The international nuclear community seems...
nuclear terrorism and nuclear terrorists. Only 60 UN member countries have signed the convention so far, but the Washington summit could encourage a few dozen more to join.The nuclear terrorism convention is the only - even if not the best -- medicine against the nuclear disease.
Everything that was signed at the Washington summit (the communique and the agreements to exchange information and grant access to IAEA inspectors, etc.) is nonbinding. And it is a fact that nonbinding documents on nuclear problems tend to be misinterpreted by signatories.
All nuclear powers are afflicted with "national egotism" to a varying degree. This includes Iran and North Korea, whose nuclear programs are highly alarming, Israel, India and Pakistan, which have the bomb but have not come clean on the issue, as well as such old-timers like the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France.
Russia and the United States have been working to get over their "national
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