@@ U.S. wants definition of NPT 'noncompliance' changed!!! @@
Arash
April 18, 2005
Bonkers at the UN
Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
Bonkers Bolton is the principal Bush-Cheney weenie now loudly claiming that Iran has a
secret nuclear weapons program that the IAEA hasn't been able to find, despite two years
of intrusive on-the-ground, go-anywhere see-anything inspections.
Furthermore, Bolton is demanding that the IAEA Board refer his wholly unsubstantiated
charge to the Security Council for appropriate action.
But the Board is only obligated to refer such a charge in the event IAEA inspectors
discover Iran to be in IAEA Statutory noncompliance – that is, using its safeguarded
materials, equipment or facilities "in furtherance of any military purpose."
So what's the first thing our new UN ambassador will do? Why, demand at the NPT Review
Conference next month that the definition of NPT noncompliance be broadened so that, for
example, an oil-rich country like Iran would be in NPT noncompliance if it insisted on
enriching uranium.
Dr. Prather's radio interviews
April 9, 2005
Audio (45 minutes)
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather3.mp3
February 5, 2005
Audio (45 minutes)
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather2.mp3
December 4, 2004
Audio (45 minutes)
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather.mp3
February 16, 2005
Audio part 1 (20 minutes)
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-02-16-Charles-04.mp3
Audio part 2 (20 minutes)
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-02-16-Charles-05.mp3
* Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for national
security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research and
Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of
Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant
for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Okla. -- ranking member of the
Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate Energy Committee and Appropriations
Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (http://www.llnl.gov) in California and Sandia National
Laboratory (http://www.sandia.gov) in New Mexico.
http://www.antiwar.com/prather