Antinuclear

Australia’s nuclear hypocrisy

Unholy Trinity

ON LINE opinion by Bill Williams 28 July 09
“……………………………..the moral and political quagmire created by our ongoing export of the raw ingredient for nuclear weapons fuel, uranium. The not-so-subtle identification of China as our most likely aggressor in the White Paper’s purview ought to raise questions about the role our uranium will play in that nation’s anticipated rearmament…..

………..The capacity to produce nuclear power intrinsically involves the capacity to produce fissile material usable for nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be more readily achieved and sustained in a world in which nuclear power generation is phased out. Bomb-making ingredients will be harder to acquire and more conspicuous to seek. This will substantially deter proliferation, while facilitating timely detection and intervention, focusing scarce intelligence resources on needles, not haystacks.

With the weapons’ retirement age fast-approaching, Australia can contribute to real progress in abolishing these apocalyptic anachronisms, by putting some real spirit into driving the NWC agenda, by politely withdrawing from the US nuclear umbrella and by reducing the flow of raw material into the nuclear fuel chain.

Unholy trinity – On Line Opinion – 28/7/2009

July 28, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, uranium, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive, uranium