Hello Bloggers!
This is a short video on the background of the nuclear summit taking place now:
Thoughts?
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Obama's Nuclear Security Summit
Hello Bloggers!
President Obama's 2-day summit on nuclear safety will take place tomorrow (Monday) in Washington DC. It is expected to be one of the largest global gatherings of world leaders (46 countries) after the UN charter was signed back 1945. The main focus of the summit is to discuss the safeguarding of nuclear weapons and plan preventative measures that will keep nuclear materials away from terrorists, who intend build to use them for mass destruction. The summit will also run with specific emphasis on Pakistan and India as the "U.S. administration is trying to balance its policies in Afghanistan with the rising ambitions of the two neighbours."
Last weeks President Obama signed a new treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear stockpiles of both U.S. and Russia. The U.S. is currently in the process of negotiating with the "four other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council on tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear ambitions," CNN reports. The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) put into place only allows recognized 'Nuclear Weapon States' possess such weapons.The Obama administration has made it clear, they will attack non-nuclear countries that are in compliance with non-proliferation agreements, with a generation of newly developed weapons.
All of the recent events and the summit tomorrow aim to meet one of Obama's objectives, which is "to mobilise a unified global effort against nuclear proliferation." Republicans among others have heavily criticized Obama's strategy as being "weak and troublesome."
Do you think Obama's strategy to fight the spreading of nuclear weapons destroys ambiguity of a nations' foreign policy, as uncertainty in foreign policy is viewed as being good by many scholars? Would you consider Obama's strategic efforts as being weak? Any thoughts?
Last weeks President Obama signed a new treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear stockpiles of both U.S. and Russia. The U.S. is currently in the process of negotiating with the "four other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council on tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear ambitions," CNN reports. The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) put into place only allows recognized 'Nuclear Weapon States' possess such weapons.The Obama administration has made it clear, they will attack non-nuclear countries that are in compliance with non-proliferation agreements, with a generation of newly developed weapons.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview, "that the new policy left Iran vulnerable to a U.S. nuclear attack because Iran refuses to comply with non-proliferation agreements."
All of the recent events and the summit tomorrow aim to meet one of Obama's objectives, which is "to mobilise a unified global effort against nuclear proliferation." Republicans among others have heavily criticized Obama's strategy as being "weak and troublesome."
Do you think Obama's strategy to fight the spreading of nuclear weapons destroys ambiguity of a nations' foreign policy, as uncertainty in foreign policy is viewed as being good by many scholars? Would you consider Obama's strategic efforts as being weak? Any thoughts?
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