A world free of nuclear weapons. Yes we can ?

Today, Sunday 06 April, President Obama addressed a crowd of 30 000 persons in the center of Prague, and launched an appeal to the world for a planet without nuclear weapons. He spoke about nuclear weapons as " the most dangerous legacy of the cold war". He said that he was refusing to be fatalistic about future proliferation of nuclear weapons in the world. He further announced something like that the USA were ready to show the example in dismantling their own nuclear weapons capacity. He also said that his government was ready to stop its antimissile shield plans ( that makes the Russians very nervous...!) if the government of Iran would accept to stop its own nuclear weapons plans. The same day Obama was speaking, North Korea, the most recent nuclear power launched a rocket to put a satellite in space. According to the western world, this was in fact a test of a new intercontinental missile. The world is becoming very dangerous and there is urgency to progress on this matter. This is what President Obama understood. In Prague he also spoke of the priority to fight against global warming. The use of nuclear energy, with other softer renewable energies such as the use of wind or of the sun, is one of the ways to produce energy with little effect on global warming. Is it possible to conceive a world with more nuclear reactors for producing energy and less nuclear weapons ?

A difficult question…..