Barack Obama's new offensive against nuclear weapons

[CHIMO]

Barack Obama yesterday announced a radical drive aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons, as the focus of his European visit switched from financial to geopolitical security.

"In Prague, I will lay out an agenda to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons," Obama said yesterday after arriving in continental Europe for the first time as president. "The spread of nuclear weapons or the theft of nuclear material could lead to the extermination of any city on the planet," he warned, adding that suspected rogue nuclear states, such as North Korea or Iran, may only be persuaded to abandon their quests if the big nuclear powers set an example.

"We can't reduce the threat of a nuclear weapon going off unless those that possess the most nuclear weapons, the United States and Russia, take serious steps to reduce our stockpiles," Obama said. "So we want to pursue that vigorously in the years ahead."

"The president is making the choices clear to Europe on Afghanistan. This is a moment of decision for Europe, and it should support the American strategy. There are very few places now to go," he said. "He is going to challenge Europe a lot. He is going to confront the anti-Americanism that is still very strong in some parts of Europe. I think he has taken away all the excuses that some could hide behind."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/04/barack-obama-nuclear-weapons

[bemildred]

1. Good.

Nukes are expensive and dangerous. The fewer there are, the more likely that multi-cellular life will survive on the planet.

[Posteritatis]

2. Every one of those things that goes away makes me a little happier (nt)

[Botany]

3. Is there no stopping that mad man?

:rofl:


"We can't reduce the threat of a nuclear weapon going off unless those that possess the most nuclear weapons, the United States
and Russia, take serious steps to reduce our stockpiles," Obama said. "So we want to pursue that vigorously in the years ahead."

God I love him.