(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
It should come as no surprise to any of us that US President George W. Bush has asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for nuclear weapons attacks on "hostile" states. We have long had more than one suspicion that it is the wrong man to hold the US presidency.
That such plans are designed is nevertheless nothing to blow off. The plans have been made so that they can be used in an imaginary situation. And they are laid by the political leadership of the only country in the world that has so far used the most murderous weapon the world knows – twice, even.
For large parts of the world, even for states that half a century ago saw nuclear weapons as a necessary evil they could possibly use, the August 1945 terrorist days in Hiroshima and Nagasaki became a turning point. The suffering the population suffered was so enormous that bruk of nuclear weapons was quickly considered to be of little relevance. It may seem that the United States may be the only state to take this over.
We recently learned that Richard Nixon considered using nuclear weapons in Vietnam in 1972. And that George W. Bush kept the door open for use in 2002. This makes the United States the world's most dangerous nuclear power.
It is just as bad enough – even if the United States does not use nuclear weapons – that the country tears away the basis for the non-proliferation agreement. A basic principle that non-nuclear states have undertaken not to procure nuclear weapons is that the nuclear powers undertake not to use the a-weapons against these states. This principle violates the United States now. Thus, one must expect that more countries will intensify their efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.
From Norway, there must be a clear message to Washington: As US allies, we cannot accept specific plans to use nuclear weapons. We cannot accept that the non-proliferation agreement is undermined. And we cannot accept that the United States is making the world less safe through its line of confrontation with the rest of the world. Then it must be obvious to many that the alliance across the Atlantic is not of good but of evil.
