Critics fear its real testament will be lasting damage to the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.
But the heat also burns a huge hole in the global non-proliferation regime.
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We have re-energized a global non-proliferation regime to deny the world's most dangerous people access to the world's deadliest weapons.
The President and the Prime Minister agreed on the importance of Iran strictly abiding by its obligations under the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.
This will put pressure on the non-proliferation regime in northeast Asia.
And later this spring, the world will come together in New York to discuss how we can build on this progress, and continue to strengthen the global non-proliferation regime.
What we have said, both leading up to and now in the aftermath of this launch, is that it was a provocative act that threatens regional peace and security and undermines the global non-proliferation regime.
This gives rise to the worry that the distinction between conventional and nuclear warfare would be blurred, leading to a lower threshold for a nuclear attack, and thus to the undermining of the global non-proliferation regime.
In the nuclear non-proliferation regime, it is the IAEA which ensures that nuclear energy is not misused for military purposes, and the director general has stood out as an unafraid advocate of new measures to strengthen that regime.
Mr. SIDNEY DRELL (Stanford University): We have to convince many nations that we are serious about our commitment to the non-proliferation regime which calls on us to reduce our reliance on the weapons, reduce our arsenals, not to resume testing.
But I believed then -- as I do now -- that the pursuit of that goal will move us further beyond the Cold War, strengthen the global non-proliferation regime, and make the United States, and the world, safer and more secure.
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Because whether it is threatening the nuclear non-proliferation regime, or the human rights of its own citizens, or the stability of its own neighbors by supporting terrorism, the Iranian government continues to demonstrate that its own unjust actions are a threat to justice everywhere.
Set aside for the moment as well just what the definition of "civilized nations" might be in the infamous Clinton lexicon -- to say nothing of his self-acknowledged proclivity for "fudging" findings on things like the systematic contribution to global proliferation being made by nations "in the non-proliferation regime" like China and Russia.
"We believe that such a step be not only in the interests of India but in the interests of reducing tension in the region and contributing to the world regime on non-proliferation, " Mr Cook said.
Like its Iranian friends, Kim Jong-Il's regime has concluded that there are little, if any, costs associated with violating its non-proliferation commitments.
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