Message from Clay Dube

[clay dube]

I understand and generally agree with the points Dawn and others are making here. The way the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT) was supposed to work is that if you agreed to not build weapons, you'd get assistance in building power plants. The trade off was access to peaceful technology in exchange for giving up the possibility of developing weapons. North Korea withdrew from the treaty in the early 1990s.

Here's the treaty website (part of the UN site):
http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/npttreaty.html