On 03 Oct 2009, at 12:25, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> Barack Obama, the US president, has agreed to abide by a 40-year
> policy of allowing Israel to keep nuclear weapons without opening them
> to international inspection, according to a US newspaper.
Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, so
it's not really our nor the international communities call as to
whether or not inspections should be made. Note Iran is a signatory as
was North Korea although it rescinded its participation. Only
signatories have any kind of obligation to permit inspection which is
easily evaded.
> [irrelevant material redacted]
> There is no official accounting of the deal, supposedly agreed in 1969
> between Richard Nixon, then US president, and Golda Meir, the Israeli
> prime minister at the time.
If there's a whiff of potential conspiracy it must be nutters ;) There
needn't be any conspiratorial agreement. I personally imagine that the
conversion went something like this:
Nixon: Our intelligence suspects you've got Nukes!?
Meir: That's none of your concern.
Nixon: Okay, then.
Dave
--
"God was left out of the [US] Constitution but was furnished a front
seat on the coins of the country. "
-- Mark Twain
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