When President Barack Obama this week repeated John F. Kennedy’s 1963 call for a “more practical, more attainable peace” in his pitch for the Iran nuclear agreement, absent was any mention of the broader mission both presidents proclaimed: “global disarmament.”
In 2009, Obama electrified much of the global nonproliferation movement by promising to work toward a “world without nuclear weapons.” That April, in Prague, Obama’s soaring language and concrete goals proved so convincing that the Nobel Committee “attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for” a nuclear-free globe when it awarded him the Peace Prize less than a year …read more
Source: European Voice
