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Titolo: How Gulf states could start new nuclear race (Guardian)

Altro che centrali nucleari, fine dell'innocenza...
Lunghetto, ma vale la pena per capire le linee di forza.
Am.
How Gulf states could start new nuclear race
Simon Tisdall
Tuesday December 12, 2006
The Guardian 
A weekend decision by the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council to launch 
an innocent-sounding joint nuclear energy development project is the 
clearest signal yet that Iran's nuclear programmes, whether sinister or 
not, could hasten the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction 
across the Middle East.
But the activities of acknowledged nuclear weapons states such as the 
US, Russia and Britain, and deepening frustrations among key 
non-nuclear, non-aligned players such as Indonesia and Argentina, are 
also stoking worries that the UN's cornerstone non-proliferation treaty 
(NPT) is not long for this life.
The Gulf countries - Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the 
UAE - made clear that, like Iran, they want nuclear know-how for solely 
"peace purposes". And it is not the first time the idea of an Arab bomb 
has come up. Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Saudi Arabia have already 
declared an intention to develop civilian nuclear energy.
The council's statement comes amid rising tension between Shia Iran and 
the Sunni-led Gulf states over political turmoil in Lebanon and anarchy 
in Iraq. But its timing will be seen as an unsubtle warning to the Bush 
administration to ignore the Iraq Study Group's advice on softening US 
policy towards Iran.
The Gulf's message may also be directed at Russia, which is still 
wrangling with Britain and France over the terms of a UN sanctions 
resolution on Iran. Diplomats say the resolution may finally pass this 
week, after first being mooted in July. But Moscow has weakened it. Even 
as a first step, it hardly amounts to the ringing, united 
anti-proliferation stand that the US and EU sought.
The resolution's main thrust will be to ban the sale or transfer to 
Tehran of nuclear and missile-related technology. Straight-faced Iranian 
diplomats say that is no problem since Iran is not building nuclear 
weapons and already has plenty of missiles. All the same, it is poised 
to retaliate. "If there are UN sanctions, there will be trade sanctions 
on Britain, France and Germany. Our response will be swift and 
proportionate," an Iranian official said.
Russia's own NPT adherence is also in serious question. Defence minister 
Sergei Ivanov, a possible successor to Vladimir Putin, last week proudly 
announced the commissioning of a new, mobile version of the Topol-M 
nuclear-tipped missile. Capable of vaporising targets 10,000km away, the 
Topol-M had previously been confined to fixed ground silos. It was 
specifically designed to penetrate new US "Star Wars" missile defences, 
Mr Ivanov said. It complements another new Russian "deterrent" - the 
sea-based Bulava missile.
But the US and Britain are hardly in a position to wax sanctimonious 
over Moscow's behaviour. President Bush's plan to provide India with 
nuclear fuel, reactors and technology was approved by Congress at the 
weekend. Under the new law, India's secret, destabilising 1990s 
development of nuclear weapons and its ongoing refusal to sign the NPT 
will be officially forgiven in return for a strategic (meaning 
anti-Chinese) partnership with Washington - and preferential trade 
opportunities for US businesses.
Far from gradually disarming as required by the NPT, the US is also 
developing new "low yield" nuclear weaponry that could, in theory, be 
more readily used on battlefields. Thanks to these and other factors, 
like Britain's Trident replacement plan and bomb-happy North Korea's so 
far unchecked defiance of international law and opinion, fears grow that 
countries such as Brazil and South Africa that voluntarily eschewed 
nuclear arms may feel obliged to reconsider.
American unilateralism makes for odd bedfellows. According to Jean du 
Preez of California's Monterey Institute, writing in Arms Control Today 
magazine, Washington recently joined North Korea at the UN general 
assembly "in voting against a rather innocuous resolution put forward by 
Japan on a 'renewed determination towards the total elimination of 
nuclear weapons'". It also blocked a range of other disarmament 
measures. Such double standards risked rendering the NPT irrelevant, he 
suggested. "The nuclear non-proliferation regime is in deep trouble."

 Lunghetto, ma vale la pena per capire le linee di forza.
Bah! Non mi pare di vederci nulla di nuovo (oppure
evidenzia quali siano le novità).
Piuttosto, attaccandomi a quel "fine dell'innocenza",
una notizia anch'essa risaputa ma che da ora in poi
la rende ufficiale è questa:
http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?page=detail_info&article=395580&lng=4
Olmert ammette ufficilmente che Israele ha le
atomiche.
Ciao!
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Avvertenza:
Dal 1 Gennaio 2007, il nome *CptKirk* verrà sostituito
da *Surak 2.0*.
L'indirizzo di posta, per il momento, resterà lo stesso

 evidenzia quali siano le novità)
Perlas ad porcos.
A meno che il problema siano le lezioni private di inglese.
25 euros/ora?
Am.
PS a volte il quadro di insieme *e'* la notizia.

 PS a volte il quadro di insieme *e'* la notizia.
Boh! C'ho messo un po' a tradurlo tutto (se
non è un sito mi tocca  spezzettarlo) ma non c'ho visto
nulla di nuovo.
C'è una corsa al nucleare e non c'è nessun innocente
neanchè tra i moralizzatori.
Bella scoperta
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 Bella scoperta
Come la leggo io:
- Qualche giorno fa qualcuno posta un trafiletto secondo cui l'AS ha 
deciso di costruire una centrale nucleare. Dato interessante visto che 
l'AS e' rivale dell'Iran nell'area.
- Pochi giorni dopo, cioe' oggi, esce fuori che tutto il Golfo potrebbe 
diventare nucleare, nel senso di bombe.
- inoltre viene rivelato che anche le forniture nucleari americane 
all'India potrebbero essere dual use, in funzione anticinese.
Be', non mi sembra che siano esattamente bruscolini o cose vecchie, ma 
se Surak ormai ha Debka, il SISMI e altre fonti in vena posso capire.
Un conto e' dire che il trattaato di non proliferazione sta crollando, e 
cun conto e' scoprire come, anche perche' fino adesso mantenerlo 
sembrava l'unico punto d'accordo reale tra USA e Russia.
Am.

 mantenerlo sembrava l'unico punto d'accordo reale tra USA e Russia.
Aggiungici pure Cina
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 Può crollare qualcosa mai messo in piedi?
YAWN... Direi che hai di nuovo problemi con il mainstream.
Am.