Nuclear Hypocrisy and Its Chain Reaction

Let’s start off with an indisputable fact. No sane person or responsible country wants to see a nuclear proliferation free for all. Nuclear weapons could destroy all life as we know it. So the stakes are high. The Great Powers are the self-appointed guardians of nuclear non-proliferation. A lauded goal but they have been hypocritical and duplicitous in its implementation.

Nuclear weapon breakout capacity (the time required to build enough highly enriched uranium for one or two warheads) has been limited to regimes that are deemed responsible. Objectionable regimes seeking breakout…