Iran and the International Law for the Development of Nuclear Weapons

Iran and the International Law for the Development of Nuclear Weapons

Introduction

Since the emergence of the Cold War, the nuclear weapons have played a major role in the international community, which has had a major influence in shaping up the behaviour of the states, along with their actions in relationship with one another. The Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous weapons that have ever been created by mankind; these weapons are built to insight fear inside the heart of the enemy, along with the defence of the boarder of the respected states. Throughout the twenty first century, the nuclear has become more and more deadlier, with the increase in their power and range to hit targets at long distance, all of this has raised the potential for a much greater devastation of the world. However, many nations of the World such as United States of America, United Kingdom have been working to find a solution to slow down the process of the development of Nuclear Weapons. A major breakthrough came in the year 1968 in the shape of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which calls for the secession of nuclear arms race, along with the abandonment of the nuclear weapons.

The Non-Proliferation Treaty is one of the most important treaties that have ever been signed concerning nuclear weapons; it binds the legal documents, which curtails the spread of the nuclear weapons. There are still some major challenges which the world has to face concerning nuclear weapons. For the proponents of the non-proliferation challenges are threefold: how to deal with states with nuclear weapons that are still not parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea), how to solve the dilemma apparent nuclear ambitions of Iran, and how to strengthen the treaty for the benefit of future generations. In any case, it is clear that it is of the utmost importance to ease tensions that force a nation to consider the possession of nuclear weapons as being in the national interest. Otherwise, states will tend to develop nuclear weapons programs to meet their needs for security. 

Discussion

Sovereignty of the State making the supreme body of power was considered a threat to the survival of humanity. The law of nations sought to impose barriers to sovereign states in their uncontrolled actions against weaker States and Peoples. In fact, the law of nations has failed other function than to save the forms of aggression of the strong against the weak, particularly when such aggression has been done in the name of civilization and peace, which naturally could not be understood only from Western and European perspective. The history of the last century was not simply the accumulation of aggression perpetrated against the countries around the world by the advanced industrial states, seeking to impose its sovereignty weaker nations of Asia, Africa and America, practice to the plundering of their resources and their human potential. European countries always found justification drawn from international law allowing ...