Israel’s nuclear arms programme was seen as the major obstacle to achieving a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East, declassified files from 1993 show.
An agreement to introduce such a zone could have curbed Iran’s nuclear ambitions which were then described as being at an “early stage”.
While the UK government supported a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East at this time, officials in the Foreign Office saw the “chief problem” to its implementation being Israel’s failure to sign up the UN’s Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
It amazes me that they haven’t made one. The first ones were made over 80 years ago and in the 1990s supercomputers we simulating them that are slower than todays desktops with a high end gpu. The basics are also on the internet.
