Article is here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/10/world/meast/iran-nuclear-deal/
I think this article might be slightly outdated, it was from earlier in the year, so if something else happened feel free to correct me. It pretty much says that Iran and the US, UN, China and Russia are trying to come to an agreement about Iran's nuclear plans. It says that while the talks are still ongoing, they think they might have an agreement. It also talked about a bill in the senate that would "authorize new economic sanctions on Iran if it breaches an interim agreement to limit its nuclear program or fails to strike a final accord terminating those ambitions", and then talked about how President Obama has "threatened to veto any legislation that would authorize new economic sanctions on Iran, saying such a bill at this time would undermine delicate efforts to forge a lasting deal with Tehran".
So once again, I am not super educated when it comes to issues like these. I just feel like nobody should have nuclear weapons, including us. We should all just agree never to make them again and ship them all off into space or something. But I feel like that is NEVER going to happen, so the question is since they are going to exist how do we deal with them? I really don't know. I obviously don't want to get nuked by another country, but I also don't want us to be the police of the world. How do we find the balance? Thoughts?
As humans, I think that we all need a sense of our superiority. As the movie THE INCREDIBLES stated, "When everyone is super, no one will be." Right now, even the threat of nuclear war gives one country power over another. This political chess game has only a small part to do with the weapons themselves, it is what can be done with threats of said weapons.
ReplyDeleteI agree though. We should abandon weapons of mass destruction entirely.
Nuclear weapons are super scary and it would be fantastic if every country did what you suggested. However, like you said, that will never happen. So I think we should all just get along and never fight again so that we will never have a need for these weapons. Of course, that will never happen either. So as of right now, I feel like we are doing an adequate job at keeping nuclear production under control in our own country as well as other countries. Limiting and monitoring other country's nuclear production not only let's us know what we are up against, but it also helps us feel more protected knowing that they are limited in production. The issues regarding nuclear weapons won't stop anytime soon, but we can try our best to contain them for now.
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