From Defense Talk:
BRUSSELS: The head of the UN nuclear watchdog urged NATO nations Tuesday to end their dependence on nuclear weapons, as the military alliance launched a re-think of its future direction.
"You have to decrease heavily your reliance on nuclear weapons," the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed El Baradei told NATO officials and experts in Brussels.
He said that by relying on a nuclear deterrant, NATO was sending the wrong message to the world that "we need to develop nuclear weapons".
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My Comment: I would have to presume that Mohamed El Baradei's comments are directed at the United States, since the rest of NATO has only a few hundred nuclear weapons in stock. Hmmmm .... if the new U.S. - Russian arms control treaty becomes reality, Russia will then have a larger stockpile .... but I do not hear El Baradei commenting that Russia should lower their stockpile.
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