More American Hypocrisy

At the moment, the US is making a lot of noise about blocking the production and spread of fissile materials used to make nuclear bombs. So you'd think that they'd be in favour of including a tight verification and inspection regime in a treaty designed to outlaw production of weapons-grade uranium, right?

Wrong.

Inspections, while fine for lesser nations like Iraq, Iran and North Korea, would "compromise key signatories' [i.e. the US's] core national security interests", and should therefore be removed from the treaty. Americans wandering around other countries' nuclear facilities is fine, but the thought of other people doing the same to the US is unthinkable.

And then they have the gall to complain that international arms control treaties are ineffective...