Some Clarifications Regarding the New Bolsonarist Delirium
Brazil has nuclear cooperation agreements with several countries: Germany, the United States, Argentina, Russia, etc. – and has the inalienable right to do so.
First, the NPT, to which Brazil is a signatory, ensures, in its Article IV, that all countries have the "inalienable right" to develop nuclear activities for peaceful purposes and to cooperate with each other for that purpose.
Article IV
1. Nothing in this Treaty shall be construed as affecting the inalienable right of all Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, without discrimination, and in accordance with Articles I and II of this Treaty.
2. All parties to this Treaty undertake to facilitate and participate in the widest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information concerning the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Parties to the Treaty in a position to do so shall also cooperate – individually or jointly with other States or International Organizations – with a view to contributing to the increasing development of the applications of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, especially in the territories of non-nuclear-weapon States Parties to the Treaty, with due consideration for the needs of developing regions of the world.
Thus, Brazil has cooperation agreements in the nuclear field with several countries: Germany, the United States, Argentina, Russia, etc.
Secondly, last year Brazil signed with China the "Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Atomic Energy Authority of China on Strategic Cooperation in Nuclear Technology Applications," which does not aim, as the Homo Sapiens dissent lied, to manufacture nuclear weapons, even because this is prohibited in our Constitution and in the various treaties we have signed on the subject, but rather to strategic cooperation in peaceful applications of nuclear technology, focusing on projects such as the Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor (RMB) and the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Center (CENTENA).
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