Clinton Urges Treaty to Halt Production of Nuclear Bomb Material
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for an international treaty to bar production of plutonium and uranium for use in nuclear bombs, saying it was a crucial step to fulfilling President Barack Obama’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
“Nearly 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the world has more than 20,000 nuclear weapons. As I speak to you today, centrifuges around the world are spinning out more enriched uranium,” Clinton told a meeting of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament yesterday in Geneva, where she also held separate talks on the political turmoil in Libya and across the Middle East.