The Nuclear Proliferation

During our oral presentation, we have shown to the class the stakes of the nuclear weapons proliferation. As we said "defence" is a huge subject to cover and through this writing, I'll continue to develop it by going into others major facts and ethical issues related to the subject.

For the next coming years, there are high probabilities that some countries continue to develop a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon program while the actual nuclear countries won't give up their chance to improve their deterrent weapons, increase their ballistic missiles accuracy and efficiency.

In that context, what could be the manifestations of such a race for arming or re-arming? What could do the international institutions to present or limit their effects? How will we deal with the various ethical issues that we will be confronted to?

I will try to answer to those questions by bringing some clear facts that could help us to understand the increasing importance that such issues will have in the coming years.

Thus in a first part, I will examine the manifestations and impacts over countries of such a race for arming. Then in a second part, I will highlight the gap of our international institutions to deal with those problems. In the third part, I will show that in such cases we would be confronted to numerous ethical issues that could become a raising problem.

I- The arming/ re-arming race

In the next coming years chances are that some countries try to develop various non conventional weapons while the actual nuclear countries continue to increases their deterrent weapons arsenal.

The demonstration from a country of its nuclear capabilities would continue to discredit the current non proliferation treaty. Such a country, who is not supposed to develop a nuclear program, could lead to a possible shift of the balance of power and increase the risk of conflicts leading to the nuclear escalation. That way countries without nuclear weapons, especially the Middle East ones and in North East Asia, could decide to get them elsewhere. For example from engineers and scientists such as Abdul Qadeer Khan, "father" of the Pakistanis bomb. The biological and chemical weapons can also constitute a substantial threat, in particular from the terrorists knowing their objectives to acquire light and furtive weapon that could have a spectacular impact over the citizens. Moreover, some countries continue to integrate