With US statesmen, Obama vows nuclear progress
0 Comments | AFP, May, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Flanked by some of America's most revered foreign policy grandees, President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to make the fight against spreading nuclear weapons a top priority of his administration.
Obama drew on the decades of hard-dealing foreign policy gravitas of ageing former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former defense secretary William Perry, and ex-senator and non-proliferation expert Sam Nunn.
The meeting, in the Oval Office, where each of the men wrestled along with presidents over the thorniest national security issues of their day, appeared to be an attempt by Obama to add political heft to his non-proliferation drive.
"I don't think anyone would accuse these four gentlemen of being dreamers," Obama said, as...
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