In the last few decades, the international community has faced a new threat. The former IAEA Director General, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei said enrichment uranium, reprocessing and other nuclear fuel-making activities" creates many new challenges, both for the international community and for [the IAEA], because verifying enrichment facilities or reprocessing facilities is quite difficult, and the so-called conversion time is very short. So we are dealing with what I call virtual nuclear-weapon states". In fact, because of the serious weaknesses of international safeguards for verifying the nuclear activities of member countries, non-nuclear-weapon states under the disguise of a peaceful nuclear activities can produce atomic bombs. (Like North Korea).
The question is whether the international community should prohibit some nuclear activities (uranium enrichment, reprocessing and nuclear fuel production) due to serious weaknesses in international safeguards to monitor these activities?
We already live in a very vulnerable world, if our safeguard systems are weak international community should definitely prohibit nuclear activities.
(1).In general, there is a matter of prohibition versus the not-caring, and deterring others about every unsafe instruments and events. This is the sense of hostility among human kind which could have a root in the belief of "money, power, control", as well as their competitiveness, and pride. Moreover, the outcome of these specific decisions could come in different packages and emphasis (invisible & twisted, versus loud & clear), among different nations. (2). Currently, every authority is well aware of the GLOBAL hazards of one uncontrolled types of the nuclear activities. Even, the both of the rival-sides know that both of them will be harmed anyways. So, the nuclear game has becoming an instrument of deter, to create scarcity, to get whatever & whenever, geo-politically & geo-economically, from weaker.
nuclear activities will continue, since big powers, US, Russia, China have supported their allies or ignored such activities for political and monitor gains or threat to other countries
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