Saturday, August 06, 2005
Never Again? How the War in Iraq Spurred a New Nuclear Arms Race
As the world prepares to mark the anniversary of Hiroshima, Iran is poised to go nuclear amid a new global arms race, by Anne Penketh
Tomorrow at 8.15am, a minute's silence will reverberate around the world. The people of Japan will commemorate the victims of the first atomic bomb, which was dropped by an American B-29 on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
Half a world away, in Tehran, the new hard man of Iranian politics, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will take the oath of office before the country's parliament. His presidency heralds a new era of uncertainty in Iran's fraught relations with the West over its nuclear ambitions.
In Beijing, urgent talks on curbing North Korea's nuclear weapons program are close to collapse. And in Pakistan, efforts are still being made to roll up the world's biggest nuclear proliferation scandal. Sixty years after Hiroshima, whose single bomb killed 237,062 people, a new nuclear arms race has begun.
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# posted by Eric Klein @ 8/06/2005 09:39:00 PM 
