Viva_Viet
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VN can enrich uranium on our soil (it mean VN can make nuke bomb secretly) while our neighbours and even JP can not.they cannot develop nukes for the next 50 years, not because of lack of technology but because of lack of sovereignity, Japan is a pawn of the US & the US will not allow Japan to be self sufficient in nuclear deterance, furthemore if the US allows Japan to have nukes then South Korea will also want to have its own nukes & at that point can any one expect the North Korea issue to ever be resolved?
Vietnam getting nukes will result in other neighboring countries also getting nukes.
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the major countries won't allow nuclear prolifration.
and even if every body does get nukes so what? in any case China would never use military force to solve disputes with it's neighbors, what they do use is economic pressure, just by reducing (not eleminating but reducing) the tourists to SK they were able to wipe 0.4% of growth from SK.
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U.S.-Vietnam Atomic Deal Said to Permit Uranium Enrichment
(Aug. 5) -Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, left, poses with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Global Nuclear Security Summit in Washington last April. Some experts have criticized the Obama administration for negotiating a civilian nuclear trade pact with Vietnam that could give uranium enrichment rights to the Asian nation (Jewel Samad/Getty Images).
The United States is in serious discussions with Vietnam on a civilian atomic cooperation deal that would give the Asian state uranium enrichment rights -- a possibility some warn could negatively impact the Obama administration's nuclear nonproliferation efforts in other parts of the globe, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (see GSN, June 15).
Informed U.S. officials say State Department negotiators have offered a comprehensive nuclear collaboration pact to Hanoi and have begun appraising congressional foreign affairs panels on progress in the trade talks. A deal would give Hanoi access to U.S. nuclear material and equipment.
Some lawmakers in Washington and nonproliferation specialists say the pact would permit Vietnam to enrich uranium on its own territory for reactor fuel -- something Washington has rejected in nuclear trade pact discussions with nations such as Jordan.
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty authorizes signatory nations in good standing with the pact's rules to produce their own atomic fuel. However, both the Bush and Obama administrations have demanded that nations pursuing atomic trade pacts with the United States relinquish their uranium enrichment rights. In addition to providing fuel for atomic power reactors, uranium enrichment can also be used to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon.
The United Arab Emirates gave up its domestic enrichment right in order to ink an atomic trade pact with Washington in 2009. Jordan, however, has insisted in negotiations it should be allowed to retain enrichment rights (see GSN, July 15).
https://www.nti.org/gsn/article/us-vietnam-atomic-deal-said-to-permit-uranium-enrichment/