THE THIRD WORLD POSSESSION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS DESCRIBED IN PATERNAL TERMS. Hugh Gusterson MIT, ʻ99] Nuclear Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Feb, 1999), pp. 111-143 Third World nations are also often portrayed as children, and the United States, as a parental figure. The message is succinctly conveyed by one newspaper headline "India, Pakistan Told to Put Weapons Away" (Marshall a. Ben Sanders praises the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a means to "protect the atomically innocent" (1990:25). But what about when innocence is lost Steve Chapman, speaking of India and Pakistan, argues that "its fine to counsel teenagers against having sex. But once they have produced a baby, another approach is in order" (1998:21). New York Times editorials speak of US. "scoldings" of Pakistan and "US. demands for good Pakistani behavior from now on (1987a:A34). Some commentators fear that the US. parental style is too permissive and will encourage misbehavior by Pakistan's naughty siblings those who advocated an aid cutoff said the time had come for the United States to set an example for other would-be nuclear nations" (Smith 1988:106). Warning that American parental credibility is on the line, the New York Times says that "all manner of reason and arguments have been tried with Pakistani leaders. It's time for stronger steps" (1987a:A34).
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