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after intrusive go-anywhere see-anything inspections – found no evidence of nukes, so why
U.S. and the global Jewish mega-media conglomerate keeps lying & lying ...
US-EU-Russians have broken all of the promises they made to Iran repeatedly, yet Iran is
still fully cooperating with the IAEA.
Iran is playing by the rules, while others are not. Why should then Iran continue to
tolerate this US-EU-Russian double-standard and discriminatory behavior?
Nuclear weapons physicist Dr. Prather explains the Bush administration's attempts to
destroy the Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT) as part of the U.S.-Israeli plan to attack
Iran.
Dr. Prather worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at the U.S. nuclear weapons facilites:
Lawrence Livermore (http://www.llnl.gov/llnl/about) and the Sandia
(http://www.sandia.gov/about/index.html).
Giant Jewish-owned mainstream medias neither publish his articles nor interview him!!!
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AntiWar
April 16, 2005
Strengthening the NPT?
Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
According to Ambassador Jackie Sanders (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/27684.htm), the
United States proposes to "strengthen" the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons at the NPT Review Conference being held next month at United Nations headquarters
in New York.
If Ambassador Sanders is not intentionally misleading us, either she has never read the
Treaty or didn't understand what she read.
For example, Jackie Sanders acknowledges that the NPT "provides for NPT parties to pursue
peaceful nuclear programs." But then she says "The plain language of Article IV creates no
'right' to any particular nuclear activities or facilities, nor does it require the
transfer of any particular technology".
Translation? Article IV doesn't specifically give Iran the "right" to enrich uranium, nor
does it require the U.S. to assist Russia in transfering uranium-enrichment technology to
Iran.
Well, the NPT doesn't mention uranium-enrichment or Iran.
But Article IV acknowledges "the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty" –
including Iran – to acquire and use any and all nuclear technologies – including
uranium-enrichment – for peaceful purposes "without discrimination".
And Article IV goes on to say that Parties to the Treaty in a position to do so – such as
Russia and the United States – "shall" cooperate in contributing to the development of
nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, especially in non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the
Treaty – such as Iran.
Worse, Jackie Sanders claims that the NPT "mandates that their nuclear activities must
comply with the Treaty's nonproliferation obligations".
Whatever Jackie Sanders thinks those obligations might be, the Treaty doesn't even mention
them, much less "mandate" compliance with them.
What the NPT actually mandates is that each non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty
conclude a "safeguards" agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Treaty
makes clear that the "exclusive purpose" of compliance with a safeguards agreement is so
all NPT-signatories can be assured that nuclear energy is not being diverted by some other
NPT-signatory from peaceful uses to the production of nuclear weapons.
It is the IAEA Statute, itself, that requires IAEA inspectors to report noncompliance –
defined to be safeguarded materials, equipment or facilities being used "in furtherance of
any military purpose" – to the IAEA Director General, who is required to forward that
report to the IAEA Board of Directors, who are, in turn, required to report that misuse to
all IAEA Members, to the UN Security Council and to the UN General Assembly, itself.
Jackie Sanders wants you to believe that the failure to completely and fully "comply" in a
timely manner with an IAEA Safeguards Agreement constitutes "non-compliance", as defined
by the IAEA Statute.
It doesn't. Not by a long shot.
If an NPT-signatory moves a small amount of "safeguarded" material from Building A to
Building B and doesn't report that to the IAEA in a timely manner, unless that moving was
done in furtherance of a military purpose, that "failure" to fully "comply" doesn't get
reported to the UN Security Council as statutory "non-compliance".
Hence, an NPT "violation" is effectively a determination by the IAEA that safeguarded
materials, equipment or facilities in a NPT-signatory state have been used in furtherance
of a military purpose.
Note that there are materials, equipment and facilities subject to IAEA Safeguards in
Pakistan and India, neither of which are NPT-signatories.
In other words, the NPT has made use of an already existing system for detecting and
reporting illicit nuke programs to the Security Council.
That means that – under the IAEA statute – it is the IAEA Director General who effectively
decides what constitutes an NPT "violation" and what doesn't.
Since 1997 Mohamed ElBaradei has been making those decisions.
That's probably one reason the neo-crazies are crazy.
In the months preceding Bush's invasion of Iraq, Bush-Cheney-Bolton, the neocrazies and
their media sycophants insisted that Iraq was "violating" the NPT.
ElBaradei and his inspectors spent months on the ground in Iraq – conducting intrusive
go-anywhere see-anything inspections – found no evidence that Iraq was using nuclear
energy in furtherance of any military purpose and reported that to the UN Security
Council.
Since Bush was hell-bent on "regime change" in Iraq, he invaded, anyway.
For almost two years now, Bush-Bolton and the neo-crazies have been insisting that Iran is
"violating" the NPT.
ElBaradei and his inspectors have spent almost two years on the ground in Iran –
conducting intrusive go-anywhere see-anything inspections – have found no evidence that
Iran is using nuclear energy in furtherance of any military purpose and has reported that
to the IAEA Board.
Hence, the frantic ongoing effort by Bolton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton)
and the neo-crazies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism_%28United_States%29) to
get rid of ElBaradei.
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
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 729 UNTS 161
entered into force March 5, 1970
Article IV
1. Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all
the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for
peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this
Treaty.
2. All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to
participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and
technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Parties to the Treaty
in a position to do so shall also co-operate in contributing alone or together with other
States or international organizations to the further development of the applications of
nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, especially in the territories of non-nuclear-weapon
States Party to the Treaty, with due consideration for the needs of the developing areas
of the world. http://www.nuclearfiles.org/redocuments/1968/680701-npt.html
* 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