December 2009:
FEATURED BLOGGER, Todd Fine on the Nobel Peace Prize: "Nuclear Disarmament must be seen as a tangible goal"
President Barack Obama began his Nobel Prize acceptance speech on December 10th with an acknowledgment of the controversy of his selection stating, "I am at the beginning, and not the end, of my labors on the world stage."
We must concede that rhetoric along with action, in particular in the area of nuclear weapons, played a key role in his selection. Indeed, the Nobel Committee’s press statement upon the award's announcement stated right away that they “attached special importance to Obama's...
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The Nuclear Weapons Convention: Just What the Doctor Prescribed for Today's Many Nuclear Headaches
by Emily Gleason |
As the Obama administration and IAEA pressure Iran to agree to a nuclear deal and North Korea to stop blowing stuff up, there are other nuclear headaches that could use some U.S. diplomatic finesse leading up to the NPT Review Conference in May 2010.
Headache #1: Pakistan, India, and U.S. policy
Pakistan and India have nuclear arsenals of at least 30 and 50 weapons respectively and neither are members of the NPT. With long simmering religious and ethnic tensions...
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