Blix fears new nuclear arms race

[struggle4progress]

Friday, February 25, 2005
Updated at 11:18 AM EST
Associated Press

Stockholm — Global nuclear disarmament is moving backward, and U.S. plans to build new nuclear weapons could trigger another arms race, former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix warned Friday. <snip>


“We're moving backward rather than forward,” he said. “After the Iraq war, it seems that the family counsellors have advised their friends to reassume their cohabitation” with nuclear weapons.

“What's worrisome is whether the U.S.A. has moved away from the stance they had about global disarmament,” said Mr. Blix, who now heads the Swedish-based Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission.

If the United States were to move forward with plans for new bunker-busting nuclear weapons, he said, “there is a risk for rearmament instead of a continued global co-operation” for disarmament. <snip>

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[MichiganVote]

1. They didn't listen to Blix before and the powers that be won't listen now