Nuclear-Armed Foes Unite Against UN Call to Shed Their Bombs
- U.S, Russia, North Korea all join effort to defeat resolution
- It’s awkward for Obama, whose advocacy won a Nobel Peace Prize
A deactivated Titan II nuclear ICBM at the Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley, Arizona.
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For all the divisions among world powers, one concern unites Russia and the U.S., India and Pakistan, North Korea and Israel at the United Nations: keeping their nuclear weapons.
Those nuclear-armed states and the three others -- China, France and the U.K. -- worked to head off a resolution calling for a global conference to establish a binding “legal process” to ban the manufacture, possession, stockpiling and use of the weapons.