ElBaradei: “Nukes Should Be As Taboo As Slavery”
Charles Johnson
Sat Dec 10, 2005 at 9:12 am PST • Views: 213
In a world where Iran is rushing to acquire nuclear weapons, the UN’s toothless nuclear watchdog is focused on disarming everyone else: ElBaradei says nuclear arms should be taboo as slavery.
OSLO (Reuters) - The world should work to make nuclear weapons as universally condemned as slavery or genocide, UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Saturday after receiving the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.
ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the world had 27,000 nuclear warheads and “to me, that is 27,000 warheads too many.”
“The hard part is how do we create an environment in which nuclear weapons — like slavery or genocide — are regarded as a taboo and a historical anomaly?” ElBaradei, an Egyptian, said in his acceptance speech.
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