Sentence examples for proliferators from inspiring English sources

Since credibility is crucial, the "threat tool" is now a significantly weakened aspect of the US non-proliferation portfolio in relation to Iran and future proliferators.

The most important piece of paper agreed on in Moscow was a list of 16 "principles of strategic stability" which, Mr Clinton said, deserve to be studied closely.From America's viewpoint, the biggest advance was Russia's cautious acknowledgment that wildcat proliferators do exist some, indeed, aided by sales of Russian technology.

John Bolton, Mr Bush's ex-ambassador to the UN, told CNN that the deal was "very bad...It sends exactly the wrong signal to would-be proliferators around the world: if you hold out long enough and wear down the State Department negotiators, eventually you get rewarded".Mr Bush retorted that Mr Bolton was "flat wrong".

China is set on protecting Mr Kim, and both China and Russia are pathetically reluctant to clamp even mild sanctions on a rising, energy-rich power such as Iran.If the world is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the Russians and Chinese will have to give up some serious interests in order to cause real pain to proliferators.

That is because other would-be nuclear proliferators, with Iran to the fore, are now watching to see whether it is really as easy as Mr Kim has made it look to go nuclear in defiance not only of the dire warnings of the United States and the United Nations but also of powerful neighbours such as Russia and China.In New York the UN Security Council denounced the North Korean test.

Those past sponsors or proliferators who now prove their willingness to change can expect rewards.

Mr Bush's "axis of evil" speech, in which he singled out North Korea, Iran and Iraq as proliferators and therefore threats to peace, produced wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Fresh straw on the camel's back Soft money In sickness and in health Reprints Related items Libya's weapons of mass destruction: Muammar Qaddafi comes in from the coldDec 30th 2003Mr Blair is hoping that, by offering the Libyan dictator a way back from his richly deserved pariah status, he will encourage other proliferators to follow suit.

These work by raising the technical barriers and the costs to would-be proliferators.

But the backtracking led Congress to demand the facts on Syria first.George Bush said this week that by going public, America wanted to press North Korea's (notoriously impervious) Kim Jong Il into fuller disclosure, and send a message to proliferators everywhere.

Dictators will be freer to maim and murder their own people, proliferators like North Korea less scared to proceed with spreading WMD, China and Russia ever more content to test their muscles in the vacuum left by the West.The West is not on an inexorable slide towards irrelevance.