From today's Nobel Peace Prize announcement:
The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
I figure that adding the below image and article to your Facebook profile is a good way to help people understand why Obama won the prize (just click on the photo to do so).
The Guardian article is from September 24.
I haven't found other great articles describing the recent developments on nuclear weapons policy, but I would love if you could share any in the comments.
From the Guardian article:
The world took its first concerted step towards getting rid of nuclear weapons today when the UN security council voted unanimously for a resolution on disarmament and non-proliferation.
The resolution calls for states with nuclear weapons to continue disarming, to ratify a ban on testing them and to agree a treaty stopping the production of fissile material.
next year, we will be able to help the cause of peace by encouraging the Senate to ratify the test ban treaty. How incredible it is that we haven't done so yet!
Anyways, back to the article:
The US and Russia are due to sign a treaty in December bringing down the number of their deployed strategic weapons from more than 2,000 each to 1,500. Obama today promised much deeper cuts to follow. In January negotiations are due to start on a treaty banning the production of new weapons-grade fissile material. In May, the NPT comes up for review, and Obama hopes to persuade the US Senate to ratify the test ban soon afterwards. "The next 12 months will be absolutely critical in determining whether this resolution and our overall efforts to stop the spread and use of nuclear weapons are successful," Obama said.
Then there was also that whole breakthrough on Iran's nuclear policy.
For those that are interested, here's the text of the Security Council Resolution on the Maintenance of international peace and security: Nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament http://www.un.org/...