claim: obama's position on nuclear arms is a "march toward global zero."
author: jon kyl
evidence_1: the four have created the nuclear security project to advance this agenda. organisations such as global zero, an international non-partisan group of 300 world leaders dedicated to achieving nuclear disarmament, have also been established. proponents of nuclear disarmament say that it would lessen the probability of ...
evidence_2: mar 24, 2014 ... this goal was announced in president obama's infamous prague speech in 2009 during which he committed the u.s. to work towards a world free of nuclear weapons. since that speech, leaders from around the world have joined president obama in endorsing global nuclear disarmament, including the ...
evidence_3: oct 5, 2009 ... as obama tries to shift u.s. nuclear policy toward zero against substantial domestic and international odds, he will have to reconcile the traditional cold ... in march 1997, the united states and russia agreed to restart negotiations relating to those weapons, but no concrete outcomes materialized. setting ...
evidence_4: and un secretary-general ban ki-moon have endorsed global zero, with obama declaring, “global zero will ... nuclear arms. these illustrative next steps are possible and desirable for five basic reasons. first, mutual nuclear deterrence based on the threat of nuclear retaliation to .... view directly threaten the u.s. homeland.
evidence_5: jul 17, 2015 ... the norwegian nobel committee highlighted his "vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons" in awarding obama the 2009 peace prize. ... cheney has a point that a world without nukes is obama's end-goal, a position that some conservatives say isn't realistic because the weapons cannot be ...