Our thinking about the current so-called rogue states and their leaders North Korea, Iran and Iraq, and elsewhere is very, very reminiscent of it, and out of frustration today with the inadequacy of deterrents alone in
protecting us from these dictators, we are once again considering the war-fighting use of U.S. nuclear weapons to deal with them (1600) Picking up on a trend started, again, during the Clinton years, the
Bush nuclear policy review, completed earlier this year, advances several ideas that are quite inimical to the non-pr
...[+++]oliferation treaty and to elimination, such as a new bunker-buster nuclear weapon, which, by the way, Congress is authorizing funds for as we speak; and for example, the Bush nuclear policy, among other things, calls for increasing our readiness to resume nuclear testing and calls for building a new plutonium pit factory capable of building 500 nuclear cores for 500 nuclear weapons per year.
La façon dont nous pensons aux soi-disant États voyous actuels et à leurs leaders—la Corée du Nord, l'Iran et l'Irak, entre autes—nous le rappelle sans contredit. C'est aujourd'hui par frustration face à l'insuffisance des moyens de dissuasion qui, à eux seuls, ne peuvent pas nous protéger de ces dictateurs, que nous envisageons une fois de plus le recours aux armes nucléaires américaines qui nous semble être le seul moyen de combattre l'ennemi (1600) Reprenons une tendance amorcée pendant les années Clinton, la révision de la politique nucléaire de Bush, terminée plus tôt cette année.
