The world is starting to worry about The Bomb once more, but there is cautious optimism in the air. Just hours after North Korea launched [2]a missile into the Pacific, President Obama delivered his Palm Sunday speech [3]in Prague. Paul Carroll [4], Ploughshares Fund program director, commented, “A launch is very media-genic, but it’s been a little overblown.” While experts believe North Korea cannot deliver a nuclear weapon via missile, Carroll adds, “the real risk is them selling information and technology, because they haven’t been very good global citizens. So it’s important to engage – if we cross our arms and do nothing, it doesn’t get us anywhere, as the Bush administration found out.” Jonathan Schell [5]remarked, “It’s been a 180 degree change from the Bush administration, which makes for a much more hopeful picture.” He added, “My own inner-doomsday clock has gone back a minute or two.”
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/607
[2] http://ploughshares.org/news-analysis/news/north-koreas-missile-flight-failure
[3] http://ploughshares.org/news-analysis/news/speaking-prague-obama-outlines-plan-world-without-nuclear-weapons
[4] http://ploughshares.org/about-us/paul-carroll
[5] http://ploughshares.org/expert/120
[6] http://www.bigissuescotland.com/features/view/50