Secretary Clinton on Nonproliferation

David Streeter — October 30, 2009 – 2:36 pm | Barack Obama | Foreign Policy | Terrorism Comments (0) Add a comment

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published on op-ed in Foreign Policy outlining President Barack Obama’s approach to nuclear nonproliferation. Obama and Clinton seek to:

... strengthen each of the three mutually reinforcing pillars of global nonproliferation—preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, promoting disarmament, and facilitating the peaceful use of nuclear energy. And to those three pillars, we should add a fourth: preventing nuclear terrorism.

Clinton presents the administration’s entire strategy in her article and it provides context to many of her and Obama’s recent actions. Clinton concludes:

This is an ambitious agenda. As the president has acknowledged, we might not achieve the dream of a world without nuclear weapons in our lifetime. But by making the reduction of nuclear threats one of our highest national priorities and by reaching out to a diverse group of international partners, we can help build and lead a unified international effort that will make us safer and stronger.

As President Obama said in Prague, the United States “cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it, we can start it.” Today, we have started, we are leading, and we remain committed to meeting this gravest of challenges.

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