Western Civilization to Former Soviet Republics: save the nukes!

This is seriously from the WTF file.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/45361392511158129763

Under the treaty signed Friday, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan committed themselves not to produce, buy, or allow the deployment of nuclear weapons on their soil.

BUTthe United States, along with Britain and France, refused to attend the signing ceremony in the Kazakh capital, Almaty, citing a 1992 treaty that Russia signed with four of the five nations that Moscow claims could allow missiles to be deployed in the region.

Basically western civilization is trying to _BLOCK_ creation of the first nuclear-weapons free zone in the Northern Hemisphere. This is completely insane and basically amounts to Western Civilization basically having a death wish. There is no victory in a nuclear war and this amounts to saber rattling on a global scale. Do you think for a minute that this won't create more hatred of the US?