Not much of a story in U.S. media... How odd...

The world's nuclear powers are set to face calls to speed up disarmament as a conference on atomic arms control [a review of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] opens in New York.

On Sunday, thousands of anti-nuclear
protesters marched outside the UN.

(more from the bbc follows)

Many non-nuclear states want to concentrate on the five original nuclear weapon countries, saying that they had failed to carry out their disarmament commitments.

They say they are frustrated with the Bush administration's policies including the rejection of the nuclear test ban treaty, withdrawal from the anti-ballistic missile treaty and the development of new nuclear weapons.

[...]

"Achieving nuclear disarmament is not an option, but a legal obligation contained in the NPT," said Mexico's Luis Alfonso de Alba said.

yeah, well, c'mon, alfonso... you KNOW the u.s. doesn't recognize or abide by the same legalities that bind lesser nations...

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