Conversation with colleague Henry Sikolsky, I'm John Batchel, about the meetings at the UN for weeks now

over the review of the Nonproliferation Treaty in effect since 1970. This is the sixth review every five years.

What is important here is the debate over enrichment, the ability to enrich

fissile material. Do you have the right as a signatory of the NPT? No, you do not, and Henry explains why.

Non-proliferation treaty being reviewed, is there an inalienable right to enrich fissile material or into fissile

material for a bomb? That includes the ability to take the spent rods out of a reactor and turn it

into plutonium for a bomb. Here's Henry. Much more tonight, much more in coming weeks.

This week in the opening, Christopher Yaw, who is the Assistant Secretary of State responsible

for non-pliferation issues, spoke and said, the Iranians have a lot of brass and galls to think

that they have a right to enrich.

He says there is no inalienable right to enrich.

It does not exist.

It is imaginary.

Now, missing in much of this is any explanation, certainly in the American case, as to why there is no inhalable right.

You know, I am certainly somebody who's listened to professors decades ago,

some of whom are no longer with us, make the case that the reason there can't be an

nailable right to make nuclear fuel is you cannot inspect it and have a reliable signal

of a possible diversion early enough to prevent the diversion from resulting in a bomb.

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