Australian govt undermining nonproliferation: uranium sales to Russia
“The spread of weapons grade material is the dark underbelly of the
uranium mining industry,”
Fernando de Freitas, 24 April 2010, The Federal Government’s decision to allow uranium exports to Russia will harm Australia’s credentials as a leading international voice against the spread of nuclear weapons, according to the Australian Greens.
Russia maintains the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, is a
key part of the Iranian nuclear programme and has not been visited by
IAEA inspectors since 2001.
“The spread of weapons grade material is the dark underbelly of the
uranium mining industry,” said Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, spokesperson
on nuclear issues.
“The very real security and nonproliferation concerns of uranium deals
with Russia were spelled out forensically by the Joint Standing
Committee on Treaties (JSCOT) in 2008. The Government has blindly
dismissed these warnings.
“Once again the mining industry has been allowed to cut across
Australia’s broader foreign policy objectives and security interests.
“This is the worst possible decision at a time when nations are working
to rid the world of nuclear weapons,” Senator Ludlam said.
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It is a misconception to believe that Russians – who eagerly contributed to near total nuclearisation of Europe, North America and the Orient – would do anything to stop continued uranium mining and nuclear proliferation. All one need do is look at the continued pro-Soviet influence over so many nations, to see that pro-nuclear pro-Soviet policies continue up to this very day, to include within the EuroSoviet society over North America and subordinate Britain. And Soviet nuclear policy may be dangerously contagious, as the autocratic government over Iran models itself more and more, as a virtual Soviet Republic of Iran, deriving much of its totalitarian policy from nearby Soviet neighbours, to include its long time neighbour, the Khazar civilisation of Western Asia, at which it still directs much supposed enmity in spite of extreme similarity.
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