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Bush offers Emirates nuclear power by 2017 - they say it’s a possible route to the bomb
In the last days, Bush signed a deal with friendly Gulf state the UAE to “acquire nuclear technology if Iran pushes ahead”, possibly giving the Emirates a nuclear power programme by 2017. The Emirates minister made clear this was an arms race, and announced that importing nuclear technology for electricity does potentially give the UAE a chance to seek nuclear weapons. He added “If Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is going to collapse and Iran gets a bomb, then it will open the door for an arms race in the region,” forgetting to mention that the Bush administration policy was to make the NPT collapse. Congress has 90 days to reverse this offer says the AP story below
