Time to read the Nobel speech again.

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I believe that force can be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the Balkans, or in other places that have been scarred by war. Inaction tears at our conscience and can lead to more costly intervention later. That's why all responsible nations must embrace the role that militaries with a clear mandate can play to keep the peace.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/obama-lecture_en.html

Subsequent events cast a chilling light.

http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1221

[Tx4obama]

1. Related...

A big part of why they gave Obama the Nobel Prize was because of his efforts on nuclear disarmament/non-proliferationhe - Obama began that while he was still a U.S. Senator. Also, President Obama donated ALL of the $1,000,000+ prize money to charity.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.

Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.

For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."

Oslo, October 9, 2009

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html

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2. I've heard that before. What exactly did he do for nuclear disarmament?

[Tx4obama]

3. I don't have all the links. But some info below

'Senator' Obama worked with Senator Lugar regarding nuclear proliferation - before he was president.

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President Barack Obama has taken an interest in safeguarding nuclear materials since at least his first year in the Senate. Obama's first foreign travel as a U.S. senator was with Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana in August 2005, when the two men visited nuclear weapons storage and dismantlement facilities in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan.

The next spring, Lugar and Obama authored a Senate bill authorizing a program to provide assistance to foreign countries to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The bill's provisions were incorporated into a House bill that passed later that year. It was signed in January 2007.

The Lugar-Obama initiative is modeled after a 1991 bill authored by Lugar and former Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia. The Nunn-Lugar program provided U.S. funding and expertise to the former Soviet Union to dismantle stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons

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Full article/updates here: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/382/secure-nuclear-weapons-materials-in-four-years/

And Rachel Maddow has done two or three segments/videos over the past several years regarding nuclear material that was rounded up in several countries and moved due to Obama's efforts.

Some more info here: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/dec/03/has-obama-reduced-nuclear-threat/
See the article and also the center column section where it says Related...

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4. Thanks for looking that all up.

Still, it seems a slender basis for a Nobel Peace Prize. Politifacts, foe example mainly mentions what he;s done in office, after the Prize was awarded. Prior to his election, Lugar seems to have been more involved with antiproliferation efforts.