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President Barack Obama in a speech on Sunday, envisioned a \u201cworld without nuclear weapons,\u201d committing the US to complete nuclear disarmament. In his speech, delivered in Prague, Obama promised to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. His speech came only hours after a report that North Korea launched a \u201cmulti-stage rocket\u201d many fear could be capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. A day earlier Obama met with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to discuss a new bi-lateral treaty on reducing the two countries\u2019 arsenals. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, Russia and the United States together possess the majority of the world\u2019s nuclear weapons, with nearly 10,000 warheads deployed between the two. Obama\u2019s position was lauded by nuclear disarmament advocates around the world, including in Japan, the only country to have been struck with nuclear weapons. His position is a complete about-turn from the Bush administration, which had defied any attempt at nuclear disarmament. Even former President Clinton withheld the US\u2019s right to respond with nuclear force to chemical, biological, and even conventional weapons. <\/p>\nGUEST: Susan Gordon, Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability <\/em><\/p>\n
For more information, visit www.nuclearweaponsfree.org<\/a>, www.ananuclear.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n