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The Great
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March 14, 2002
Bush Nuclear Policy Violates International
Law, Again
By Francis Boyle
Writing in the March 10, 2002 edition of the Los
Angeles Times, defense analyst William Arkin revealed the leaked
contents of the Bush Jr. administration's Nuclear Posture Review
(NPR) that it had just transmitted to Congress on January 8.
The Bush Jr. administration has ordered
the Pentagon to draw up war plans for the first-use of nuclear
weapons against seven states: the so-called "axis of evil":
Iran, Iraq, and North Korea; Libya and Syria; Russia and China,
which are nuclear armed.
This component of the Bush Jr. NPR incorporates
the Clinton administration's 1997 nuclear war-fighting plans
against so-called "rogue states" set forth in Presidential
Decision Directive 60.
These warmed-over nuclear war plans targeting
these five non-nuclear states expressly violate the so-called
"negative security assurances" given by the United
States as an express condition for the renewal and indefinite
extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by all
of its non-nuclear weapons states parties in 1995. Yet this new
NPR has delivered yet another serious blow to the integrity of
the entire NPT Regime.
Equally reprehensible from a legal perspective
is the NPR's call for the Pentagon to draft nuclear war-fighting
plans for first nuclear strikes:
- against alleged nuclear/chemical/biological
"materials" or "facilities";
- "against targets able to withstand
non-nuclear attack";
- and "in the event of surprising
military developments," whatever that means.
According to the NPR, the Pentagon must
also draw up nuclear war-fighting plans to intervene with nuclear
weapons in wars:
- between China and Taiwan;
- between Israel and the Arab states;
- between Israel and Iraq;
- and between North Korea and South Korea.
It is obvious upon whose side the United
States will actually plan to intervene with the first-use nuclear
weapons. Quite ominously, today the Bush Jr. administration accelerates
its plans for launching an apocalyptic military aggression against
Iraq, deliberately raising the spectre of a U.S. first-strike
nuclear attack.
The Bush Jr. administration is making
it crystal clear to all its chosen adversaries around the world
that it is fully prepared to cross the threshold of actually
using nuclear weapons that has prevailed since the U.S. criminal
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Yet more proof of the fact that the United
States government has abandoned "deterrence" for "compellance"
in order to rule the future world of the Third Millenium.
The Bush Jr. administration has obviously
become a "threat to the peace" within the meaning of
U.N. Charter article 39. It must be countermanded by the U.N.
Security Council acting under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter.
In the event of a U.S veto of such "enforcement action"
by the Security Council, then the U.N. General Assembly must
deal with the Bush Jr. administration by invoking its Uniting
for Peace Resolution of 1950.
There very well could be some itty-bitty
"rogue states" lurking out there somewhere in the Third
World. But today the United States government has become the
sole "rogue elephant" of international law and politics.
For the good of all humanity America must be restrained. Time
is of the essence!
Francis Boyle
is human rights lawyer and a professor of law at the University
of Illinois. He is the author of The
Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, recently published
by Clarity
Press. He can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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