How come only THE USA AND ITS ALLIES can have nuclear power?

Question

N korea and Iran are bad countries according to the USA, but if you try to stop them...how come you dont try to stop Israel too? you should treat all equally. I would have said yeah help isreal they are alone in the middle east, YEAR AGO! when i was like five! but now! i look at the pictures of middle eastern children and all the damage done by the israelis and i'm starting to see how they get treated different.

sorry when i said year ago, i meant yearS ago!

BY THE WAY MY QUESTION IS ==>> HOW COME WE FEEL WE CAN CONTROL WHO CAN HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, REGARDLES OF WHAT THEIR USE IS?

Answer 1

Russia, Pakistan, India, China have nuclear weapons and are NOT ally to USA, not even friend of USA.
So the answer is, USA do not want to have more enemies with nuclear weapons.
On the other hand, China and Russia supports Iran having nukes and they provide Uranium which turns into Plutonium used in nukes in Nuclear reactors.
Building nuclear weapon is far more costly than buying one from the black market (mostly from old Soviet states)
N.Korea or Iran would not use nukes, they want to have it to threat the USA. To defend themselves.
Look, USA took the Iraq, but could not take the Iran. They planned to invade but did not dare because Iran announced that they have nuke! USA stepped back. I believe Iran covertly supports Islamist terrorists. But USA thinks twice to invade Iran... So it actually works.

To PaddyRanger:
Iraq was a dictatorship. Iran is a democratic state, they have elections to select president, like the USA. But Islamic election is like Communists election...
On the other hand I believe USA also became light-dictatorship! Elected president should not have all the rights to mess with country's resources, young men and tax payers money. Bush acts as a dictator now. He continues to a costly and deadly war which is not approved by many Americans and many senators and representatives. Is this an example of democracy?

Answer 2

Iran signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, so developing nuclear weapons is contrary to international law when it comes to them (since they signed as a non-nuclear country).

The US signed the treaty as a "nuclear country" -- which means they already had nukes and were promising not to allow proliferation of nuclear technology for weapons. So, the US is abiding by its treaty obligations when it takes steps to prevent other countries from developing nuclear weapons.

North Korea signed and ratified the treaty -- then violated it -- and has since withdrawn from the treaty. However, the US is certainly within its rights to say that North Korea shouldn't have nukes and to not sell North Korea techology to develop them. It is also within the US's rights to encourage other countries to not let N. Korea have nukes.

Israel has never signed or ratified the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and is not violating international law if it has them.

The question might be reversed to you -- why do you want N.Korea and Iran to have nukes? Our of some sense of "fairness?" The stakes are too high to worry about fairness here. N.Korea and Iran are unstable nations run by megalomaniacal dictators that openly talk of wiping nations off the face of the Earth. Why do you want them to have the capacity to carry out their threats?

Answer 3

Because if you had half a brain you would see that the US and its allies do not want to use them, they would rather get rid of them if they could, see the amount of treaties and deals done to drastically reduce them, BUT whilst the US and Russia and US Allies want to reduce and get rid of them, other countries want them, and ask yourself why does North Korea and Iran BOTH Dictatorships want them, there is a difference between a democratic country and a dictatorship country and if you have not figured that one out its a waste of time taliking to people like you.

Answer 4

Because since the end of WWII, the US foreign policy has been a complete flop. Instead of moving towards peace, we move towards war. Instead of disarming, ... Well look what Bush and Putin are up to. As far as Israel, they can take care of themselves but if we must, we must help them since they only sit on 1/8 of 1% of all Arab land, and thus are pretty much the underdogs. (You still don't understand that there are rockets being tossed into Israel every day)

Answer 5

It's GE's fault and the US Navy sold all of our secrets to the israelis who turned right around and sold them to the Chinese!

Answer 6

WE'RE BULLIES, PURE AND SIMPLE. We don't want anybody to be stronger or better than us. So, in the typical cowardly tact that bullies always adopt, we puff out our chests and intimidate everyone into behaving the way WE want them to behave. When they don't, we think we have the right to 'punish' them with 'war'. This country's foreign policy should focus on PEACE and harmony instead of war and intimidation. -RKO- 06/11/07

Answer 7

Self entitlement, discrimination, and they are the colonizers so they feel their interests are "THE INTERESTS", that are best and most "Civilized"..... AKA: They are bullies and do not want others to gain the opportunity to over power and over throw them. Although they themselves can pretty much do as they please.........but the tides always change.....

Answer 8

Because the US and its allies are bullies who like to interfere in the affairs of weaker countries and steal oil