UN General Assembly Hall Source: UN website (Photo from NTI)From The AP:
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Delegates preparing for a major conference next year to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty have agreed on an agenda, and some said the change in President Barack Obama's tone and emphasis was a key factor.
Obama's pledge last month to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons — a major reversal from former President George W. Bush's policy — has spurred hope that it and new U.S.-Russian cooperation will end a long deadlock on global disarmament efforts.
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My Comment: I should have commented on this on Friday.
The U.N. delegates responsible for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty may have agreed on an agenda .... but they are a long way from any form
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Delegates preparing for a major conference next year to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty have agreed on an agenda, and some said the change in President Barack Obama's tone and emphasis was a key factor.
Obama's pledge last month to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons — a major reversal from former President George W. Bush's policy — has spurred hope that it and new U.S.-Russian cooperation will end a long deadlock on global disarmament efforts.
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My Comment: I should have commented on this on Friday.
The U.N. delegates responsible for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty may have agreed on an agenda .... but they are a long way from any form
Obama's pledge last month to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons — a major reversal from former President George W. Bush's policy — has spurred hope that it and new U.S.-Russian cooperation will end a long deadlock on global disarmament efforts.
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My Comment: I should have commented on this on Friday.
The U.N. delegates responsible for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty may have agreed on an agenda .... but they are a long way from any form of implementation. The sad fact is that there are now many countries actively pursuing and/or examining the development and production of nuclear technologies .... technologies that can then be easily transferred to the production and development of nuclear weapons.
As to the idea of a nuclear free zone in the Middle East. Sigh .... not in my future grand children's lifetime.
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My Comment: I should have commented on this on Friday.
The U.N. delegates responsible for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty may have agreed on an agenda .... but they are a long way from any form of implementation. The sad fact is that there are now many countries actively pursuing and/or examining the development and production of nuclear technologies .... technologies that can then be easily transferred to the production and development of nuclear weapons.
As to the idea of a nuclear free zone in the Middle East. Sigh .... not in my future grand children's lifetime.