Treaty signed 40 years ago limited nuclear growth

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By BARRY SCHWEID
Associated Press
July 2, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A landmark treaty signed 40 years ago Tuesday by 61 countries is turning out to be more successful than predicted in keeping the nuclear weapons club small.

But as a State Department official cautioned at the time in a newly published memo, the United States has limited leverage to slow down the spread of bombs.

"I don't think we are reining in technology," said Richard Rosecrance, a Harvard adjunct professor who was on the State Department's policy planning staff in 1968 when he wrote the memo for Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "That's very difficult to do. But we may be able to rein in intensions."

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He called the treaty, which took effect March 5, 1970, "a key legal barrier to nuclear weapons proliferation."

I doubt sending a copy to Ahamadinejad would stop him from his intentions of building a nuclear device. So far he has thumbed his nose at everything thing else the UN and world community has thrown at him.