{"id":132,"date":"2006-10-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2006\/10\/jim-wallis-nuclear-hypocrisy.html"},"modified":"2006-10-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T12:00:00","slug":"jim-wallis-nuclear-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/10\/jim-wallis-nuclear-hypocrisy.html","title":{"rendered":"Jim Wallis: Nuclear Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;margin-right: 20px\" alt=\"Jim Wallis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/sojomail\/wallis.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>The United States is continuing its efforts to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapons potential, and to punish North Korea for developing and testing weapons. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is currently in Asia, pressing the South Korean and Chinese governments to support sanctions against North Korea. President Ahmadinejad of Iran, meanwhile, insists that Iran maintains the right to nuclear technology, and refuses to accept U.N. Security Council actions. There is a growing crisis in the proliferation of nuclear weapons \u2013 today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2006\/1020\/p07s02-wogi.html\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a> quotes Mohammed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency: &#8220;Another 20 to 30 states&#8221; could one day &#8220;have the capacity to develop nuclear weapons in a very short span of time.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 20px\" alt=\"mushroom cloud\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/blog\/061020_nuclear.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Also in the news this morning is an announcement by the U.S. government that it is initiating a \u201cComplex 2030\u201d program to develop and deploy 2,200 new nuclear weapons. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananuclear.org\/\">Alliance for Nuclear Accountability<\/a> calls it \u201ca bizarrely inappropriate Dr. Strangelove-esque plan to revitalize the United States\u2019 nuclear weapons production capability in order to manufacture the new Reliable Replacement Warhead, which will potentially drive a new nuclear weapons arms race.\u201d The plan includes repairing and replacing production facilities in several states. <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t believe any country should possess nuclear weapons. But the attempt to restrict the development of nuclear weapons by other countries, while continuing to upgrade and modernize our own, is simply hypocrisy. The foundation of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty was an agreement by the nuclear powers to reduce and eventually eliminate their nuclear stockpiles in return for other countries agreeing not to acquire them. None of the nuclear powers has upheld their side of the deal. If the U.S. and other nuclear weapons states are serious about preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, they must take the necessary steps toward eliminating their own nuclear arsenals. Hypocrisy doesn\u2019t make good foreign policy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is continuing its efforts to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapons potential, and to punish North Korea for developing and testing weapons. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is currently in Asia, pressing the South Korean and Chinese governments to support sanctions against North Korea. 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