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There's an exclusive game in town that's been around now for about 40 years - it's known as the 'NUCLEAR AMBIGUITY' position.


There's an exclusive game in town that's been around now for about 40 years - it's known as the 'NUCLEAR AMBIGUITY' position.

 

The object is, or was, to secretly amass as many nuclear warheads as possible without anyone knowing, whilst vociferously objecting at every available opportunity to anyone else having a nuclear weapon. In other words, refusing to accept non-proliferation for others - but not for itself.

 

It's a very special game in that it has only one player - but it has family members in the Halls of Power in America and Europe and so is able to continue to play this extraordinarily simple but dangerous stratagem, ad infinitum.

 

That is until this week, when a Nuclear Conference, which apparently was ignorant of the rules - or someone forgot to tell it - decided to make public the fact that a Middle Eastern state had an estimated 300-500 nuclear warheads in an underground site in the Negev desert, which had never been declared to or inspected by the International Atomic Energy Agency.  Enough nuclear power to sink the whole of the Middle East and most of Europe.

 

The result being that the 'NUCLEAR AMBIGUITY' lark must be now effectively considered dead, finished, caput!   Because a state that is hiding an undeclared nuclear arsenal of that size is too dangerous to be allowed to get away with it.

 

The world will have to act now to dismantle this nuclear arsenal that has illegitimately made Israel possibly the 3rd most powerful nuclear state in the world, after Russia and America.

 

And the burning question is: why did the United States, throughout every presidency since John Kennedy, collude in this game of 'NUCLEAR AMBIGUITY' that had so disadvantaged the whole of Europe?  Why did the US veto every resolution pertaining to this issue?

 

Why should a political and trading block of over 500 million people be beholden to a tiny Mediterranean state with a demographic just over 1% of that of the EU?

 

Why should a political lobby that effectively decides US foreign policy also dictate to Europe?

 

Since last week, these are the burning questions of the day which urgently require answers.

 


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I find I worry less about nukes than many people. Only the US has ever used them (against a non-nuclear state). They seem to concentrate the mind of the state holding them. If we can draw any conclusions about their effect on diplomacy and war it is that they reduce direct conflict between nuclear states, and encourage diplomacy. No one has discovered an actual use for them except in extremis, thus they are only a deterrent.

The problem is not states having them, but states possibly losing control of them.

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Not worried about Israeli nukes? I dare you to go to Lebanon or Gaza and say the same thing. Ask what the people there have to say about Israel possessing undeclared nuclear weapons.

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