Iran and Nuclear Proliferation
On February 11th, 2010, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared during a speech on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, that Iran has produced its first package of highly enriched Uranium. This was declared two days after beginning the process earlier that week. President Ahmadinejad said during his speech that Iran has succeeded in enriching uranium to twenty percent and has the ability to achieve a purity of more than eighty percent. (Flintoff) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had advised the United States and other United Nations (UN) Security Council nations on the possibility of an advanced nuclear development program in Iran. Iran has been consistently resistant to working with IAEA inspectors on exposing its nuclear program. UN countries, such as the United States have seen these actions as a threat to national interests in the Middle East region. (Garcia-Navarro) Because of Iran’s hesitation and negligence in cooperating with UN requirements, the United States and UN Security Council nations should move forward with stricter political and economic sanctions against Iran, most specifically it’s main dominant party in the country, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. A direct military action against Iran by the United States would cause major unrest with aligned Islamic nations and pose a great threat Israel and other United States interests. To ensure proper enforcement of these sanctions the United States need to seek satisfactory involvement from other remaining UN Security Council nations such as Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom. To properly enforce these sanctions, the United States and other negotiating nations must understand Iran and its dominant r...
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Since its origin in 1948, North Korea has been isolated and heavily armed, with hostile relations with South Korea and Western countries. It has developed a capability to produce short- and medium-range missiles, chemical weapons, and possibly biological and nuclear weapons. In December 2002, Pyongyang lifted the freeze on its plutonium-based nuclear weapons program and expelled IAEA inspectors who had been monitoring the freeze under the Agreed Framework of October 1994. As the Bush administration was arguing its case at the United Nations for disarming Iraq, the world has been hit with alarming news of a more menacing threat: North Korea has an advanced nuclear weapons program that, U.S. officials believe, has already produced one or two nuclear bombs. As the most recent standoff with North Korea over nuclear missile-testing approaches the decompression point, the United States needs to own up to a central truth: The region of Northeast Asia will never be fully secure until the communist dictatorship of North Korea passes from the scene. After threatening to test a new, long-range missile, Pyongyang says it is willing to negotiate with "the hostile nations" opposing it. But whether the North will actually forgo its test launch is anyone's guess. North Korea first became embroiled with nuclear politics during the Korean War. Although nuclear weapons were never used in Korea, American political leaders and military commanders threatened to use nuclear weapons to end the Korean War on terms favorable to the United States. In 1958, the United States deployed nuclear weapons to South Korea for the first time, and the weapons remained there until President George Bush ordered their withdrawal in 1991. North Korean government stateme...
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... part of the “axis of evil” in his State of the Union Address, this upset many Iranians. In 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president in place of Khatami. Ahmadinejad brought back conservative policies. Under his presidency dress codes and persecution of minorities became stricter, many homosexuals were also hanged. Ahmadinejad refused to stop uranium enrichment as demanded by the United Nations. He was re-elected in 2009 in a suspiciously large victory. Opponents claimed obvious fraud and protestors took to the streets, but the government didn’t back down and killed at least 20 demonstrators. The Obama administration currently has a policy of engagement with Iran, but no results can be seen so far.
It is a well-known fact that the dropping of the two atomic bombs near the end of World War II in 1945 ushered in the dawn of the Atomic Age. For the first time in human history, the world was introduced to the awesome power of nuclear weapons. Since that time, there have been several different nuclear threats to the world, and one of those threats can be found along the Pacific Rim, in the country of North Korea. Like the dropping of the atomic bombs, it is also known that the North Korean government has admitted to possessing nuclear weapons, and in doing so, it stands as a silent, potential nuclear danger to the rest of the world.