Obama in push for 'world without nuclear weapons'

BBC News ^ | 03/26/2012 | BBC News

[EnglishCon]

US President Barack Obama says he is pushing for "a world without nuclear weapons", making direct appeals to North Korea and Iran.

He also pledged to work with Russia and China, speaking ahead of a summit in Seoul aimed at reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism.

He emphasised the US's unique position to seek change but said "serious sustained global effort" was needed.

The meeting is being attended by representatives from some 50 countries.

[Jeff Winston]

And yes, a danger of course is what the poster in post 17 said. Unilateral disarmament isn’t anything we need.

[EnglishCon]

If it could be done perfectly, I would agree wholeheartedly. I, like you (I assume) grew up during the pants-wetting stage of the Cold War, and I remember the fear.

But, as you say, several sitting at the nuclear table cannot be trusted. And think back - has any system anywhere not been subverted or evaded in under a week?

[Scutter]

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

He actually believes Iran and N Korea can be trusted.

There is NOBODY that stupid on the entire planet. Therefore, one can only reach the conclusion that he is seeking unilateral disarmament of the US and our total defeat by nuclear annihilation.

[RC one]

Nuclear weapons have saved more lives than they have ever killed and that will continue to be true... until it isn’t.

[EnglishCon]

Agree totally. Once the genie was out of the bottle, MAD was the only logical way to prevent them actually being used.

It worked.

[infowarrior]

In fact, none but the western democracies and Israel, and maybe Japan and South Korea can be trusted, and those not terribly far.

I would, perhaps, be inclined to add India to that short list, as they demonstrated remarkable forebearance in the face of a direct act of war against their nation, in the attack on their national legislature some years back. A commendable act on their part, and indicates to me that they may be trusted with nuclear weapons, at least at present...

the infowarrior

[RC one]

It works until a rogue nation like Iran or NK gets their hands on nuclear weapons. Then the whole MAD philosophy breaks down. Crazy people with nukes changes everything.

[sheik yerbouty]

And their fiends the Chicoms and the Russkies..

[El Kabong1]

A rogue nation already has nuclear weapons: Pakistan.

[a fool in paradise]

Misinformation. He seeks a world where the United States has no nuclear arms. The rest of the world isn’t inherently evil as the US like. His mama and other red diaper doper babies told him so.

[JediJones]

They tried this once before. Didn't work out so well...

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[a fool in paradise]

Obama claimed he grew up in school doing duck and cover exercises. Except he wasn’t in the United States attending school when that was still the drill.

In the 1970s on the Gulf, we’d line up in an interior hallway and shield are heads in tornado drills but no ducking under a desk or anything.

The man is dishonest and has fabricated his history. He also claimed his parents came together because of what happened at the Selma march. Years after Barry was already born.

[EnglishCon]

That IS odd. we stopped duck and cover about 1968, IIRC. You guys stopped about the same time.

The guy just mires himself deeper and deeper.

[Cheerio]

The man is dishonest and has fabricated his history. He also claimed his parents came together because of what happened at the Selma march. Years after Barry was already born.

There is something seriously amiss in America - while most of the sheeple sit like drones in front of the 65" flat screen TVs worried about their brackets.

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[Carry_Okie]

Since the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was enacted, NONE of the nations that had weapons up to that time has disarmed with the exception of South Africa. Since then, only TWO peaceable nations has acquired nuclear weapons (India and Israel) and those because they were under direct, immediate, and proximate threat. Meanwhile the following despotic and dangerous nations, with no one threatening them, have acquired or are in the active process of acquiring nuclear weapons and delivery systems: North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, and (possibly) Venezuela. Iraq, Syria, and Libya were interdicted.

So, Zero, how'd that NPT thingy really work out?

I'll bet he thinks it's just peachy.

[Oztrich Boy]

In 1950 the United States was a nuclear superpower with just 38 deliverable weapons.

IN Obamas century 21, Iran, North Korea, Burma et.al. could be nuclear superpowers.

[Cincinatus]

Ronald Reagan wanted this too. The difference is that Reagan sought peace through strength whereas Obama wants us to unilaterally disarm.

[eak3]

what do you expect from a man that lets his 13 yr old go off to Mexico by herself for spring break. His kids are nothing more than political tools for him. Seriously though what kind of parents let a 13 yr old go off on by herself for a vacation, regardless of the location.

[spokeshave]

Translation: Obama emphasised HIS unique position to seek change...but said serious sustained global effort was needed....to position Him as the world leader.

Ha,.....that's what all the Birth Cert stuff is about.......President of the UN ...here we come