Loose nukes

In a time when every politician seems to be calling for a nuclear renaissance to solve climate change and the danger of "baby nukes", shouldn't non-proliferation be of the utmost concern to the US government? The recent disparities between various foreign negotiations certainly don't suggest the uniform strong policy that an issue of such concern would require. 

Iran announced today it will not scale back its nuclear activities to the ire of the West. I'm certainly not a proponent of any type of Iranian nuclear capability but I think we should enforce our stipulations evenly. We certainly haven't. In fact we've gone out our way to ensure India can continue to advance its nuclear capabilities by supporting a government that wants to be excused from the non-proliferation treaty. It makes more sense for India to be allowed nuclear weapons rather than North Korea or Iran. And to pretend India should not exercise its nuclear capabilities while hostile neighbor Pakistan does so would threaten the little remaining stability of the region.

There's no simple answer to a multi-faceted problem such as this and no such thing as a unilateral, one size fits all nuclear containment policy for the world. No matter the complexity of the situation, nuclear allowances cannot be dangled for economic gain and political promises. Nuclear proliferation has far too many implications to be bait in strategic US negotiations; it has worldwide effects and requires international cooperation and a singular compromised voice as such.