, 2015 Updated: 3:41 pm, February 5, 2015
むしろ、予算は増やす方向。
NPTもかなり意義が薄れてきている。
日本も準備はしておかないと。
The recent “breakthrough” is cause more for concern than it is for celebration.
By Amitai Etzioni
February 13, 2015
The NPT has successfully discouraged several nations that had considered developing nuclear weapons and has even led a few of them to cancel programs that were already underway. This success was achieved in part through a twofold promise: that those nations that possess nuclear weapons will gradually give them up, and that these same nations will refuse to share nuclear technology and fuel with countries that refuse to sign the NPT. Two nations, India and Pakistan (and, by implication, Israel), openly defied the NPT. Hence the Bush administration’s deal with India was and is viewed as a major blow to the NPT regime.
Even more serious has been the deal’s impact on the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan. At first glance it may seem that the deal should have had no such impact, because the technology and fuel covered by the deal were meant to be used strictly for civilian purposes, specifically for producing electricity. However, as Charles D. Ferguson, president of the Federation of American Scientists, wrote in Arms Control Today, India was short on uranium. “If the nuclear deal were to fall through, India would be forced to stop running about half of its indigenously fueled reactors or only operate its [nuclear submarine] fleet at approximately 50 percent capacity.” It would also have to choose between shortchanging its civilian energy program and limiting its production of nuclear weapons. By granting India access to uranium, the deal allows India to divert its indigenously-mined uranium to military applications without detracting fuel from the civilian program. To get uranium to India, the U.S. pressured members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group to “[ease] long-standing restrictions on nuclear trade with India.”
It would be best for everyone involved to put the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement on ice
米印原子力協力は、アメリカの対中政策のいっかんであるが、しかし、核不拡散体制を空洞化し、パキスタンとの軍拡を激化するから、凍結すべきである、と。
国際政治の勢力争いの現実からして、凍結にはならない、と思うが、日本の反核兵器の活動や報道が、広島・長崎の記念日だけの、お飾りの儀式だけになっているところにも注目。
核軍縮なんて嘘。
Obama proposes to boost spending for nuclear armaments
Warhead spending alone would grow faster than the overall military budget
By Douglas Birchemail 6:00 am, February 3, 2015 Updated: 3:41 pm, February 5, 2015
むしろ、予算は増やす方向。
NPTもかなり意義が薄れてきている。
日本も準備はしておかないと。
