Iran — Arms Control Will Not Deter It from Developing Nuclear Weapons
Historically, arms-control treaties have not prevented the development of nuclear weapons. America’s superpower status has.
Advocates of the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran argue that, despite the duplicity of the Iranian regime, the deal will work because arms control worked to contain the nuclear threat from the “evil empire” that was the Soviet Union. In fact, the USSR massively violated most of the arms-control agreements it concluded with the United States. Russia today is violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons and was therefore widely regarded as the most successful arms-control agreement in history — until recent cheating by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
To help set straight the dismal record of arms control, journalists should submit a Freedom of Information Act request to declassify “A Quarter Century of Soviet Compliance Practices under Arms Control Commitments: 1958–1983,” the report of President Reagan’s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. Historically, no nuclear-arms-control agreement, such as the Obama administration’s deal with Iran, has ever succeeded in persuading or compelling any state to abandon nuclear weapons or a nuclear-weapons program. Sanctions and military force have worked to stop nuclear proliferation, while arms control has spectacularly failed to stop nuclear proliferation. For example:
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