International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War are blogging from inside the Non-Proliferation Review Conference (link here). I don’t expect they’ll be exposing a Gaiacidal plot from the fifth dimension. But they will be trying to deal with a gaiacidal plot originating from us humans in the good old three dimensions plus time. So I’m glad that there are some real Doctors in the UN house.
Commenting on the President of Iran’s speech, they say:
Ahmadinejad […] stated plainly that any country that develops and stockpiles nuclear weapons only exposes itself to their hazards; that the “sole purpose of nuclear weapons is to annihilate all human beings and destroy the environment,” and that possession of nuclear weapons is “disgusting and shameful.” He spoke harshly and at length about the US, charging that it “has never respected any of its commitments.”
President Ahmadinejad will have some explaining to do, somewhere down the line, if Iran eventually commits the “disgusting and shameful” act of acquiring its own nuclear arsenal. In the meantime, his critique of the double standard that has placed enormous strain on the non-proliferation regime did not sound very different from what NGOs and many other NPT member states have been saying for many years.
Ahmadinejad’s entire speech (along with all the government statements from today and from each day of the Review Conference) is on the Reaching Critical Will website.
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