http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/pr ... 166711.htm
ELEANOR HALL: While the Bush administration is issuing security alerts at home, in Geneva administration officials have told negotiators at a nuclear arms control meeting that the US will not support the verification provisions in a treaty to ban production of nuclear weapons material.
According to the Washington Post the US negotiators claimed a system of inspections and verification would be too costly and would not guarantee compliance with the treaty.
An eminent expert on arms control, though, says he finds the Bush administration's position on this treaty baffling.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Jul30.html
In a significant shift in U.S. policy, the Bush administration announced this week that it will oppose provisions for inspections and verification as part of an international treaty that would ban production of nuclear weapons materials.
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Administration officials, who have showed skepticism in the past about the effectiveness of international weapons inspections, said they made the decision after concluding that such a system would cost too much, would require overly intrusive inspections and would not guarantee compliance with the treaty. They declined, however, to explain in detail how they believed U.S. security would be harmed by creating a plan to monitor the treaty
