Who Is the Rogue?
The debate surrounding the Bush administration’s push for new nuclear bunker-busters highlights, however, just how unsettling it is for the rest of the world when the lone superpower alters a long-standing, carefully calibrated strategic equation of deterrence and nuclear nonproliferation and moves toward one of coercion and potential nuclear pre-emption. Many countries see the Bush approach as a violation of the spirit of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, particularly Article 6: “Each of the parties to the treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.” Even the Republican-controlled Congress is not entirely comfortable with the shift in nuclear doctrine. Last year, Congress zeroed out the Bush administration’s request of $27.6 million to research the nuclear ea
