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Originally Posted by Platapus
That is what we did to circumvent the NPT restrictions. We called it "Nuclear Sharing". After all sharing is caring. 
Since the NPT would immediately become void in times of declared war (both de jure and de facto. this is one of the key differences between a treaty and a convention), the US stationed nuclear weapons with foreign non-nuclear states but the permissive locks remained in US control.
To the US, this meant that they did not transfer nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states, but in emergency, permissive controls would be released to that state.
There is disagreement about whether nuclear sharing violates the NPT. |
If so, what is the problem with doing the same with ROK?