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Posted on Sep 24, 2009
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Nuclear powers include India, which has as many as 95 nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them.

A U.N. Security Council session led by President Obama has adopted a resolution calling for nuclear disarmament, focusing largely on measures aimed at halting weapons proliferation and lowering the risk of “nuclear terrorism.”

The BBC:

The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for nuclear disarmament, in a session chaired by US President Barack Obama.

The resolution calls for further efforts to stop the spread of nuclear arms, to boost disarmament and to lower the risk of “nuclear terrorism”.

It was the first time a US president had chaired a Security Council summit.

The resolution comes amid growing concerns among Western powers over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

“The historic resolution we just adopted enshrines our shared commitment to the goal of a world without nuclear weapons,” Mr Obama told the Security Council after the resolution was adopted.

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By Lois, September 28 at 11:28 pm #
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When is a nuclear weapons of mass destruction not politically destabilizing?

When nuclear weapons of mass destruction is in the hands of the chosen people,
then it is the chosens’ weapons of mass destruction.

The facts are that almost any use of nuclear weapons in that small part of the
world would poison most of the people living there and the land they once lived
on. The winds blow from east to west. A Holy Land indeed. Only mad men would
tell you there is a ‘good’ use for a weapon that kills the children of the weapon
wielder and the children of the targeted at almost the same rates, in due time.

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By NZDoug, September 25 at 2:50 am #

Is it true that Israel has 273WMD and that they are religeous NUTZ?

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By Commune115, September 24 at 7:47 pm #

Another example of Obama being the classic lawyer and media star, this will be good for a few, inspiring headlines and then in a few months reality will set in again.

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By Jean Gerard, September 24 at 5:38 pm #
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Number 1:  Work to prevent further proliferation
Number 2.  Increase pace of US-Russia agreements on reduction of present stockpiles.
Number 3.  Create incentives for other “nuclear nations” to reduce.
Number 4.  Strictly enforce measures to prevent development and sale of nuclear weapons technologies and materials..
Number 5.  Build international confidence in the possibiity of eventual total nuclear disarmament.
Number 6.  Reduce nuclear weapons’ role as a symbol of power.

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By ender, September 24 at 2:17 pm #

While I agree that we will continue to give Israel a pass since they would never willingly give up their nuclear weapons willingly at least Pres. Obama was genuine in backing down from placing the missile ‘defense’ shield in Poland.  Shrub wanted to reignite the cold war with Russia so we would have to spend trillions modernizing our nuclear arsenal once Russia began to reactivate theirs in responce to the ‘shield’ on the door step.

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By skulz fontaine, September 24 at 1:56 pm #

“...measures aimed at halting weapons proliferation and lowering the risk of
“nuclear terrorism.” Right. Is this to include India? Pakistan? Israel? South Africa?
Smoke and mirrors with a touch of hypocrisy on a grand scale.

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By Folktruther, September 24 at 1:27 pm #

Obama’s political trademark appears to be inspiring duplicity.  As he well knows, US policy is the greatest instrument of the spread of nuclear weapons.  By threatening the invasion of small couontries, it encourages them to obtain nuclear weapons to deter the threat.  And the US nuclear arsenal is by far the deadliest in the world.  The pentagon is constantly thinking of ways to blur the distinction between nuclear weapons and conventional weapons.

Obama’s policy, contining Bush’s, is to prevent adveraries from getting nucluer weapons while spreading them to their allies, notably Israel.  Although this largely deceives the American people, it does not deceive the world’s people.  the increasingly undeerstand the threat from the US homicdal plutcoracy. And Obama’s inspiring duplicity.

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