Re: [Pen-l] North Korea's Real Crime

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed. There can't really be anything wrong with violating the
non-proliferation treaty. After all, Israel has gotten away with it
for a long time. Decades?

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:00 AM, michael perelman
<michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't like nuclear weapons, but for all the outrage regarding North
> Korea's nuclear explosion, nobody seems to have noticed that this week the
> U.S. celebrated the opening of the $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility.
> The New York Times described project without mentioning its military
> purpose, except quoting the project director who "compared the project to
> feats like going to the Moon, building the atom bomb and inventing the
> airplane."
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/science/26fusi.html?_r=1&ref=science
>
> The NIF is supposed to simulate weapons tests without having to do anything
> as crude as exploding a bomb underground. Presumably North Korea should be
> condemned for being too poor to produce this cathedral of death near
> Berkeley, California.
>
> p.s. I know that the authorities also wish NIF to create fusion power, but I
> doubt that it would have funding without its military "benefits."
>
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