Armed Interventions Essay

The Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction  
Global Socioeconomics
June 20, 2011



The Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction  
    While National Security is trying to control the making of weapons of mass destruction, the production of weapons of mass destruction is still inevitable because noncompliant individuals are secretly manufacturing WMD in some states and allied terrorists are buying fissile materials from suspected places like China.
    Weapons of mass destruction will always be around because there are reports that WMD are still being secretly made in many, if not all countries (Blanche, 2008). Those countries or states most aggressively working to increase WMD are located in unstable areas of the world like the Middle East, South Asia, and the Korean Peninsula. The biggest hazard created by these states is to their neighbors and to local area power. Proliferation creates threats to all countries. It especially creates problems for the United States. The dividing of the Soviet Union presented instant threats to the universal non-proliferation governments. Dr. Peter Clausen’s thesis is “that America has opposed the spread of nuclear weapons, not as a moral or humanitarian imperative but out of hard-headed calculations of interest,” (Clausen, 1993). While the US and other countries want to halt the swell of nuclear proliferation, it will never become a reality and effective unless all the nations who have nuclear capabilities give up their programs themselves for a greater world order and peace without the threats of WMD.
      History and Stance on Nuclear Proliferation "The proliferation of nuclear weapons poses the greatest threat to our national security," stated President Bush in his National Security Strategy of 2006. To deal with this continuing threat, the United States over the past half-century has helped build an international "Non- proliferation regime." The regime consists of international agreements and...