Proliferation And The Psychopathology of Prohibition
... Palestinian heritage. Gaddafy's regime ratified the NPT but worked around it. The quality of Libyan scientists capable of developing an explosive device was problematic. Ghaddafy shifted his stratregy to supporting terrorism and operations directed at Israel and its friends, including smuggling of nuclear technology. His regime subsequently shifted to providing havens for Islamist terror groups, causing more killing and more defense spending to counter it. Gaddafy’s Libyan “socialist revolution” preceeded the Islamic revolution in Iran by a decade. While both were driven by the theopolitics of Islam and by oil politics Great Britain, Soviet Russia and the United States all helped make ...