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...When outlaws get the bomb" [Oct. 23], on the aftermath of North Korea's nuclear-weapons test, overlooked the significance of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the only binding, multilateral commitment to the goal of disarmament by nuclear-weapons states. Signatories are obligated to negotiate and achieve the elimination of nuclear arms. To have any hope of stopping proliferation and creating security, the world's powers have to work toward disarmament. Fredrik S. Heffermehl Oslo Like all nuclear-weapons programs, North Korea's should be a concern for everyone. The notion of who is an outlaw and who occupies...
...first state to address the issue. Florida approved a ballot initiative in 2002-despite jokes about the constitutional "Hamendment"-which forbids the confinement of pregnant pigs. And New Jersey, after passing the nation's first law requiring humane standards for all farm animals, is battling a lawsuit seeking to outlaw sow crates as well as the confinement of veal calves and the force-molting of hens through two-week starvation-a practice which increases egg production. Meanwhile, more than 100 college cafeterias nationwide, under pressure from students, have switched to so-called "cage-free" eggs from chickens that are allowed...
Like all nuclear-weapons programs, North Korea's should be a concern for everyone. The notion of who is an outlaw and who occupies the moral high ground on enforcing nuclear nonproliferation isn't as clear to me as your article makes out. I suspect that the U.S.'s current work on tactical nuclear weapons and our unwillingness to reduce our inventory of warheads are in violation of the NPT--making the U.S. an outlaw. If we're including violent tendencies in an analysis of risk, the U.S. is the only nuclear power to have used those weapons on human...
...going to be the real news.†“‘Axis of evil’ was a phrase, a vivid phrase, to describe a challenge or threat of the new world,†Gerson said. “We were using examples of outlaw regimes that would present a problem, and of course that turned out to be pretty predictive of the foreign policy challenges that have taken place in the last few years.†Gerson expressed content with his time at the White House, saying, “I don?...
...suspicious activity. Phone carriers would be fined if they don't comply, and they insist they already have every motivation to continuously update their methods to keep data safe. As an alternative, they support other stalled bills that have emerged from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, which outlaw pretexting, but nothing more. "It seems like they're penalizing the wrong parties here," said Jeffrey Nelson, spokesman for Verizon Wireless. "The problem is the pretexters. Requiring the phone companies to report what they're doing makes the assumption that companies don't have every reason to go after these people...