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Obama sets out plan for nuclear-free world
"To put an end to Cold War thinking, we will reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy and urge others to do the same,"
- President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama set out his vision for ridding the world of nuclear arms on Sunday, declaring the United States ready to lead steps by all states with atomic weapons to reduce their arsenals.
On a visit to the Czech capital, once a focal point in the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union, Obama pledged to cut the U.S. nuclear arsenal, to bring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty into force and to seek tough penalties for those that broke rules on non-proliferation.
"The United States will take concrete steps toward a world without nuclear weapons," he told a cheering crowd of more than 20,000 in Hradcanske Square outside the mediaeval Prague Castle.
"To put an end to Cold War thinking, we will reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy and urge others to do the same," Obama said, adding: "We will seek to include all nuclear weapons states in this endeavor."