Nuclear hypocrisy
Folllowing the end of the of WWII the United Nations was formed and one of its primary components was the Security Council whose tasks include the maintenance of international peace and security. The Security Council includes five permanent members who wre the great powers that were the victors of World War II— the United Sates, the Soviet Union (now represented by Russia), the United Kingdom, France and China. These permanent members can veto any substantive Security Council resolution which makes their own action more or less immune from UN interference.
It was these same five powers that were the first countries to develop atomic weapons
- 1945 United States
- 1949 USSR
- 1952 United Kingdom
- 1960 France
- 1964 China