Dr Strangelove or How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb (Nuclear Proliferation)

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On October, 9th 2006, North Korea annonced it had conducted a nuclear test successfully. The news struck the international community. The galloping spread of nuclear technologies and knowledge to nations that do not already have these capabilities, such as North Korea, but also Iran, is alarming.
The present file comprises five articles. The first three articles come from The Economist and were published from February 2004 to June 2006. The last two articles were published in Indian Today, an English Hindi news magazine, on July 2006.

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[...] This black-market, led by Dr Khan, could supply some terrorist groups with nuclear weapons, since “Osama Ben Laden called to acquire nuclear weapons as a “religios duty” (The Economist, March 2005). Terrorist attacks are often targeted to maximize fear and publicity. Al Quada reached that grievious goals with the September, 11th 2001 attacks, the Madrid train bombing in 2004 or the London bombings in 2005. But if it was prouved that such a terrorist group could own a mass destruction weapon, the international security would be deeply undermined. [...]

[...] A transition to a nuclear-freer world cannot be safely managed since the states cling to their prerogatives, amoung which is the defense of security. We should maybe follow the advice of the novelist Peter George : stop worrying and learn to love the Bomb”. [...]

[...] Dr Strangelove or How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb (Nuclear Proliferation) On October, 9th 2006, North Korea annonced it had conducted a nuclear test successfully. The news struck the international community. The galloping spread of nuclear technologies and knowledge to nations that do not already have these capabilities, such as North Korea, but also Iran, is alarming. The present file comprises five articles. The first three articles come from The Economist and were published from February 2004 to June 2006. [...]

[...] The Cuban missile crisis, no doubt the most serios episode in the Cold War, was also its turning point. Nuclear limitation was necessary. Since 1968, many treaties have been signed to curb nuclear proliferation sovereign states were party to the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty signed in 1968. It was a three-pillar treaty aiming at questionning the nuclear proliferation, but also promoting disarmament. However, nuclear power can be used to civilian pupose. These “noble efforts to curb the flow” have gone on along the century. [...]

[...] Not only is the nuclear proliferation alarming but also the inefficiency to cap it. Nuclear proliferation has become uncontrollable. Neither the treaties and the United Nations Organisation nor the official nuclear power, such as the United States, are able to impose restriction to the galloping nuclear proliferation. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty, signed by 188 sovereign states revealed itself fallible. India, Pakistan and Israel refused to be part of it right from the beginnig without much troubles. When North Korea and Lybia left the NPT, the retaliations of the international community were minimal and did not deter North Korea from going on its nuclear program. [...]