The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, has arrived in Oslo to pick up this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which he will share with the IAEA. We've got another prize for him...
The Nobel Peace Prize, founded on a fortune made from explosives, has gone to the agency whose job it is to promote nuclear power without promoting nuclear weapons, and the man who heads it. Anybody with that job probably deserves some kind of prize.
Greenpeace climbers scuppered Tony Blair's nuclear announcement by delaying the UK Prime Minister's planned pro-nuclear speech at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) annual conference.
"Even in an unclassified world this is not the kind of thing you want flying around the Internet," says Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita. He was talking about a document, yanked from a Pentagon website on September 19th, which outlines US nuclear warfighting plans, including the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons and the use of nukes in conventional war.
All the kings horses and all the kings men failed to reach agreement on reducing nuclear arms at the conclusion of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York. Now it's up to you and me.
The one international treaty dedicated to controlling the spread of nuclear weapons is deadlocked by the unwillingness of those countries which already have nuclear weapons to let the treaty do its job.
