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End of the NPT?

The Seventh, and possibly the last Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty will end on Friday in total failure. Over a third of the Conference was pissed off by the US pretending that the 6th Review Conference never happened, or if it did, none of its committments on the signatories, in particular the US, are worth the paper they may, or may not have been written on. The US had a higher calling -- three-card Monte played with cards marked "Iran", "Iraq" and "North Korea", and at home, getting John "Bircher" Bolton confirmed as the US Ambassador to the UN.

It really is possible that the NPT will be abandoned, and the responsibility for that lies in the major nuclear weapons states that simply aren't keeping the core bargin -- disarm and no one else will arm.

So, I'm investing in carbon fiber centrifuge arm technology. I may start doing beryllium buys too. Strictly as a hobbiest, of course.

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