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Obama ready to help a non-nuclear North Korea
Nov 19th, 2009 - Yahoo! News
SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said he was willing to help North Korea repair its economy and end decades of international isolation if Pyongyang stopped a cycle of threats and finally moved toward nuclear disarmament.
North Korea's nuclear plans cloud Obama in Seoul
Nov 18th, 2009 - Reuters
* Obama and Lee willing to keep pressure on Pyongyang * Both expect North Korea to take disarmament steps * Stalled bilateral trade deal could cause friction SEOUL, Nov 18 (Reuters) - U.S...
Analysis: Obama's China trip shows power shifting
Nov 18th, 2009 - AOL Money & Finance
BEIJING -President Barack Obama's first visit to China underscored a shifting balance of power: two giants moving closer to being equals. In this week's choreographed show of U.S.-Chinese good will...
Obama to Meet with Chinese Premier Before Departing China
Nov 17th, 2009 - VOA News
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Wednesday for a final discussion before leaving China for South Korea.
The president and Mr. Wen will hold a bilateral meeting and attend a working lunch together.
Mr...Obama, Hu show cooperation, but divisions remain
Nov 17th, 2009 - AOL Money & Finance
BEIJING -President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament and other global troubles...
Nuclear Disarmament videos from YouTube:
9:36Dr. Farhang Jahanpour on global nuclear disarmament under President Obama's leadership
TalkWorks 2009 Film Series: Prominent experts talk about the prospects for global nuclear disarmament under President Obama's new leadership.
1:27Matthew Yglesias - Commit to Global Nuclear Disarmament
Yglesias, an associate editor at The Atlantic, says that, On Day One, the next president should commit to working within the multilateral nonproliferation framework toward a goal of zero nuclear weapons worldwide ...
1:16:32Engaging China and Russia on Nuclear Disarmament
In 2008, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies initiated a study of Chinese and Russian perspectives on nuclear weapon policy, modernization, and disarmament in order to provide ...
4:14Obama, in Prague speech, outlines nuclear disarmament plan (highlights)
Key excerpts from US President Barack Obama's speech in Prague on nuclear disarmament, ahead of a EU-US summit later in the day in the capital of the Czech Republic.
Nuclear Disarmament from WikiPedia:
Nuclear disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated.
Proponents of nuclear disarmament say that it would lessen the probability of nuclear war occurring, especially accidentally. Critics of nuclear disarmament say that it would undermine deterrence.
The movement for disarmament has varied from nation to nation over times.
A few prominent proponents of disarmament argued in the earliest days of the Cold War that the creation of an international watchdog organization could be used to enforce a ban against the creation of nuclear weapons. This initial movement largely failed. During the 1960s, a much stronger popular movement against nuclear weapons developed, rallying primarily around the fear of nuclear fallout from nuclear testing.
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