NUCLEAR-RACE 2LST

Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee said: "The challenge that we face --
India, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran now -- while you succeeded
in reducing the nuclearization of a number of States.
And while some other states have chosen to give it up
since then. We still have this very significant moment at this
point with respect to Iran and what the implications would be
for the Gulf, and a number of Arab states."
Testifying before the committee, the former Secretary
of State, Jim Baker said if the US and Russia have a good arms
control agreement that is being observed by both countries
that will help them in dealing with the problem with Iran in
the UN Security Council.
"That is extraordinarily important. I mean, Pakistan
and India and North Korea and Israel now all have the bomb.
And -- and some of them have it in -- in violation of
the NPT that they signed.
And some of them have it because they were never NPT
countries to begin with," Baker said. PTI