U.N. Calls On Bush To Give Up America's Nukes

Date:Thursday February 12, @08:24AM
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POSTED: 8:37 a.m. EST February 12, 2004
UPDATED: 10:24 a.m. EST February 12, 2004

VIENNA, Austria -- The head of the U.N. nuclear agency demanded Thursday that the world's nuclear powers do more to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, saying that he shares President George W. Bush's sense of urgency over the atomic black market. Mohamed ElBaradei, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, called on the United States and the other declared nuclear powers to relinquish their nuclear weapons as part of a global effort to make it impossible for nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of terrorists.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, called on the United States and the other declared nuclear powers to relinquish their nuclear weapons as part of a global effort to make it impossible for nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of terrorists. (Discussion: Give Up Nukes?)

"If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction," ElBaradei said in an op-ed piece published Thursday in the New York Times.

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In the piece, ElBaradei suggested that the United States is itself part of the problem of nuclear proliferation and urged Washington and the five declared nuclear powers to fulfill their obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to abandon their nuclear weapons programs.

"A fundamental part of the nonproliferation bargain is the commitment of the five nuclear states recognized under the nonproliferation treaty -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- to move toward disarmament," ElBaradei wrote.

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