Sydney Weapons Summit Warns of Growing Nuclear Threat

Delegates attend the inaugural International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament meeting in Sydney (Photo AFP)

From Voice Of America:

A new non-proliferation group warns the world is on the brink of a massive increase in nuclear weapons. The global organization has spent the past two days in Sydney looking at ways to strengthen international agreements to halt the spread of nuclear arsenals. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports.

Leaders of the new International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament say the world had been "sleepwalking" on the issue of nuclear weapons for a decade.

They warn that a nuclear attack would dwarf the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.

The organization was first proposed by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after his June visit to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated by an American atomic bomb in 1945.

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Nuclear weapons debated in Sydney -- BBC
World facing nuclear threat: commission -- The Age