Nuclear non-state reality

Amid fears of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, as Iran appears to be on track to develop its nuclear capabilities and other countries are certain to follow, is it still feasible to dream that nuclear weapons may one day be abolished altogether? Some experts still believe it is. Yet we are entering a new era where the poles of power as we knew them are shifting. I call this the post-nuclear exclusivity era, where the monopoly once held by the Big Five — the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Britain and France — no longer holds. Today you can add to that list Israel, India, Pakistan, North Korea and very possibly Iran. Libya admitted to having invested in trying to develop a bomb with North Korean help. But spooked by the US invasion of Iraq and nudged on by Muammar al- Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, Libya turned over