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The passage of a UN Security Council resolution on nonproliferation and disarmament is the first evidence that the Obama administration's strategy of achieving an eventual "world without nuclear weapons" is paying off.

by James M. Acton
published by
BBC News
 on September 28, 2009

Source: BBC News

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In a special meeting presided over by President Obama, on September 24, 2009, the UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. It is the first evidence that the U.S. strategy for achieving an eventual “world without nuclear weapons” is paying off. In an interview on BBC News, James M. Acton says:

"What this resolution does is it starts to hammer out a 'nonproliferation for disarmament' quid pro quo. The nuclear-weapon states are going to do their part on moving towards a world free of nuclear weapons while the non-nuclear-weapon states are then being asked to do their part on preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons."

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