Why are there no sanctions against the US for violating the non-proliferation treaty?

Question

The NPT requires the U.S. and other nuclear powers work as quickly as possible to rid the world of all nuclear weapons.

That was signed 39 years ago. What are we waiting for?

Answer 1

Exactly. America bribes all these idiots at the UN so they pay no never minds to its evil doing. See Iraq. Has the UN proposed anything to stop the US instigated wholesale slaughter of innocent people? NO!

Answer 2

You are either absoultely clueless or a total l***.

Treaty pillars

[edit] First pillar: non-proliferation
Five states are permitted by the NPT to own nuclear weapons: France (signed 1992), the People's Republic of China (1992), the Soviet Union (1968; obligations and rights now assumed by Russia), the United Kingdom (1968), and the United States (1968). The U.S., U.K., and Soviet Union were the only states openly possessing such weapons at the time the treaty was opened to signature, and these five nations are also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. These 5 Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) agree not to transfer "nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices" technology to other states, and non-NWS parties agree not to seek or develop nuclear weapons.

The 5 NWS parties have made undertakings not to use their nuclear weapons against a non-NWS party except in response to a nuclear attack, or a conventional attack in alliance with a Nuclear Weapons State. However, these undertakings have not been incorporated formally into the treaty, and the exact details have varied over time. The United States, for instance, has indicated that it may use nuclear weapons in response to a non-conventional attack by "rogue states"[citation needed]. The U.S. also had nuclear warheads targeted at North Korea, a non-NWS state, from 1959 until 1991. The previous United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon, has also explicitly invoked the possibility of the use of the country's nuclear weapons in response to a non-conventional attack by "rogue states"[2]. In January 2006, President Jacques Chirac of France indicated that an incident of state-sponsored terrorism on France could trigger a small-scale nuclear retaliation aimed at destroying the "rogue state's" power centers.[3][4]

Answer 3

Unfortunately, other countries are afraid of imposing sanctions on the US, because the rule of the Jungle (the powerful one is "right") dominates decisions.

Answer 4

If we could only get so Lucky as to have China Impose sanctions against us that would be GREAT then maybe we could actually go back to buying things MADE IN AMERICA .

Answer 5

Unlike other countries, the United States has the luxury of picking and choosing which treaties and agreements it will actually honor.

Sounds pretty fair and even handed, right?

Answer 6

It might be because if we sneeze the whole world catches a cold

Answer 7

Sanctions-smanctions,rules only apply to everyone else not the U.S.!

Answer 8

the US is in control,who will oppose them

here is more on violations by the US in regards to the NPT

http://www.ieer.org/latest/nptotfri.html

Answer 9

hahahahaha....who would enforce such sanctions? Who would do us the favor of not selling us their crap? They need us a heck of a lot more than we need them.