The U.S. has nuclear power plants. Why isn't anyone threatening them with sanctions and dire consequences?

Question

(referring to the Iran and their modern nuclear power capabilities.)

Answer 1

It's called hypocrisy

Answer 2

For starters, you missed your own point. The U.S. already has nuclear weapons, not just nuclear power plants.

Irregardless, the U.S. is not ruled by Islamic fascists that, among other things:

Hold conventions to dispel the Holocaust
Arrest women for immodest attire
Threaten to wipe other nations off the face of the earth
Kidnap foreign officers and parade them on television with forced confessions

The U.S. is by no means perfect, but there are shades of gray here. Iran considers itself to be a great nation, and The Grand Ayatollah, the puppet President and the governing council would like nothing better than to hold a few nuclear warheads - and do you really think that men who believe in nuclear technology as a weapon of God will be forthcoming to UN inspections and the IAEA? (Hint: No)

Answer 3

The US is one of the orginal nuclear powers and is the only nation to have ever used a nuclear weapon during a time of war. This happened over 60 years ago and despite provacation and related matters the US still has not reused the weapons as a means of resolving conflict. There is still guilt here in the US over having done so. There are safeguards placed over access to these weapons, inspections, and so forth that cut down on the chances of their usage. All of these have been effective. Also the US is unlikely to allow a terriorist group to use nuclear material for an attack. This isn't true of Iran, North Korea and the like. These countries export terriorists and support terriorist activities. There is a huge difference in accountability here.

Answer 4

Back about 1982, Pakistan was developing a reactor, but pledged to the world that it was only interested in developing nuclear power, not a weapon. Now they have something like 30 nukes, and every day the radicals are making more attacks and demands on Musharreff 's government and taking over more of the country as his army retreats to urban strongholds. The USA is not giving speeches everyday vowing to wipe neighbors off the map, pledging that the day of judgement will soon be here, the return of the prohet/messiah or whatever bringing endtimes will soon be revealed to us all, etc. etc. and have underground missile factories and got caught with nuclear warhead plans by UN weapons inspectors. In the meantime some of those inspectors, like Baradli(?) is more interested in aquiring nuclear weapons for his own country, than preventing proliferation. I agree, I'd like to see less nuclear power plants in the USA, or at least those that keep having problems shut down and replaced with alternative forms if possible, like offshore marine or wind power closer to the largest demand for energy, instead of plants in less populated areas and hundreds or miles of power lines. People have to get over the fact the USA used nukes to end WW2, our Manhattan project was barely ahead of Germany and Japan in WW2, or they would have used them on us first. We could still have beaten Japan, but the cost would have been much higher on both sides as Hirohito expected every last Japanese to die for him, that is why dropping the first bomb didn't convince him. there have been many opportunities to use them since, but the USA believes peaceful trade and diplomacy is better than war. I can guarrantee you that if Iran uses nukes agianst others, it will be a suicidal attack, and you have to question if it's leaders care anymore about their citizens, than Hirohito did. Because as in any such war, it's the normal people who just want to go about their daily lives, that always suffer the consequences of warmongers.

Answer 5

Here's a list of countries with nuclear power and weapons:

US
Russia
China
France
Britain
South Africa
India
Pakistan
Israel

Here's a list of countries with nuclear weapons currently under UN sanctions:

N Korea
Iran

Are you smart enough to figure out the difference between these two lists?

Answer 6

The US has never threatened to wipe another country off the map.

With nuclear power comes responsibility. We are responsible.

I seriously don't think you can say that about Iran. Even Pakistan is responsible with their weapons.

Answer 7

Because the US is a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as part of the UN, we submit to monitoring of our plants, and we are members of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaties.

All of that demonstrates that the US is responsible and has no aggressive intentions with its nuclear power.

Answer 8

Because we have almost all the nukes! And refuse to comply with the same treaty we are claiming Iran is violating!

Iran has a right under the NPT to build a power plant, and you can't run one without enriching uranium. The don't run on sand!

"Article IV

1. Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this Treaty.

2. All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Parties to the Treaty in a position to do so shall also co-operate in contributing alone or together with other States or international organizations to the further development of the applications of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, especially in the territories of non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the Treaty, with due consideration for the needs of the developing areas of the world."

Bush's claim they are building a bomb is probably about as accurate as all that gas and nukes in Iraq!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tQeBNjjFbQ&mode=related&search=

Answer 9

We are an esablished nuclear power that does not use nuclear weapons to promote our agenda...there is strong evidence that Iran and n. korea will.

Answer 10

Because America uses discreet events to evaluate its options.
A theocracy uses the existence of "evil" as an excuse to relegate it's future to the sands of time.