Proliferación Nuclear y Estado de Excepción (Nuclear Proliferation and State of Exception)
Keywords:
nuclear proliferation, state of exception, imperialism.Abstract
Desde el 11.09, es observable un recrudecimiento de las medidas y acciones en la denominada "guerra contra el terrorismo". La concentración de poderes por parte del ejecutivo estadounidense, la erogación o suspensión de diversas Leyes son indicativos, entre otros, de la instauración de facto de un Estado de Excepción que, además se encuentra empantanado en una dinámica de guerra altamente desestabilizadora, sobre todo en términos de la seguridad internacional.
Es un contexto en el que la carrera armamentista se viene acelerando, incluyendo su variable nuclear –en parte estimulada por el animado empuje a la nucleoelectricidad como supuesta alternativa viable al cambio climático. En flagrante violación a diversos acuerdos internacionales, pero sobre todo, en este caso, del “Tratado de No Proliferación Nuclear”, Estados Unido viene jugando la carta nuclear de tal modo que ya muchos consideran que, de seguir esta tendencia, estamos en camino hacia una eventual "nueva era nuclear". Y es que debido a la diversidad de actores, variables e intereses involucrados, tanto a nivel global como regional, el orden de probabilidades de una confrontación con armas nucleares cada vez más se incrementa; en especial cuando las posturas de diversos países, pero fundamentalmente de EUA, se tornan cada vez más totalitarias. El reloj del juicio final no en vano ha sido recientemente ajustado dos minutos más cerca de una guerra general termonuclear.
Since 11.09, it is observable an upsurge on the measures and actions meant for the progress of the so called “war on terrorism”. The concentration of power in the US Executive, the derogation of diverse laws or the suspension of civil rights, are aspects, among others, that indicate that in fact an State of Exception has been established. One that, what's more, it´s trapped in a highly and increasingly destabilizing dynamic of (petro)war in the Middle East which affects not only international consensus, but also international security.
It is a context in which the global arms race is deepening, including its nuclear variable. Accordingly, in flagrant violation of several international agreements, but mainly, of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the US is playing its ‘nuclear card’ in such a way that the advancement of a “new” nuclear era is already being considered. And, since there is a diversity of actors, variables and interests involved in both, the global and regional dynamics, the probability of a nuclear conflagration seems to grow more than ever as the posture of several countries (but mainly the one of US) becomes, in some degree or another, more radical and/or totalitarian. Not in vain the doomsday clock has been recently adjusted two minutes closer to a global thermonuclear war.
This paper assess the mentioned above by analyzing and evaluating the actual state of nuclear arsenals and its proliferation; the new nuclear doctrine of US and its war games, the business involved in the violation of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and the actual regional scenarios of nuclear instability such as the North Korean case and the extension of the US nuclear shield to East Europe.
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