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Nobel Prize Winner Warns World

Comment by Larry Ross, December 13, 2005

IAEA Chief, El Baradei said on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize:

"More than 15 years after the end of the cold war, it is incomprehensible to many that the major nuclear weapons states operate with their arsenals on hair-trigger alert"

Nuclear arsenals on "Hair- trigger alert" means the fate of the world is dangling "on the slenderest of threads" as President Kennedy warned in 1962. The world can be destroyed in hours "by accident, miscalculation, or act of madness" as Kennedy warned, or pre-emptive nuclear war if Bush implements his new nuclear strategy.

El Baradei was praised by the Nobel chairman for resisting U.S. pressures to find the hard nuclear evidence against Iran
they could use in their plans to justify attack.

That may not be enough to stop the U.S. and Israel from attacking Iran.

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Peace Prize Winner Urges Arms Cuts

U.N. Nuclear Chief ElBaradei Says Most Powerful Nations Must Act

By WALTER GIBBS, New York Times , December 11, 2005

OSLO, NORWAY - The world should stop treating the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea as isolated cases and instead deal with them in a common effort, the director-general of the United Nations' nuclear monitoring agency said Saturday in accepting the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.

The director-general, Mohamed ElBaradei, said a "good start" would be for the United States and other nuclear powers to cut nuclear weapons stockpiles sharply and redirect spending toward international development.

"More than 15 years after the end of the Cold War, it is incomprehensible to many that the major nuclear weapon states operate with their arsenals on hair-trigger alert," ElBaradei, 63, said.

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