IISS: Countdown to nuclear zero - on hold?

31 Oct 2011 09:57 AM

A Strategic Comment from the International Institute for Strategic Studies highlights how, 30 months after Barack Obama made a speech in Prague outlining his commitment to nuclear disarmament, many have been disappointed by the subsequent slow progress on the issue. 

Few tangible non-proliferation results have been achieved, making it difficult for the administration to convince both the other nuclear-weapon states and the sceptics at home that its approach is the right one.  The prospects for nuclear disarmament now appear rather bleak. 

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