As Barack Obama becomes president, worry about a global breakdown of the system to prevent nuclear proliferation is mounting among nonproliferation specialists and foreign policy strategists across the political spectrum. Warns Joseph Cirincione, "We're on the verge of a system collapse." But Obama will find surprising bipartisan support for making a historic policy shift that until recently would have been seen as little more than a liberal pipe dream: coming out in favor of the eventual abolition of all nuclear weapons."This is the moment," says Cirincione.
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[1] https://www.ploughshares.org/file/232
[2] http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/world/2009/01/15/nuclear-weapons-for-all-the-risks-of-a-new-scramble-for-the-bomb.html