Hypocrisy

Iran gets new US nuclear warning, the BBC reports:

'Iran should abandon "forever" nuclear weapons ambitions, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told the United Nations General Assembly.'

Yet in his 2005 budget request to the Energy Department of the US Congress, Bush asked for

* $27.5m for research into the “bunker-buster” nuclear weapon;
* $9m to fund research into “advanced concept” low-yield tactical nuclear weapons;
* $29.8m for a site to build new nuclear triggers for thermonuclear warheads;

Thankfully Congress rejected some projects and reduced the budget allowance for others. (Information obtained from CND.)

Whilst America and Britain (together with various European countries and others) continue to hold and develop Nuclear weapons, we will never suceed in telling other countries that they are not allowed to have them. We are being hypocrits, pure and simple.

And don't give me that baloney about needing nuclear weapons as a deterrent. If a government is never prepared to use a weapon then it can never be a deterrent. And, if a government is prepared to use modern powerful nuclear weapons against another nuclear state, the result will make the recent Hurricanes look like a summer rain shower.