Why Does Hans Blix Hate America?

First the guy refuses to show us the nuclear weapons program in Iraq. Now he's headed up a commission making recommendations about worldwide nuclear weapons. Based on a "study." He seems to be suggesting, in the introduction, that maybe we should consider keeping our word, now and then. Damn you, Blix!

The United States has not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and in 2001 it withdrew from the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty.

"While the reaction of most states to the treaty violations was to strengthen and develop the existing treaties and institutions," Blix said, "the U.S., the sole superpower, has looked more to its own military power for remedies." One result, he said, was that "the nuclear- weapons states no longer seem to take their commitment to nuclear disarmament seriously."

The commission said that there were 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world, with 12,000 of them deployed - numbers it labeled "extraordinarily and alarmingly high." Blix said he feared the number would rise because of efforts to develop more sophisticated weapons and place them in space. He said he also feared that an American- proposed missile shield would set off countermeasures by Russia and China.

The panel said that nuclear weapons should ultimately be banned the way biological and chemical weapons were. "Weapons of mass destruction cannot be uninvented," the report said. "But they can be outlawed, as biological and chemical weapons already have been."