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Israel has never been a signatory to the NPT (unlike North Korea and Iran). As far as I understand they are under no obligations not to develop nuclear weapons
by tome 9y ago
Israel has never been a signatory to the NPT (unlike North Korea and Iran). As far as I understand they are under no obligations not to develop nuclear weapons technology and they do not have the right to help with civilian nuclear
infrastructure programmes that signatories have.
- jackpirate 9y agoIt's not clear to me why it's important that Israel never joined the NPT regime. For example: North Korea was never found in violation of the NPT regime. The NPT has a specific procedure for countries to withdraw from the treaty, and North Korea followed the procedure correctly. Note that I'm not saying this withdrawl was good, only that they never violated the NPT in the same way that Israel never violated the NPT.
- cbzbc 9y agoYeah, though this dates back to a time when not joining the NPT was seen as controversial (there was a diplomatic fuss at the time, and a lower level fuss some decades later when India started developing weapons while remaining out of the NPT). At the time the US insisted on carrying out inspections of the Negev facility to ensure that weapons were not being developed. In the event they eventually stopped as they felt that their inspections were not particularly effective.
- tome 9y ago> this dates back to a time when not joining the NPT was seen as controversial I hope it's seen as no less controversial today!
- cbzbc 9y agoIt should be, however the events surrounding Israel, India and Pakistan successively going nuclear-armed has weakened the force of the rhetoric somewhat.
- Feniks 9y agoIsrael got its nukes with help from US, English and French scientists. Do not ever underestimate the level of guilt people have about the Holocaust. Nobody was ever prosecuted for leaking nuclear secrets to Israel.