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【标准美音 Editorial】03-16-2012
U.S. Committed To A Nuclear Free World

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Photo: REUTERS
Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance. (file)
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编辑：清泷夜心
HINTS：
Prague
President Barack Obama
Cold War
   START Treaty
Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement
PMDAIn his 2009 speech in Prague, President Barack Obama committed the United States to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons:
"The existence of thousands of nuclear weapons is the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War.   And as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act. We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it, we can start it."
Since then, the United States and its partners have taken a number of significant steps towards a world free of nuclear weapons, including the two agreements between the United States and Russia, the New START Treaty and the U.S.-Russian Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement or PMDA. The PMDA will result in the disposal of enough weapons-grade plutonium for many thousands of nuclear weapons.  Both agreements entered into force in 2011.   
The next important step in nuclear disarmament and which would contribute to further curbing nuclear proliferation, is a multilateral agreement to cease all production of fissile materials needed to manufacture nuclear weapons.